Benedict (Ben) Paul Hardman (born 4 August 1964) is an Australian politician. He was a
Labor Party member of 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 presiding ...
from 1999 to 2010, representing the electorate of
Seymour
Seymour may refer to:
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*Seymour, Victoria, a township
*Electoral district of Seymour, a former electoral district in Victoria
*Rural City of Seymour, a former local government area in Victoria
*Seymour, Tasmania, a locality
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Hardman was born in
Kiama,
New South Wales
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. He was educated at
St Peter and Paul Primary School and
St Gregory's College,
Campbelltown. He worked as a steward with the Wagga Wagga Leagues Club from 1982 to 1983, and as a clerk for the Wagga Wagga City Council from 1983 to 1986, before moving to
Victoria to study teaching at the
University of Ballarat. He graduated in 1989, and worked as a teacher at
Highlands Primary School before being appointed principal of
Flowerdale Primary School in 1996, a role he held until his election to parliament.
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'' Parliament of Victoria'' Retrieved on 4 May 2009.
Hardman was preselected as the Labor candidate for the state seat of
Seymour
Seymour may refer to:
Places Australia
*Seymour, Victoria, a township
*Electoral district of Seymour, a former electoral district in Victoria
*Rural City of Seymour, a former local government area in Victoria
*Seymour, Tasmania, a locality
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for the
1999 state election. Seymour was a Liberal-leaning seat that had been easily held by retiring Liberal minister
Marie Tehan
Marie Therese Tehan (; 19 June 1940 – 31 October 2004) was an Australian politician and lawyer.
Educated at Sacré Cœur School, Glen Iris, Victoria, Glen Iris, Melbourne and at the University of Melbourne, Marie O'Brien qualified as a lawyer ...
, and Hardman was not expected to win; however, amidst the Bracks government's surprise victory he emerged successful, eking out a narrow win on election day. He increased his majority sharply amidst Labor's landslide re-election in
2002
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, and was again easily re-elected in
2006
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. '' Parliament of Victoria'' Retrieved on 4 May 2009. He was defeated in 2010
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References
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1964 births
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Living people
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Federation University Australia alumni
21st-century Australian politicians