Garry Bruce West (born 19 January 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a National Party Member of the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...

from 1976 to 1995, representing the electorate of

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. He held several Ministerial positions in the Nick Greiner and then John Fahey

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-National coalition Government.

Private life

West was educated at Canobolas Public School and Orange High School in Orange, New South Wales.

Early years

West was one of the early members of the NSW Branch of the Young Australian Country Party, later to become the

Young Nationals (Australia) The Young Nationals is the youth division of the National Party of Australia, with membership open to those between 15 and 35 years of age. Young Nationals also have full party membership, and partake in state and federal conferences with equal ...

-NSW, elected as State Chairman (1972–1973) and Federal Chairman (1973–1976).

State politics

Following the retirement of Sir Charles Cutler, West, aged 27 years, sought and gained endorsement as the Country Party candidate for the seat of Orange and was elected at a by-election held on 14 February 1976 in a three-corned contest between the Country, Liberal and Labor parties after being forced to preferences. Less than three months later, West was reelected at the 1976 State elections, despite the

-National coalition losing to Neville Wran's Labor Party. West was re-elected at the 1978,

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Bicenten ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

and

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 ...

State elections. West served as Shadow Minister for Sport, Recreation and Tourism (1984) and Shadow Minister for Housing (1981–1984). In the Greiner-

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Liberal-National Government, West was appointed to the following: * Chief Secretary (1988 to 1990) *Minister for Tourism (1988 to 1991) *Minister for Lands and Forests (1990 to 1991) *Minister for Conservation and Land Management (1991 to 1993) *Minister for Energy (1992 to 1994) *Minister for Local Government and Cooperatives (1993 to 1994) *Minister for Police and Minister for Emergency Services (1994 to 1995) After the defeat of the Liberal-National coalition government in 1995, Garry West resigned causing a

by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, a bye-election in Ireland, a bypoll in India, or a Zimni election (Urdu: ضمنی انتخاب, supplementary election) in Pakistan, is an election used to f ...

. Subsequently,

Russell Turner Russell William Turner (born 12 May 1941), an Australian politician, is a councillor of the City of Orange Council, since 2012. Turner was previously a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Orange between 1996 and 20 ...

of the National Party was elected.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:West, Garry Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales 1949 births Living people People educated at Orange High School (New South Wales) People from Orange, New South Wales