Ernest Edward "Ernie" Bond (29 June 1897 – 25 July 1984) was an Australian politician. He was born in Heywood to rural worker Robert Bond and Sarah Jane Mullens. He attended

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and became a schoolteacher at

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and Heywood, and then head teacher at Greenwald and

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. On 20 July 1923 he married Ethel Thomas, with whom he had three children. A member of the Labor Party's Heywood branch from the age of seventeen, he won a by-election for the

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seat of Glenelg in 1924; he transferred to Port Fairy and Glenelg in 1927. In 1932 he was expelled from the Labor Party over his support for the

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; he was re-elected as an independent and was readmitted to the Labor Party in 1937. He served until his retirement in 1943. Subsequently, he was a dairy farmer until 1964, when he retired to

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. Bond died in Heywood in 1984.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bond, Ernie 1897 births 1984 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Independent members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians