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Electoral District Of Evelyn
The electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859. The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew. It now includes the suburbs and towns of Coldstream, Gruyere, Lilydale, and Wonga Park. The seat is usually safe for the Liberal Party but it was won by the Labor Party during their three landslide victories of 1952, 1982 and 2002. At the 2006 election Christine Fyffe Christine Ann Fyffe (born 10 December 1944) is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2018, representing Evelyn. Personal life Fyffe was born in Staf ... regained the seat for the Liberals, defeating Heather McTaggart. Fyffe was re-elected to the district during at the 2010 and 2014 Victorian state elections. Members Election results Graphical summar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Vallence
Bridget Vallence is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Parliament of Victoria, Victorian Parliament in November 2018 to represent the Electoral district of Evelyn, Evelyn District and is the Shadow Minister for Industry, Manufacturing, Innovation, Medical Research, and the Digital Economy since September 2021. Previously, Vallence was the Shadow Minister for Environment & Climate Change, Youth Affairs, and Equality between March 2020 and September 2021, and the Shadow Cabinet Secretary and Shadow Assistant Minister for Industry between December 2018 and March 2020. She has served on Parliament’s Public Accounts and Estimates Committee and is currently a Board Member of Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, VicHealth, a statutory foundation that promotes health and disease prevention. Prior to entering Parliament, Vallence worked for 16 years in the automotive industry as a procurement professional in both the manufacturing and retail sectors in Australian, Asi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Charles King
John Charles King (10 July 1817 – 26 January 1870) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), commissioner Public Works October 1859 to November 1859. King was born in Dromara, County Down, Ireland, the son of Henry King (died 1840), farmer, and his wife Martha Jane, ''née'' Henry. King was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and he sailed for Australia in 1838. In Sydney he was impressed with reports of the Port Phillip District and returned to Ireland, married Elizabeth Johnston, of Annandale, Scotland, and again sailed for Australia with his parents and family. King arrived aboard the ''Salsette'' in Melbourne in January 1841 where he became an auctioneer and commission agent in Elizabeth Street. Later he briefly served as government auctioneer. King was Town Clerk of Melbourne from the establishment of the municipality in 1842 till 1861, when he was sent to England as the agent of the Victorian branch of the Anti-Transportation Association. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Connell
Phillip Patrick Connell (2 November 1900 – 6 June 1980) was an Australian politician. He was born in Prahran to pickle manufacturer James Joseph Connell and Florence Evans. He attended a Catholic school in Oakleigh and became a pastry cook and grocer near Warburton. He married Susanna Louisa Bennett around 1924; they had five children. From around 1932 he was a life insurance agent. In 1952 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Evelyn. He was defeated in 1958. Around that time he married his second wife, Elsie Eveline Warren. From the 1970s he lived in Queensland, and around 1970 he married Marjorie Jane Bennett. Connell died at Healesville Healesville is a town in Victoria, Australia, 52 km north-east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Healesville recorded a population of 7,589 in the 2021 census. He ... in 1980. References 1900 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland Leckie
Roland John Leckie (30 December 1917 – 16 April 1990) was an Australian politician and judge. He was born in Hawthorn to John Leckie and Hattie Martha Knight. He studied at Scotch College and at Melbourne University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law. He served in the military from 1937 to 1942 and for the rest of World War II was a member of the Royal Australian Navy reserve. He was a solicitor from 1941 and a barrister from 1946. On 30 April 1949 he married Lesley Anne McCall, with whom he had two daughters. A vice-president of the Liberal and Country Party, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Evelyn in 1950, but was defeated in 1952. He was Crown Prosecutor from 1956 to 1965 and from 1965 served as a judge on the County Court A county court is a court based in or with a jurisdiction covering one or more counties, which are administrative divisions (subnational entities) within a country, not to be confused with the medieva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal And Country Party
The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP), and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. There was a previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged to form the LCP in March 1949. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (UAP) and the Australian Women's National League (AWNL). The UAP was a major conservative party in Australia and last governed Victoria between May 1932 and April 1935 under Stanley Argyle's leadership. Argyle lost premiersh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Australia Party
The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945. The party won four federal elections in that time, usually governing in coalition with the Country Party. It provided two prime ministers: Joseph Lyons ( 1932–1939) and Robert Menzies ( 1939–1941). The UAP was created in the aftermath of the 1931 split in the Australian Labor Party. Six fiscally conservative Labor MPs left the party to protest the Scullin Government's financial policies during the Great Depression. Led by Joseph Lyons, a former Premier of Tasmania, the defectors initially sat as independents, but then agreed to merge with the Nationalist Party and form a united opposition. Lyons was chosen as the new party's leader due to his popularity among the general public, with former Nationalist leader John Latham becoming his deputy. He led the UAP to a landslide victory at the 1931 federal election, where the party secured an outright majority in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Everard (Victorian Politician)
William Hugh Everard (28 Nov 1869 – 12 April 1950), Australian politician, was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Evelyn from 1917 until his retirement in 1950. He is the son of John Everard, who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly holding non-contiguous terms between 1858 and 1874. Everard was born in East Melbourne and was educated at Mornington Grammar School and Scotch College. He was a partner and eventually proprietor of the family firm, Everard Brothers, in business as tea merchants. Everard was Chairman of the Sir Colin Mackenzie Sanctuary, Healesville, from 1949–1950, President of Old Scotch Collegians and a founder and president of Old Scotch Football Club. Everard represented the Nationalist Party, the United Australia Party, the Liberal Party and the Liberal and Country Party The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nationalist Party Of Australia
The Nationalist Party, also known as the National Party, was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the latter formed by Prime Minister Billy Hughes and his supporters after the 1916 Labor Party split over World War I conscription. The Nationalist Party was in government (from 1923 in coalition with the Country Party) until electoral defeat in 1929. From that time it was the main opposition to the Labor Party until it merged with pro-Joseph Lyons Labor defectors to form the United Australia Party (UAP) in 1931. The party is a direct ancestor of the Liberal Party of Australia, the main centre-right party in Australia. History In October 1915 the Australian Prime Minister, Andrew Fisher of the Australian Labor Party, retired; Billy Hughes was chosen unanimously by the Labor caucus to succeed him. Hughes was a strong supporter of Australia's participation in World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Rouget
James Rouget (15 April 1866 – 10 June 1924) was an Australian politician. He was born in Yering to farmer John Rouget and Susan Le Page, both of whom were from Guernsey. He grew up in Wandin and became an orchardist, and on 28 November 1894 married Anne Blanksby, with whom he had seven children. He later worked as a secretary at the Evelyn Preserving Company, rising to the position of general manager. He served on Lillydale Shire Council from 1901 to 1922, with three terms as president (1906–1907, 1909–1910, 1918–1919). In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presidin ... as the member for Evelyn, but he was defeated at the next election in 1917. He moved to St Kilda in 1922 to become a valuat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commonwealth Liberal Party
The Liberal Party was a parliamentary party in Australian federal politics between 1909 and 1917. The party was founded under Alfred Deakin's leadership as a merger of the Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party, an event known as the Fusion. The creation of the party marked the emergence of a two-party system, replacing the unstable multi-party system that arose after Federation in 1901. The first three federal elections produced hung parliaments, with the Protectionists, Free Traders, and Australian Labor Party (ALP) forming a series of minority governments. Free Trade leader George Reid envisioned an anti-socialist alliance of liberals and conservatives, rebranding his party accordingly, and his views were eventually adopted by his Protectionist counterpart Deakin. Objections towards Reid saw Deakin take the lead in coordinating the merger. The Fusion was controversial, with some of his radical supporters regarding it as a betrayal and choosing to sit as independents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Hugh Cameron
Ewen Hugh Cameron (24 July 1831 – 27 September 1915) was a builder, store-keeper and politician in colonial Victoria (state of Victoria post 1901), member for Evelyn in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1914. Born in Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, Scotland, the son of Donald and Ann Cameron, Ewen Cameron arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and was engaged in the building industry with his brothers. He was a storekeeper at Anderson's Creek and Caledonia gold-diggings, a postmaster at Warrandyte Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Manningham local government area. Warrandyte recorded a population of 5,541 at the . Warrandyt ... in 1857 and farmed at Kangaroo Ground from 1860. Cameron was a member of the Castlemaine mining board and Eltham road board. He was the inaugural Eltham shire president in 1871 and president again later several times. Cameron was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Watkins (Australian Politician)
William or Bill Watkins may refer to: People Politics * William H. Watkins (politician) (1827–1888), an elected delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention * William Henry Watkins (1862–1924), British co-operative activist * William J. Watkins, Sr. (1803-1858), Black abolitionist and educator * William Keith Watkins (born 1951), U.S. federal judge * William Wirt Watkins (1826–1898), Arkansas politician Sports * Bill Watkins (baseball) (1858–1937), Canadian baseball manager * Walter H. Watkins, head coach of the Auburn college football program, 1900–1901 * William Richard Watkins (1904–1986), English cricketer * Billy Watkins (rugby) (c. 1910–1972), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1930s * William Watkins (footballer), English footballer who played for Burnley between 1898 and 1902 * Bill Watkins (cricketer, born 1923) (1923–2005), Welsh cricketer Other people * Billy Watkins (musician) * William Watkins (cleric), Welsh cleric * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
