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1970 Australian Capital Territory Election
The 1970 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 12 September 1970 to elect all eight members of the Advisory Council, the main elected representative body of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The election was conducted by the Commonwealth Electoral Office, with 18 candidates and four political parties contesting. Four members of the previous council were re-elected, with Labor Party leader Gordon Walsh receiving the highest first preference vote of 25.68%. Alan Fitzgerald, who was elected in 1967 as part of the satirical True Whig Party, was re-elected with 21.9% of the vote as the leader of the Australia Party, ahead of Liberal leader Jim Leedman. This was the final election for the Advisory Council, which was replaced by the Legislative Assembly (later known as the House of Assembly) in 1974 Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instant-runoff Voting
Instant-runoff voting (IRV; ranked-choice voting (RCV), preferential voting, alternative vote) is a single-winner ranked voting election system where Sequential loser method, one or more eliminations are used to simulate Runoff (election), runoff elections. When no candidate has a majority of the votes in the first round of counting, each following round eliminates the candidate with the fewest First-preference votes, first-preferences (among the remaining candidates) and transfers their votes if possible. This continues until one candidate accumulates a majority of the votes still in play. Instant-runoff voting falls under the plurality-based voting-rule family, in that under certain conditions the candidate with the least votes is eliminated, making use of secondary rankings as contingency votes. Thus it is related to the Runoff election, two-round runoff system and the exhaustive ballot. IRV could also be seen as a single-winner equivalent of Single transferable vote, sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra Liberals
The Canberra Liberals, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Australian Capital Territory Division), is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The party has been in opposition in the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, ACT Legislative Assembly for much of its existence, but held power with the support of minor parties and independents between 1989 and 1991 and again between 1995 and 2001. It is currently the only state or territory division of either major party to be unrepresented in the Federal Parliament. History The first Liberal branch in Canberra was formed in order to field a candidate in the newly created Division of Australian Capital Territory at the 1949 Australian federal election, 1949 federal election. The first meeting of the branch was held at the Albert Hall, Canberra, Albert Hall on 27 January 1949. The inaugural meeting of the Canberra women's branch was held on 29 June 1949. By 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Harper (politician)
Samuel Alan Harper (born November 9, 1957) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives The Alabama House of Representatives is the lower house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature (United States), state legislature of state of Alabama. The House is composed of 105 members representing an equal number of districts, with ... from the 61st District, from 2006 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party, having swapped from the Democrats in 2012. References Living people Republican Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives 1957 births People from Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Democratic Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives 21st-century members of the Alabama Legislature {{Alabama-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Fry
Kenneth Lionel Fry (8 November 192010 October 2007) was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Fraser, Australian Capital Territory for the Australian Labor Party, from 1974 to 1984. Early years Fry was born in Inverell, New South Wales, the youngest of seven children, and spent many of his early years around Bathurst. He completed a diploma at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College in 1938. During World War II, he served in the Second Australian Imperial Force from 1939 to 1945, including service in New Guinea, Borneo and South East Asia. He married Audrey Clibbens in 1946 and then worked in business and farming in the Bathurst district from 1947 to 1967. He joined the Australian Public Service in 1968 as an agricultural officer. He completed a BA at the Australian National University (ANU) in 1973 and a BLitt in 1981. Political career Fry was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council from 1970 to 1974. In 1973, he was elected as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gus's
Gus's cafe was a café located in Civic, Canberra, Australia. It opened in 1969 and later became the first outdoor pavement cafe in Canberra. It was one of the oldest and best known cafes in Canberra and one of the first European-style cafes in Australia. It had both outdoor and indoor dining areas. The cafe closed in January 2024, but is intended to be re-opened in several years. It will be at the base of the Garema Place Hotel, which will occupy the café's original space. History The cafe was established by Augustin 'Gus' Petersilka (20 July 1918 – 23 October 1994) who emigrated to Australia from Austria in 1951 and arrived in Canberra in 1962. Petersilka had difficulties with introducing this new style of dining to Canberra as it was against the regulations of the time for people to sit outside in a cafe or restaurant, and he had several well-publicised clashes with bureaucrats. A plaque on the pavement outside Gus's cafe marks the occasion of Gus Petersilka being mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick James McCauley
Frederick James McCauley (1905-1995) was an Australian trade unionist from the Canberra (Australian Capital Territory) and Queanbeyan (New South Wales) region. Early life Born in the Irishtown precinct of Queanbeyan on 30 August 1905, McCauley started his working life as a bricklayer. He served his apprenticeship on Australia's original Parliament House and subsequently worked on buildings in the Canberra and Queanbeyan area, including St Christopher's Church (now a Cathedral), St Paul's Church and the Embassy of the United States of America. Union career Prior to World War II, McCauley established the Canberra/ACT Bricklayers Union, taking on the role of Secretary. The union eventually merged with the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners to form the ACT branch of the Building Workers Industrial Union (BWIU), with McCauley elected as secretary. He served the BWIU until retirement in 1983. McCauley also held several roles within the Federal office of the BWIU, inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Pye
Thomas Wilbur Washington "Bill" Pye (3 September 1912 – 3 October 1996) was an Australian politician. Early life Bill Pye was born in Harden, New South Wales, on 3 September 1912. He was the 3 x great grandson of Third Fleet convicts John Pye (who arrived on the ''Britannia'') and Mary Phillips (who arrived on the ''Mary Ann'') and who were married in Parramatta in 1791. He served with the Australian Military Forces in World War II. After the War, he settled in Canberra with his family, and joined the Commonwealth Public Service. He retired in 1972. Political career Pye was appointed an Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council in 1960, but was not re-elected in the 1961 election. He was elected in 1964 and 1967. In the 1967–1970 Council, he was the Deputy Chair. He was appointed to the Advisory Council's successor the Legislative Assembly in 1978 following the death of Allan Fraser, and sat until 1979. He was then elected to the renamed H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Dalgarno
Anne Patricia Dalgarno MBE (6 July 1909 – 6 May 1980) was an Australian politician, nurse and community leader. Dalgarno was born Anne Patricia Smith in Wrentham, Suffolk, to farmer Henry Patrick Smith and Mabel Christina, ''née'' Edwards. Cardinal Patrick Moran was her uncle. She had governesses before attending the Convent of the Holy Family in Littlehampton, Sussex, and migrated to Western Australia with her family when she was sixteen. Smith trained at the Children's and Perth hospitals and became a registered nurse in 1933. She married Kenneth John Dalgarno, a civil engineer, on 1 July 1937 at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. They had two children before moving to Canberra in 1948. Dalgarno established the Nurses Club in 1954 and was a board member of Canberra Community Hospital (1954–59) and president of the ACT branch of the Royal Australian Nursing Federation. She unsuccessfully ran for the division of Australian Capital Territory as a Liberal in 1958 and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Black (politician)
Ian Howard Black (31 August 1943 – 13 July 2020) was an Australian politician. Black was an Independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council from 1970 to 1974. The Advisory Council was replaced with a Legislative Assembly in 1975, and Black was a member for Canberra from 1975 to 1979. Black was also an Independent candidate for the Australian Senate in the 1975 Federal Election for the Australian Capital Territory. He was an Independent candidate for the electorate of Molonglo in the 2001 Australian Capital Territory election for the ACT Legislative Assembly, which replaced the House of Assembly, which, in turn, had replaced the earlier Legislative Assembly of which Black had been a member. Prior to being a politician, Black was a police officer with the Commonwealth Police The Commonwealth Police (COMPOL) was the federal law enforcement agency in Australia between 1917 and 1979. A federal police force was first established in 1917, and operat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Pead
James Harold Pead (3 April 1924 – 15 November 2009) was an Australian politician. ACT politics He was an independent member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly for Canberra from 1975 to 1979, and then elected from the same electorate for the renamed House of Assembly from 1979 to 1982. He served as the first President of the Assembly from 1975 to 1979. Previously he had served on the predecessor body the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council from 1955 to 1974, acting as president from 1964. Pead helped establish the Yarralumla Progress Association in the early 1950s, which led to his involvement in the Australian Capital Territory Progress and Welfare Council, and was elected as a Progress candidate from 1955 until it dissolved in the mid 1960s. From 1967 onwards he was an Independent candidate. Federal politics Pead was also an Independent candidate in the 1970 Australian Capital Territory by-election. Personal life After retiring from pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Australian Capital Territory Election
The 1974 Australian Capital Territory election was held on 28 September 1974 to elect all 18 members of the Legislative Assembly, the main elected representative body of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). This was the first election for the Assembly, replacing the Advisory Council, although elected members did not start sitting until 1975. The election saw a swing of almost 20% towards the Liberal Party, while Labor lost around 6% of its vote compared to the 1970 Advisory Council election. Background As preparations were still being made for the granting of self-government to the ACT, the House served a largely advisory role, with most powers over the ACT still lying in the hands of the relevant federal minister through the life of the Assembly. Nine members were elected by single transferable vote proportional representation from each of the ACT's two federal House of Representatives divisions, making 18 in total. Independent members who vacated mid-term were replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Capital Territory House Of Assembly
The Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly was the main elected representative body of the Australian Capital Territory between 1975 and 1986, during which time preparation began for the granting of self-government to the Territory. The Assembly had a largely advisory role, with most of the power over the Territory being in the hands of the relevant federal minister. Background Three years after the seat of government was established at Canberra and after the opening of the first Parliament House in 1927, an appointed Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council, Advisory Council was established to administer the capital. In 1974 this was replaced by a fully elected Legislative Assembly, advising the Department of the Capital Territory. In 1979 this became a House of Assembly of 18 elected members, which was dissolved in 1986. In 1978 a referendum on self-government was defeated, with 68 per cent of voters recording a No vote. The federal Australian Labor Party, Labor go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
