This is a list of members of the

Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Co ...

between 1982 and 1985. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1979 state election with terms expiring in 1985, while the other half were elected at the 1982 state election with terms expiring in 1988. : Labor candidate Tony Van Vliet was elected as the member for

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at the 1982 state election but died on 16 October 1982 before he could be sworn in. Labor candidate

Brian Mier Brian William Mier (21 February 1935 – 12 September 2009) was an Australian politician. He was born in Footscray in Melbourne to Edward Alexander Mier, a dispatch clerk, and Elsie Elizabeth, ''née'' Hunter. He attended local state school ...

won the resulting by-election on 4 December 1982. : In April 1983, East Yarra Liberal MLC Bill Campbell resigned. Liberal candidate

Mark Birrell Mark Alexander Birrell (born 7 February 1958) is a company director and a former Cabinet Minister in the Australian state of Victoria. Early life Birrell was born in Melbourne and was educated at Trinity Grammar. He studied at Monash Universit ...

won the resulting by-election on 7 May 1983. : In October 1984,

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National MLC Bill Baxter resigned to contest the federal seat of

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at the 1984 election. No by-election was held due to the proximity of the 1985 state election.

Sources

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(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851).

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