Francis Raymond Webster is a retired an Australian politician who represented the
South Australian House of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide.
Overview
The House of Assembly was creat ...
seat of
Norwood from 1979 to 1980 for the
Liberal Party
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His win at the
1979 state election was overturned by the
Court of Disputed Returns
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, which found that a Liberal Party advertisement in an Italian language newspaper, describing Webster as "your representative" ("''il vostro deputato''"), gave the false impression that Webster was the sitting member.
Red Silk: The Life of Elliott Johnston, QC
Penelope Debelle, Wakefield Press, 2011 Webster lost the subsequent by-election.
References
Members of the South Australian House of Assembly
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of South Australia
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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