Mount Lawley is an
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in the
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of
Western Australia
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. Mount Lawley is named for the inner north-eastern
Perth
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suburb of
Mount Lawley
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which falls within its borders.
The seat was created at the 2007 redistribution from parts of
Yokine and
Perth
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, and has a long history in an earlier incarnation which existed from 1950 until 1989 as a reasonably safe
Liberal Party
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seat which was held for 22 years by
Ray O'Connor
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, who served as
Premier
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in 1982–1983, although is now a marginal seat. It falls within the
Electoral region of East Metropolitan
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.
As well as Mount Lawley, the suburbs of
Yokine,
Menora and
Coolbinia are part of the district, as are sections of
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and
Inglewood. Mount Lawley is bounded by Morley Drive, The Strand, Walter Road West, Eighth Avenue, Carrington Street, Central Avenue,
Swan River foreshore, Summers Street, Lord Street,
Walcott Street
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and
Wanneroo Road
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.
History
The original seat of Mount Lawley was created at the 1948 redistribution, at which three new metropolitan electorates were created to replace former northern and agricultural seats in Parliament. Its first member was elected at the
1950 election, and it was always a safe seat for the
Liberal Party
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. At the redistribution, the neighbouring seat of
North Perth became a
Labor
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seat with booths from the abolished
Perth
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electorate, so
Arthur Abbott
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, the Liberal member for North Perth since 1939, contested and won Mount Lawley. He was ultimately defeated in the
1956 election by the Liberal member for
Maylands,
Edward Oldfield, who had resigned from the Liberal Party to contest the election. In the
1962 election, following another redistribution, Oldfield returned to Maylands, whilst North Perth MLA
Ray O'Connor
Raymond James O'Connor (6 March 1926 – 25 February 2013) was an Australian politician who served as the premier of Western Australia from 25 January 1982 to 25 February 1983. He was a member of parliament from 1959 to 1984, and a minister in ...
won in Mount Lawley. He was to serve the district for 22 years, and the State as a minister in the
Court
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government and ultimately as
Premier of Western Australia
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from 25 January 1982 until 19 February 1983. He resigned his seat the following year, and
George Cash
Samuel Ernest "George" Cash (born 12 September 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented Mount Lawley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, and later was a ...
won the resulting by-election. The seat was abolished in the 1988 redistribution and divided between
Maylands,
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and
Perth
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.
The seat was recreated in the 2007 redistribution on similar boundaries to its original incarnation. The seat of
Yokine, which covered much of the original Mount Lawley's area, was held by Liberal minister Dr
Kim Hames
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until the
2001 election, when he was defeated by the Labor candidate and former Assistant Police Commissioner
Bob Kucera
Robert Charles Kucera APM (born 6 November 1944) is a former Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 2001 to 2008, representing the seat of Yokine. A high-ranking police officer before en ...
. After it became clear Kucera did not have Premier
Alan Carpenter
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's support, Kucera did not contest Labor preselection for the
2008 election, and journalist Karen Brown won the nomination unopposed. In June 2008, Kucera resigned from the Labor Party and expressed an intention to contest either
Nollamara
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or Mount Lawley as an independent, though he ultimately contested neither.
The
2008 state election saw Brown defeated by Liberal candidate
Michael Sutherland
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.
Members for Mount Lawley
Election results
References
External links
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{{Electoral districts of Western Australia
Mount Lawley
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
* Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, C ...