Murray Lewis Byrne (29 August 1928 – 7 November 2012) was an Australian politician from the Liberal Party who served as a member 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 ...

for

Ballarat Province Ballarat Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1937 until 2006, located around Ballarat. Ballarat, along with Doutta Galla, Higinbotham and Monash Provinces was created in the expansion of the Legislative Co ...

from 21 June 1958 to 28 April 1976. He served as Victoria's Minister for Public Works from June 1970 to August 1972, and as Minister for State Development and Decentralisation, Tourism and Immigration from August 1972 to March 1976. Born in

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, Victoria, Byrne died in Ballarat on 7 November 2012 at the age of 84. He and his wife Adele had eight children.Obituary notice in The Age
Retrieved 20 September 2013

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1928 births 2012 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Australian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George 20th-century Australian lawyers {{Australia-Liberal-politician-stub