Hugh James Hiscutt (born 10 July 1926) is an Australian former politician.

Life and career

Hiscutt was born in

Burnie, Tasmania Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban popu ...

on 10 July 1926. In 1983 he was elected to the

Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, ...

as the

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member for

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. He held the seat until he retired in 1995, at which point he was succeeded by his brother

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. His niece by marriage is

Leonie Hiscutt Leonie Anne Hiscutt (born 14 January 1959) is an Australian politician, who has been a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the division of Montgomery since 2013. Hiscutt was a farmer and businesswoman prior to entering Parliament. ...

, a sitting member of parliament. In the 2020 Queen's Birthday Honours, Hiscutt was awarded Membership of the Order of Australia in the General Division (AM) for 'significant service to the people and Parliament of Tasmania, and to the community of West Devon'.Queen's Birthday 2020 Honours List, 2020, Available from: http://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-06/QB2020%20Gazette%20-%20O%20of%20A.PDF. Accessed 8 June 2020.

References

1926 births Living people Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Order of Australia Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub