Bill Wood (born 4 November 1935) is an Australian

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who was a member of the

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and later the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the

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as the

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member for

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in 1969, transferring in 1972 to the new seat of Barron River. He was defeated in 1974 by Country Party candidate

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. Wood was elected the first ACT Legislative Assembly in

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, re-elected to the 2nd Assembly in 1992, elected to represent Brindabella in the Assembly in

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The Great Hanshin earthquake str ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

and 2001 general elections. He did not contest the 2004 ACT general election. Wood was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2013 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to the community and the Legislative Assembly of the Australian Capital Territory". Wood's identical twin brother Peter Wood, and their father Les Wood also served terms in the Queensland Parliament. Les was also briefly the leader of the Queensland ALP prior to his death in 1958.

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1935 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Identical twin politicians Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 21st-century Australian politicians Members of the Order of Australia {{Australia-Labor-Queensland-MP-stub