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Results Of The 1984 New South Wales State Election (Legislative Council)
This is a list of results for the New South Wales Legislative Council, Legislative Council at the 1984 New South Wales state election. Results Continuing members The following MLCs were not up for re-election this year. See also * Results of the 1984 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly) * Candidates of the 1984 New South Wales state election * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1984–1988 References {{Results of New South Wales state elections, state=expanded Results of New South Wales elections, 1984 Legislative Council New South Wales Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. It is normal for legislation to be first deliberated on and passed by the Legislative Assembly before being considered by the Legislative Council, which acts in the main as a house of review. The Legislative Council has 42 members, elected by proportional representation in which the whole state is a single electorate. Members serve eight-year terms, which are staggered, with half the Council being elected every four years, roughly coinciding with elections to the Legislative Assembly. History The parliament of New South Wales is Australia's oldest legislature. It had its beginnings when New South Wales was a British colony under the control of the Governor, and was first established by the ''New South Wales Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Jakins
Judith Helen Jakins (née Penzer; born 8 February 1940, died 23 February 2023) was a former Australian politician. She was a Nationals member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1984 to 1991. The daughter of Robert Strahorn Penzer and his wife Kathleen, she was born in Bourke, New South Wales. She worked as a nurse and later a grazier, and served from 1976 to 1982 as secretary of the Nationals Bourke branch, moving to the Dubbo branch in 1983. She was chairwoman of the state electoral council for the seat of Broken Hill from 1980 to 1982, and was on The Nationals Party Central Council from 1980 to 1984. In 1984, she became the first woman elected to represent The Nationals in New South Wales when she won a seat on the New South Wales Legislative Council, which she held until 1991. After leaving the council, Jakins served on Dubbo City Council from 1991 to 1995. She was on the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales 1992–95 and the Board of the Royal Flyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deirdre Grusovin
Deirdre Mary Grusovin (born 1 September 1938) was a Labor member of the New South Wales Parliament for over twenty five years. Grusovin was born Deirdre Mary Brereton in Sydney, and is the sister of influential former politician Laurie Brereton. She was educated at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College in Kensington. Prior to entering politics, she was a librarian for the City of Randwick from 1957 to 1962 and then managed her husband's pharmacy business until 1978. Initially elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1978, she remained in office until 1990. During this time she was Minister for Consumer Affairs and Assistant Minister for Health 1986-88 and Minister for Small Business 1987–88. In 1990, she contested a by-election in Heffron, winning the seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly which had been vacated by her brother, who transferred to Federal Parliament. At the time of her transfer to the lower house, she was touted as a potential challeng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norm King
Norman Leo King (24 June 1919 – 4 August 1992) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1988. King was born in Junee, and was educated at Yanco Agricultural High School. He served as part of the AIF in World War II from 1940 to 1946, and was a prisoner of war at Singapore. After his return, he became a grazier breeding merino sheep. A member of the Labor Party, he was president of the Crookwell branch from 1971, and was secretary of the Rural Committee from 1979 to 1982. He also served on the electoral councils for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro and the state seat of Monaro. King was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ... at the 1978 state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Fisher
Marie Claire Fisher (9 June, 1931 – 17 August, 2008) was an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1988. Fisher was born Marie Claire Callinan in Paddington, New South Wales, the daughter of Frank and Claire Callinan. Following her father's abandonment of their family Marie spent time in various orphanages. She was educated at Darlinghurst Public School, Crown Street High School and Sydney Girls High School. Fisher's interest in politics and social justice was sparked by her membership of the Eureka Youth League and her relationship with Edna Ryan, a feminist and trade unionist, who was a friend of her mother. Fisher studied Arts at the University of Sydney, and then teaching at the Sydney Teachers College. In 1957 she began teaching English and history at Bourke High School. In 1960 she married Dugald Fisher, a local grazier, with whom she had three children. They lived on 'Galambo', a 24,300 ha pastoral pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Isaksen
Dorothy May Isaksen (née Shepherd; born 13 April 1930) is a former Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1988 and from 1990 to 1999. She was born in North Sydney, the daughter of Edward Chapman Shepherd, a foreman, and his wife Beatrice Taylor. She was educated at Catholic convents at Lavender Bay and Penrith before attending the Metropolitan Business College in 1945. She was employed in the Valuer General's Department 1946–50 and the Family Welfare Bureau 1952–55, working as a stenographer. In 1952 she married Neville Isaksen, with whom she had two daughters. Isaksen joined the Labor Party in 1955, and held various positions on the Youth Council Executive (1957–58), the New South Wales Central Executive (1970–71) and the Administration Committee (1976–79). She was President of the New South Wales Labor Women's Committee 1973–79 and Secretary (1977–79) and President (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barrie Unsworth
Barrie John Unsworth (born 16 April 1934) is a former Australian politician, representing the Labor Party in the Parliament of New South Wales from 1978 to 1991. He served as the 36th Premier from July 1986 to March 1988. Early years Unsworth, the son of Joseph and Olive Unsworth, was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, and educated in Sydney, at Kogarah High School. On leaving school at age 15, he was apprenticed as an electrical fitter. In 1955, aged 21 years, he married Pauline Hennessy and they subsequently had one daughter and three sons, one of whom has died; he and his wife have nine grandchildren, and two great grandsons. Unsworth was initially an Apprentice Electrical Fitter, then Electrical Fitter, Electrical Testing Officer and subsequently Sales Representative for Sydney County Council from 1950 until 1960. Unsworth had a brief period of military national service in 1953–1954 in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Union career In 1961, Unsworth became an orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Watkins (politician)
Peter Francis Watkins (born 15 September 1929) is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1987. Early years Born in Campsie to Jack and Daisy Watkins, he was educated at St Mel's Catholic School in Campsie and Christian Brothers College in Burwood. Career He became a trade union official and was eventually Secretary of the New South Wales Clothing Trades Union. Family life On 29 November 1952 he married Shirley May, with whom he had five children. Watkins had joined the Labor Party in 1952, and in 1978 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th .... He served until his resignation in 1987, when he was replaced by Tony Kelly. References 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Thompson (Australian Politician)
Joe Slater Thompson AM (25 July 1923 – 14 May 2005) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1974 to 1988. Thompson was born in Manly and attended Christian Brothers College there before studying at Harvard as a Churchill Fellow. He then became a member of the Administrative Staff College Association, having completed a senior administration course at Mount Eliza. Afterwards Thompson served in the RAAF from 1942 to 1946 as a pilot in the 460 Squadron, and on his return became involved in trade unionism. Thompson had joined the Labor Party in 1947 as a member of the Bellingen branch. He held various positions (including president, vice-president and secretary) in the Padstow, Belfield, Campsie and Bellingen branches, and was an executive member of the New South Wales branch from 1969 to 1970. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1974, serving until his retirement in 1988. Thompson died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), also known as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the members of the party caucus, comprising all party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. The party factions have a strong influence on the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus (and party factions) and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitutional requirement. Barrie Unsworth, for example, was elected party leader while a member of the Legislative Council. He then transferred to the Assembly by winning a seat at a by-election. W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clive Healey
Clive Healey (4 October 1918 – 16 August 1997) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1970 to 1988. Born in Emmaville, New South Wales, to miner Joseph Healey and Alice Stephenson, he was educated locally before becoming a boilermaker. He enlisted with the AIF in World War II, serving in the Middle East, New Guinea, Morotai and Borneo from 1941 to 1945. He married Gloria Kenning on 16 June 1941, with whom he had two children. After returning from the war, he joined the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party in 1949, and held various positions in the ensuing years, including fourteen years on the party's state executive. He was also a director of the Western Suburbs Hospital for many years. In 1970, a joint sitting of parliament elected Healey to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaine Nile
Elaine Blanche Nile (20 March 1936 – 17 October 2011) was an Australian politician who represented the Christian Democratic Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1988 and 2002. Nile was married to Fred Nile from 1958 until her death. Early life Born on 20 March 1936 in Waterloo in Sydney the daughter of a glass blower and a factory worker, she was a comptometrist from 1951 to 1958 and a police matron at Darlinghurst Court from 1977 to 1981. From 1981 to 1986 she was manager of the Australian Christian Solidarity Paper. She was also an organiser and lecturer at Gardener's Road High School in Mascot. Political career In 1958, she married Fred Nile, leader of the Call to Australia group (later the Christian Democratic Party) in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1981. Mrs Nile was elected to the Legislative Council for Call to Australia in 1988, and served until her retirement due to ill health in 2002. Her parliamentary career was marked b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
