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Candidates Of The Australian Federal Election, 1980
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1980 Australian federal election. The election was held on 18 October 1980. Redistributions and seat changes *A redistribution of electoral boundaries occurred in Western Australia. **A new seat, the notionally Liberal O'Connor, was created. *Tasmanian Senator Ken Wriedt (Labor) resigned from the Senate to contest Denison. Retiring Members and Senators Labor * Gordon Bryant MP ( Wills, Vic) * Clyde Cameron MP ( Hindmarsh, SA) * John FitzPatrick MP (Riverina, NSW) * Bert James MP (Hunter, NSW) * Keith Johnson MP (Burke, Vic) * Vince Martin MP (Banks, NSW) *Senator Reg Bishop (SA) *Senator Jim Cavanagh (SA) *Senator Ron McAuliffe (Qld) *Senator Justin O'Byrne (Tas) *Senator John Wheeldon (WA) Liberal * Bill Graham MP (North Sydney, NSW) * Tony Staley MP ( Chisholm, Vic) *Senator Gordon Davidson (SA) *Senator Sir Condor Laucke (SA) *Senator Peter Sim (WA) National Country * James Corbett MP ( Maranoa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
1980 Australian Federal Election
The 1980 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 18 October 1980. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 64 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal–NCP coalition government, led by Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, was elected to a third term with a much reduced majority, defeating the opposition Labor Party led by Bill Hayden. This was the last federal election victory for the Coalition until the 1996 election. Future Prime Minister Bob Hawke and future opposition leader and future Deputy Prime Minister Kim Beazley entered parliament at this election. Issues and significance The Fraser Government had lost a degree of popularity within the electorate by 1980. The economy had been performing poorly since the 1973 oil shock. However, Hayden was not seen as having great electoral prospects. Perhaps as evidence of this, then ACTU President Bob Hawke (elected to parliament in the election as the member for Wills) and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Reg Bishop
Reginald Bishop AO (4 February 1913 – 3 July 1999) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for South Australia from 1962 to 1981. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and held office in the Whitlam government as Minister for Repatriation (1972–1974) and Postmaster-General (1974–1975). Early life Bishop was born in Adelaide and left school at fifteen and became a clerk in the South Australian Railways at the Islington Railway Workshops. He was an official of the Australian Railways Union from 1937 until 1956 and Secretary of the South Australian Trades and Labour Council from 1956 until 1962. He enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force during World War II and served from February 1943 until January 1946 in Darwin and Borneo. Politics Bishop was an Australian Labor Party Senator for South Australia from the 1961 elections until his retirement in June 1981. After the election of the Whitlam government at the 1972 elections, he was Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Division Of Maranoa
The Division of Maranoa is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in Queensland. Maranoa extends across the Outback, Southern Outback and is Social conservatism, socially conservative. It is the largest electorate in Queensland and the fifth largest federal electorate in Australia, being three times the size of Victoria (state), Victoria. In the 2016 Australian federal election, 2016 and 2019 Australian federal election, 2019 federal elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation finished ahead of Australian Labor Party, Labor on preference count, reaching a peak in 2016 with 17.82% of the primary vote. Maranoa is a stronghold for the Liberal National Party of Queensland. The current Parliament of Australia, MP is David Littleproud, former Ministry of Agriculture, Minister of Agriculture and 2022 National Party of Australia leadership spill, current leader of the National Party of Australia, National Party. Geography Since 1984, federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
James Corbett (politician)
James Corbett, MBE (17 July 1906 – 3 March 2005) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the National Country Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1966 to 1980, representing the Queensland seat of Maranoa. Outside of politics he was a farmer and grazier on the Darling Downs. Early life Corbett was born on 17 July 1906 in Temora, New South Wales. He was educated at state and Catholic schools. Corbett was a grazier and wheat farmer in Queensland before entering politics, with properties on the Darling Downs near Miles and Dulacca. He was active in agricultural circles, serving as vice-president of the Graziers Association of South Eastern Queensland and on the executive of the United Graziers Association of Queensland. He also served as deputy chairman of the Murilla Shire Council from 1958 to 1967. Politics Corbett was a state vice-president of the Country Party. He was an unsuccessful preselection candidate prior to the 1961 federal election, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peter Sim
John Peter Sim, (21 June 1917 – 29 July 2015) was an Australian politician. Born in Colac, Victoria, he was a farmer in Western Australia before serving in the military 1941–1946. He was Vice-President of the Western Australian Liberal Party 1960–1962. On 26 November 1964, he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for Western Australia, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Senator Seddon Vincent. The Australian Constitution dictated that a special Senate election had to be held at the same time as the lower house 1966 election, but Sim was re-elected. He held the seat until his retirement in 1980. Early life Sim was born on 21 January 1917 in Colac, Victoria. He was one of twin sons born to Grace Maria () and John Percy Sim. His father had a farming and grazing property at Ondit near Colac. Sim was raised in Melbourne, attending a parish school at Murrumbeena and a local state school before completing his secondary education at Scotc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Condor Laucke
Sir Condor Louis Laucke, (9 November 1914 – 30 July 1993) was an Australian Liberal Party politician who served in both the South Australian House of Assembly and the Federal Senate, before becoming Lieutenant-Governor of South Australia. Early life Condor Laucke was the youngest son of a German immigrant, Friedrich Laucke, who had migrated to South Australia from Bremen in 1895. In 1899, his father established Laucke Mills at Greenock in South Australia's Barossa Valley. Laucke was educated at Immanuel College and the School of Mines in Adelaide, and after graduating, joined the family business, becoming Director and General Manager of what was now a large milling and stock feed enterprise in 1947. State politics Laucke was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly in the 1956 election, representing the Electoral district of Barossa as part of Sir Thomas Playford's Liberal and Country League government. He was re-elected in 1959 and 1962, and from 1962 to 1965 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gordon Davidson (politician)
Gordon Sinclair Davidson (17 January 1915 – 25 November 2002) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served as a Senator for South Australia. He was twice appointed to casual vacancies (1961 and 1962) and later won election in his own right, serving 16 years (1965–1981). He was a grazier and church administrator before entering politics. Early life Davidson's family were farmers at Angas Plains in the Strathalbyn area of South Australia. He was educated in the small Angas Plains School, then as a boarder at Scotch College in Adelaide. He worked on the family farm and was elected to the District Council of Strathalbyn, serving there from 1942 to 1950. He was also an elder and lay preacher at the Strathalbyn Presbyterian Church and joined the Liberal and Country League around 1940. He was initiated into the Freemasons in March 1941. Davidson travelled overseas to the UK, USA and Canada for almost two years from 1950. He returned in 1952 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Division Of Chisholm
The Division of Chisholm ( ) is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria (Australia), Victoria located in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. The Division was created in 1949 and is named after Caroline Chisholm, a social worker and promoter of women's immigration. The Division is an Inner Metropolitan area. The Division's current MP is Carina Garland of the Australian Labor Party. The constituency is considered a key Marginal constituencies, marginal constituency targeted by both Labor and the Liberal Party of Australia. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tony Staley
Anthony Allan Staley (15 May 1939 – 3 May 2023) was an Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he held the Victorian seat of Chisholm from 1970 to 1980 and served as Minister for the Capital Territory (1976–1977) and Minister for Posts and Telecommunications (1977–1980) in the Fraser government. He later served as national president of the Liberal Party from 1993 to 1999. Early life Staley was born on 15 May 1939 in Horsham, Victoria. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne. He completed the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne. Parliament Staley was elected to parliament at the 1970 Chisholm by-election, which followed the death of the incumbent Liberal MP Wilfrid Kent Hughes. He was the Member for Chisholm from 1970 to 1980 and was Minister for the Capital Territory from February 1976 to December 1977 in the Fraser Government and then Minister for Post and Telecommunications until his retirement from Parliament. Subse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Division Of North Sydney
The Division of North Sydney was an Australian Electoral Divisions, Australian electoral division in the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales from 1901 to 2025. On 12 September 2024, the Australian Electoral Commission announced that the seat would be abolished at the 2025 Australian federal election, with its electors redistributed to Division of Warringah, Warringah, Division of Bradfield, Bradfield and Division of Bennelong, Bennelong. History The Division of North Sydney was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the List of Australian electorates contested at every election, original 75 divisions contested at the 1901 Australian federal election, first federal election. It originally stretched as far as the Northern Beaches, though much of that area became Division of Warringah, Warringah in 1922. At the time of the 2015 North Sydney by-election, 2015 by-election, the Division of North Sydney had the nation's second-highest proportion (56.4%) of high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Bill Graham (Australian Politician)
Bruce William Graham, OBE (22 August 1919 – 18 February 1995) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives for over 20 years, representing the New South Wales seats of St George (1949–1954, 1955–1958) and North Sydney (1966–1980). Early life Graham was born in Sydney on 22 August 1919. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School before becoming an announcer on the ABC. He played rugby union with Eastern Suburbs RUFC, cricket for the Waverley Cricket Club, and was a member of the Tamarama Surf Life Saving Club. Military service Graham enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in March 1939. He spent time with No. 22 Squadron and No. 6 Squadron based out of RAAF Base Richmond. He joined the No. 2 Service Flying Training School at RAAF Base Forest Hill in August 1940. He was promoted flying officer three months later and then made flight lieutenant in January 1942. Graham was subsequently posted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
John Wheeldon
John Murray Wheeldon (9 August 192924 May 2006) was an Australian politician and journalist. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he served as an Australian Senator for Western Australia from 1965 to 1981. In the Whitlam government, he was the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation (1974–1975) and Minister for Social Security (1975). He was known for his views on Australian foreign policy and after leaving politics became an editorial writer for ''The Australian''. Early career Wheeldon was born in Subiaco, Western Australia and educated at Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia. He graduated in arts and law and then worked as a solicitor. He later served as President of the Western Australian Young Liberals, but resigned in protest at Robert Menzies' attempt to ban the Communist Party of Australia, declaring that it "seemed rather fatuous to call itself the Liberal Party and then introduce a bill like that." Political career At the 1964 h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
