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Don Banfield
Donald Hubert Louis Banfield (16 September 1916 – 4 June 2014) was a trade unionist and politician in the State of South Australia. He was born in Plympton, South Australia and served with the RAAF during World War II. In 1951 he was secretary of the Boot Trade Employes' Federation. He was elected for the Labor Party to a Central district No. 1 in March 1965, held the seat through the 1975 elections, when the Legislative Council reverted to election by the State acting as a single electorate, and retired in 1979. He served as Minister for Health March 1973 to March 1979 and Chief Secretary June 1975 to October 1977; he briefly served as 42nd Attorney-General of South Australia from 15 March 1979 to 30 April 1979. He was involved with several charitable bodies, notably Orana Incorporated and the Blind Welfare Association of South Australia. Personal He married Doreen Biggs; they had sons Robert William on 17 June 1943 and Donald Keith on 31 October 1947; they lived at Ave ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Sumner
Christopher John Sumner AM (born 17 April 1943) is a former Australian politician. Sumner, who holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law and was a barrister and solicitor before entering politics, was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parlia ... for the Labor Party in 1975. In May 1979 he was appointed 43rd Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister of Prices and Consumer Affairs. In September he became Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council following the government's defeat. When Labor returned to office in 1982 he resumed his previous offices in addition to Ethnic Affairs. In 1983 he added Agriculture, Fisheries and Forests to his responsibilities, and in 1989 exchanged Ethnic Affairs and Consume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attorneys-General Of South Australia
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2014 Deaths
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1916 Births
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Australian Trade Unionists
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Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council
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Stan Bevan
Stanley Charles Bevan (14 October 1901 – 19 September 1987) was a politician in the State of South Australia. History Bevan joined the Liquor Trades Union aged 16, later joined the Timber Workers' Union, and was its president for four years. In 1941 he was elected secretary of the South Australian branch of the Miscellaneous Workers' Union, and in 1947 the Federal Secretary. He was elected president of the Trades and Labor Council in 1951. In the same year, he was elected unopposed as a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council for Central District No. 1, following the September death of Oscar Oates Edgar Alfred "Oscar" Oates (1 November 1889 – 2 September 1951) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1933 until his death. He was born at Kangaroo Flat, 5 km north of Gawle .... He retained the seat until May 1970. Family He was married and had three children. References {{DEFAULTSORT: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Duncan (Australian Politician)
Peter Duncan (born 1 January 1945) is an Australian Labor Party politician and one of the relatively few members of parliament to have served not only in both a state and national parliament but also as a minister in both cases. Peter Duncan was born in Melbourne and went to the University of Adelaide, where he studied law and was co-editor of the student newspaper '' On Dit'' in 1968. He was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly from the electorate of Elizabeth in the 1973 South Australian election, when he was 28. In state parliament Duncan served as 41st Attorney-General of South Australia from 1975 until 1979, and then as Minister for Health until the defeat of the Corcoran Labor government at the 1979 election. He resigned from state politics in 1984, sparking an Elizabeth by-election, to contest the seat of Makin in the 1984 Australian election, which he held at every election until defeated when Labor lost office federally in 1996 File:1996 Events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plympton, South Australia
Plympton is an inner south-western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The name is believed to have been given by Henry Mooringe Boswarva to a private subdivision in the area, naming after his home town in Devon, England. It was accepted as an official name for the suburb in 1944. Of irregular shape, the suburb straddles parts of Marion Road, Cross Road and Anzac Highway. To the east of Marion Road it is bounded by the former Holdfast Bay railway line (northwest), Gray and Beckman Streets (east), and the Glenelg tram line (south). To the west of Marion Road it is bounded Mooringe Avenue (north), Streeters Road and Whelan Avenue (west), and the Glenelg tram line (south). The remnants of the Holdfast Bay railway line can be found in Plympton's West Side cycleway. Plympton is in the City of West Torrens local government area; the South Australian House of Assembly districts of Badcoe and Morphett; and the Australian House of Representatives divisions of Hindmarsh and Ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of Australia
The Order of Australia is an honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service. It was established on 14 February 1975 by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, on the advice of the Australian Government. Before the establishment of the order, Australian citizens received British honours. The Monarch of Australia is sovereign head of the order, while the Governor-General of Australia is the principal companion/dame/knight (as relevant at the time) and chancellor of the order. The governor-general's official secretary, Paul Singer (appointed August 2018), is secretary of the order. Appointments are made by the governor-general on behalf of the Monarch of Australia, based on recommendations made by the Council of the Order of Australia. Recent knighthoods and damehoods were recommended to the governor-general by the Prime Minister of Australia. Levels of membership The order is divided into a general and a military divis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daw Park, South Australia
Daw Park is an inner southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the local government area of the City of Mitcham. The suburb is divided into two parts, with a smaller northern exclave separated from the larger southern part by a section of Colonel Light Gardens. The smaller northern exclave is surrounded by the suburbs of Colonel Light Gardens to the south and east, Cumberland Park to the north and Melrose Park to the west. The southern exclave is surrounded by Pasadena to the south, Melrose Park to the west, and Colonel Light Gardens to the north and east. Daw Park is part of the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Elder and the House of Representatives Division of Boothby The Division of Boothby is an Australian federal electoral division in South Australia. The division was one of the seven established when the former Division of South Australia was redistributed on 2 October 1903 and is named after William Boo .... Places of interest * Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
