John Norman Hyde (born 13 October 1957 in

Hamilton, Victoria Hamilton is a large town in south-western Victoria, Australia, at the intersection of the Glenelg Highway and the Henty Highway. The Hamilton Highway connects it to Geelong. Hamilton is in the federal Division of Wannon, and is in the Southern ...

) is a former politician who was a member of the

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for the

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. His father was

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and Claremont football player

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Political career

Hyde was elected to the seat in 2001 after the retirement of

Diana Warnock Diana Muriel Warnock (''née'' Robinson; born 3 October 1940 in Western Australia) is a former Western Australian radio broadcaster, women's rights activist and state politician. Warnock worked as a journalist with the Perth ''Daily News'', a ...

. He was shadow minister for Local Government, Culture and the Arts, Heritage, and Citizenship and Multicultural Interests. He lost his seat in the March 2013 election. Hyde was the first openly gay man to be elected to the Western Australian parliament. He had previously been

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of the Town of Vincent.

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