Kevin Myles Stephen Holland (30 March 1910 – 12 October 1996) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
North Melbourne
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to
Jack Holland and Agnes Mary Ryan. He attended Catholic schools and became a health inspector with the Victorian Health Department. During
World War II
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he served in the
Army Medical Corps in the Pacific. He was a delegate with the Miscellaneous Workers' Union and served as a
Labor
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* Childbirth, the delivery of a baby
* Labour (human activity), or work
** Manual labour, physical work
** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer
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member of
Melbourne City Council
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from 1951 to 1975, leading the party on council from 1955. In 1956 he was elected to the
Victorian Legislative Assembly
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The presiding ...
in a by-election to succeed his father in the seat of
Flemington. He held the seat until its abolition in 1967, when he retired from the Assembly. From 1975 to 1980 he was on the
Keilor City commission, and was commissioner of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. On 15 January 1964 he had married Annie Catherine Sheila Duffy. He was appointed a member of the
Order of Australia
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in 1983. Holland died in 1996.
References
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1910 births
1996 deaths
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Members of the Order of Australia
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Army personnel of World War II
People from North Melbourne
Politicians from Melbourne
Military personnel from Melbourne