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Boronia Province
Boronia Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was abolished progressively in 1992 and 1996 and was replaced with Koonung Province Koonung Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1992 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It replaced the abolished Boronia Province. It was a safe seat .... Members Election results References * http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregsearch.cfm Former electoral provinces of Victoria (state) {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council, President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979 Victorian State Election
The 1979 Victoria state election, held on Saturday, 5 May 1979, was for the 48th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect 81 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. The incumbent Liberal government led by Rupert Hamer was returned with a significantly reduced majority. Results Legislative Assembly Legislative Council Seats changing hands * Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats. * In addition, Labor retained the seat of Greensborough, which it had won from the Liberals in a by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben .... Post-election pendulum See also * Candidates of the 1979 Victorian state election Refer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Ashman
Gerald Barry Ashman (born 27 November 1941) is a former Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1988 to 2002, representing first Boronia and then Koonung Province. Ashman was a businessman before entering politics, working as a business consultant throughout the early 1980s. Prior to entering Parliament He was executive director of the StateChamer of Commerce and Industry Secretary of the Congress of Employer Associations Executive Director of the Small Business Association of Victoria A long-term member of the Liberal Party, he was chairperson of the Aston Federal Electorate Committee in 1984 and 1988, and convenor of the Small Business and Public Works Policy Committee in 1986 and 1988. In 1979 he unsuccessfully contested the state seat of Knox. In 1988, Ashman was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Boronia Province, which he held until its abolition in 1996, when he moved to Koonung Province Koonung Province ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1988 Victorian State Election
The 1988 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 1 October 1988, was for the 51st Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria to elect all 88 members of the state's Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council. The incumbent Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), Labor Party government led by Premier of Victoria, Premier John Cain (41st Premier of Victoria), John Cain Jr. won a third term in office, despite a swing against it, and only lost the seat of Electoral district of Warrandyte, Warrandyte in Melbourne's north-east. This was credited by commentators to a strong campaign targeting Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), Liberal leader and future Premier Jeff Kennett whose aggressive leadership style was still seen as a liability, as well as continuing instability in the federal Coal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean McLean (politician)
Jean McLean (born 3 October 1934) is a former Australian politician. McLean was born in London to industrial scientist Arthur Marsden Crosland and high school principal Pauline Berezovsky; she was home-schooled except for brief periods at public school. Having moved to Australia she joined the Labor Party in 1965, and became union director of the Prahran College of Advanced Education from 1974 to 1980. From 1981 to 1985 she was ACTU Arts Officer and was a federal conference delegate from 1976 to 1988. In 1985 she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council representing Boronia Province; when that seat was abolished in 1992 she moved to Melbourne West Province, which she represented until her retirement in 1999. McLean had a prominent and sometimes controversial career as a politician and as an activist in support of a broad range of high profile public causes. Jean came to public notice as convenor of the Save our Sons Movement, which from 1965 to 1973 campaigned against ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Victorian State Election
The 1985 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 2 March 1985, was for the 50th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect all 88 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. Since the previous election, the number of members of the Legislative Assembly was increased by 7 to 88. Lindsay Thompson, who led the Liberal Party to a defeat at the 1982 election with a 17-seat swing against it, resigned the leadership of the party on 5 November 1982. He was succeeded by Jeff Kennett. At the election, the incumbent Labor Party government led by John Cain Jr. maintained its electoral support, though the Liberal Party did increase the number of seats. It was the first time since Federation that a Labor government had been reelected in Victoria. Although the Labor Party lost seats in the lower house it gained a majority in the upper house picking up 4 seats to hold 23 up from 19 at the last ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)
The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victoria (Australia), Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The party forms the incumbent government in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as Premier of Victoria since 2023. Victorian Labor comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing (formally referred to as the State Parliamentary Labor Party) comprises all elected party members in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly and Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the Caucus#In Commonwealth nations, party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judith Dixon
Judith Lorraine Dixon, ''née'' Bowins (born 28 April 1945) is a former Australian politician. She was born in Melbourne to dairy farmer Cecil Bowins and Constance Chamberlain. She received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne and a Diploma of Education from Monash University, spending ten years working as a schoolteacher. In 1969 she joined the Labor Party, and was involved in the peace and nuclear disarmament movements. In 1982 she was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Boronia Province Boronia Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was abolished progressively in 1992 and 1996 and was replaced with Koonung Province Koonung Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existe ..., serving until her defeat in 1988. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Judith 1945 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1982 Victorian State Election
The 1982 Victoria state election was held on Saturday, 3 April 1982, was for the 49th Parliament of Victoria to elect 81 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 22 members of the 44-member Legislative Council. Lindsay Thompson succeeded Rupert Hamer as Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from liberal conservatism on the right to social liberalism on the left. For example, while the political systems ... leader and Premier on 5 June 1981, and John Cain Jr. replaced Frank Wilkes as Labor Party leader in September 1981. The incumbent Liberal government led by Lindsay Thompson was defeated by the Labor Party led by John Cain with a swing of 17 seats. The ALP returned to government in Victoria for the first time in 27 years. Results Legislative Assembly Legislative Council Seats changing hands *Members listed in italics did not rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gracia Baylor
Hilda Gracia Baylor AM (8 October 1929 – 23 May 2025) was an Australian politician, who was one of the first two women elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1979, the other being Joan Coxsedge. Biography Baylor was born in Brisbane. Her father was in the military and the family eventually settled in Victoria. She studied fine art and teaching, and taught in secondary schools until she married. Following her first marriage, she worked as a law clerk and managed one of the three law practices of her husband, Richard Baylor. She became interested in local government when she became aware of the lack of a kindergarten near her home. She was elected to the Healesville Shire Council in 1966, and was shire president from 1977 to 1978, becoming the first female shire president in Victoria. At the 1979 Victorian election, she was elected to Boronia Province in the Victorian Legislative Council as a member of the Liberal Party, one of the first two women elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Foley (Victorian Politician)
Kevin James Foley (born 9 August 1938) is an Australian politician and academic. He was born at Mayfield in New South Wales to Patrick James and Hazel Marjorie Foley. He was educated at Raymond Terrace and then at East Sydney Technical College before studying at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), where he received a bachelor's and master's degree in commerce. From 1954 to 1960 he served in Singapore for the Royal Australian Air Force, subsequently serving as a flight instructor from 1962 to 1968. He was an economics lecturer at UNSW from 1966 to 1968, when he commenced his PhD at the Australian National University, completing it in 1972. He worked as a consultant for the Defence Department and from 1974 to 1975 was a senior research economist with the Australian Wool Corporation. In 1976 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Liberal member for Boronia. He served until his defeat in 1982, after which he became chairman of the Industrial Research and De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koonung Province
Koonung Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1992 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It replaced the abolished Boronia Province. It was a safe seat for the Liberal Party for most of its history, but was won by Labor Party candidate Helen Buckingham in Labor's landslide victory at the 2002 state election. The electorate was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. It was located in the outer east of Melbourne. In 2002, when it was last contested, it covered an area of 134 km2 and included the suburbs of Blackburn, Boronia, Ferntree Gully, Mitcham, Nunawading, Rowville, Scoresby, Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
