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Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1981–1984
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 47th Parliament were elected at the Results of the 1978 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council), 1978 and Results of the 1981 New South Wales state election (Legislative Council), 1981 elections. One third of the council faced re-election at each general election, however as a result of the 1981 New South Wales referendum, 1981 referendum the maximum terms were extended from a maximum of nine to twelve years. The 14 members who had been indirectly elected in 1976 served an eight-year term and did not face re-election until 1984, the 15 members elected in 1978 did not face re-election until 1988, while the 15 members elected in 1981 did not face re-election until 1992. The President of the New South Wales Legislative Council, President was Johno Johnson. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1981-1984 Members of New South Wales parliaments by term 20th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of New South Wales, parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. Along with the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly, it sits at Parliament House, Sydney, Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. It is normal for legislation to be first deliberated on and passed by the Legislative Assembly before being considered by the Legislative Council, which acts in the main as a house of review. The Legislative Council has 42 members, elected by proportional representation in which the whole state is a single electorate. Members serve eight-year terms, which are staggered elections, staggered, with half the Council being elected every four years, roughly coinciding with elections to the Legislative Assembly. History The parliament of New South Wales is Australia's oldest legislature. It had its beginnings when Colony of New South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Sydney
The Division of Sydney is an Electorates of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales. The division encompasses Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD and surrounding areas to the south and west, as well as Lord Howe Island in the Tasman Sea. Since 1998 Australian federal election, 1998 its Australian House of Representatives, MP has been Tanya Plibersek of the Australian Labor Party, Labor Party. History The division draws its name from Sydney, the most populous city in Australia, which itself was named after former United Kingdom, British Home Secretary Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. The division was proclaimed at the redistribution of 21 November 1968, replacing the old Division of Dalley, Division of East Sydney and Division of West Sydney; it was first contested at the 1969 Australian federal election, 1969 election. The seat is a safe seat for the Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Hankinson
Frederick Charles Hankinson (21 June 1925 – 7 October 1997) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1984 to 1991. Hankinson was born in Auburn, New South Wales, and was educated locally at public schools. After leaving school he became a meatworker, and became active in the union movement. He joined the Labor Party in 1959 and was State President of the Australian Metal Industry Employees Union and an executive member of the New South Wales Trades and Labour Council. He was also president of the Auburn State Electoral Council for five years. In 1984, he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council after the resignation of Paul Landa; he served until 1991. Hankinson died at Camperdown in 1997. He was cremated at Rookwood Cemetery Rookwood Cemetery (officially named Rookwood Necropolis) is a heritage-listed cemetery in Rookwood, Sydney, Australia. It is the largest necropolis in the Southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1984 New South Wales State Election
Elections were held in the state of New South Wales, Australia, on Saturday 24 March 1984. The Labor government led by Neville Wran won a fourth term in office, though with a reduced (if still sizeable) majority and a 7% swing against it. As the two previous elections each saw the sitting Opposition Leader lose the election and failing to be elected to Parliament, the 1984 election saw Nick Greiner becoming the first Opposition Leader to lose an election and retain his seat since Pat Hills in 1973 Events January * January 1 – The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 14 - The 16-0 19 .... Independents Ted Mack and John Hatton retained their seats of North Shore and South Coast respectively. They were joined on the cross benches by a third independent and Bruce Duncan. Duncan, a former National Country Party memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Peats
Peats was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1973 to 2007. It was replaced by Gosford Gosford is a waterfront city at the northern end of Brisbane Water on the Central Coast in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Gosford Waterfront is known for its boating and scenic views on the shores of Brisbane Water. Gosford is ... for the 2007 state election. Members Election results References Peats 1973 establishments in Australia Constituencies established in 1973 2007 disestablishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 2007 {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Landa
David Paul Landa, QC (29 May 194124 November 1984) was an Australian politician. In public life, he was called "Paul Landa". He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1973 to 1984, and the member for Peats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1984. He was a government minister from 1976 to 1984. Early life and education Landa was born in St Peters in Sydney to Maurice and Fay Landa, who were of Irish/Polish descent and had migrated from Belfast. He was educated at Kogarah High School and Sydney Boys' High School in 1956–58, before studying for a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney. He became a solicitor in 1964 and was admitted to the bar in 1974. On 17 December 1968, he married Annika. He was Jewish. He was the nephew of Abe Landa, who was also a NSW Government Minister. Career In 1973, Landa was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor member. He became Minister for Industrial Relations in 1976, alth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Symonds
Elizabeth Ann Symonds (; ''née'' Burley; 12 July 1939 – 15 November 2018) was an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1982 to 1998. Biography Born in Murwillumbah, Ann Burley trained as a teacher at Armidale Teacher's College and the University of New South Wales. On 16 January 1965 she married Maurice Symonds, with whom she had five children. She joined the Labor Party in 1967. In 1974 she was elected to Waverley Municipal Council, becoming the municipality's first female Deputy Mayor in 1977. In 1982, Symonds was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor member following the resignation of Peter Baldwin, who was contesting the federal seat of Sydney in the upcoming federal election. She held her seat until 1998, when she resigned; the subsequent vacancy was filled by Carmel Tebbutt. She was a founder of the Australian Parliamentary Group on Drug Law Reform (APGDLR), a cross party group of 10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Australian Federal Election
The 1983 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 5 March 1983. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election, following a double dissolution. The incumbent Coalition government which had been in power since 1975, led by Malcolm Fraser (Liberal Party) and Doug Anthony ( National Party), was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labor Party led by Bob Hawke. This election marked the end of the seven year Liberal–National Coalition Fraser government and the start of the 13 year Hawke-Keating Labor government. The Coalition would spend its longest ever period in opposition and the Labor party would spend its longest ever period of government at a federal level. The Coalition would not return to government until the 1996 election. Hawke became the second Labor leader after World War II to lead the party to victory from opposition, after Gough Whitlam in 1972 and before Kevin Rudd in 2007 and Anthony Albanese i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian House Of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only 1910 Australian federal election, one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached. The House is almost always dissolved earlier, usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution alongside the whole Senate. Elections for members of the House of Representatives have always been held in conjunction with those for the Senate since the 1970s. A member of the House may be referred to as a "Member of Parliament" ("MP" or "Member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "senator". Under the conventions of the Westminster system, the Australian Government, government of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1978 New South Wales State Election (Legislative Council)
The 1978 New South Wales state election was the first direct election for the Legislative Council since the council was reconstituted in 1856 and the creation of the Legislative Assembly. This was the result of the 1978 referendum which also reduced the number of members from 60 to 43 and that provided that members would serve for 3 terms of the Legislative Assembly. Under the transitional arrangements, 28 members had been indirectly elected by joint sittings of the New South Wales Parliament. Single transferable voting, in a state-wide district, was used to fill the 15 seats open that year. This is the only Legislative Council election where no party other then labor, liberal or national held a seat. Results Continuing Members 28 members retained their seats in the council, with 14 of those members to retire at the next general election, held in 1981, and the remaining 14 members would retire at the following general election, held i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Baldwin (Australian Politician)
Peter Jeremy Baldwin (born 12 April 1951) is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1998, representing the seat of Sydney for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He served as Minister for Social Security in the Keating government from 1993 to 1996. He was previously a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1982. Early life Baldwin was born in Aldershot, England. His family moved to Australia in 1958. He attended Normanhurst Boys High School in Sydney, and later received a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts from Macquarie University. State politics Baldwin was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1982. In the 1970s he was prominent as a left-wing activist in the Australian Labor Party (ALP). In the early morning hours of 17 July 1980, Baldwin assaulted at his home in the nearby Sydney suburb of Marrickville. Pictures of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Freeman (politician)
Derek David Freeman (16 May 1924 – 2 February 2018) was an Australian politician and dentist. He was a Liberal member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1973 to 1981 and from 1981 to 1984. Freeman was born in Sydney. He attended Bellevue Hill Public School and Sydney Boys' High School in 1936-41, before studying dentistry at the University of Sydney, Toronto University and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Ontario. He served in the RAAF from 1945 to 1946. On 23 August 1950 he married Phyllis, with whom he had four daughters. He ran a private dental practice, but was a fellow of the International College of Dentists and the Royal Australian College of Dental Surgeons and a president of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Dental Association. In 1960 he joined the Liberal Party, and was Eastern Metropolitan Regional President in 1972. He was chair of the Fluoride Committee of the Australian Dental Association launched in 1958. Given fluoride's pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
