Charles Leo Batt (31 December 1928 – 27 October 2007),

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n politician, was a

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member of the

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from 1974 to 1976, then a member of the Legislative Council from 1979 to 1995. Born and raised in

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, Batt was first elected to the House of Assembly on 26 July 1974 representing the electorate of

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(now

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), where he served on the Public Accounts Committee, but was defeated at the next election on 11 December 1976. On 26 May 1979, he was elected to the Legislative Council, the Tasmanian upper house, representing the electorate of Derwent. From 1989 to 1992 he was the leader for the government in the Legislative Council, and he retired from politics on 27 May 1995. He received the National Medal in 1978. He was awarded the

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in the Australia Day honours in 2001, for community service through sports clubs, local government and the Tasmanian parliament, and received the Australian

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in the same year. He managed his family's sheep farming property in the Tasmanian

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, and died on 27 October 2007.Popular Labor politician Batt dies at 86

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, 27 October 2007.

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1928 births 2007 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub