Antony Hamilton Lamb (born 7 March 1939) is an Australian former politician. Born in

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, he was the son of Victorian Country Party politician

Hamilton Lamb George Hamilton Lamb (1 January 1900 – 7 December 1943) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1935 until his death in 1943, representing the electorate of Lowan for the Country Party. Early ...

. He was educated at the

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graduating on 14 August 1971 with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts and then the Victorian College of Pharmacy, becoming a pharmacist. In 1972, he was elected to the

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as the

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member for La Trobe. As a backbench Member in 1973 Lamb, together with fellow Labor Member David McKenzie, introduced the Medical Practice Clarification Bill which, if passed, would have allowed abortion in the Australian Capital Territory. The bill was defeated after a conscience vote on 10 May 1973 by 98 votes to 23. Lamb held the seat of LaTrobe until his defeat in 1975. In 1984 he returned to the House as the member for the new seat of Streeton, which he held until its abolition in 1990. Lamb then contested the seat of Deakin, but was unsuccessful. In the Australia Day Honors, 2006, Lamb was appointed{{Clarification, rank of the Order of Australia for service to pharmacy, to the Australian Parliament and to the community. In 2009, Lamb published his thesis in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy: {{cite thesis , type=Ph.D. , last=Lamb , first=Antony H. , date=2009 , title=Of measures and men: the Victorian Country Party, 1917 to 1945 , publisher=Swinburne University of Technology In 2015, Lamb and three other former MPs brought a case before the High Court of Australia, purporting that reductions to their retirement allowances and limitations on the number of "domestic return trips per year" under the Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002 was unconstitutional under S51(xxxi) of the Constitution of Australia. They lost the case in 2016, with the court finding that Parliament was entitled to vary the terms of allowances.{{cite news , title=Former MPs lose High Court challenge over entitlements , date=12 Oct 2016 , publisher=ABC News , url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/high-court-rules-on-entitlements-gold-pass/7924916

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