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Electoral District Of Geelong West
Geelong West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1985. It was located west of the city of Geelong, defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 as: Geelong West (along with Electoral district of Geelong East) was created when the four-member Electoral district of Geelong was abolished in 1859. Geelong West and Geelong East were abolished in 1877, replaced by a re-created 3-member district of Geelong. Geelong West was re-created in 1955. Members : Foott died 24 September 1868, replaced by Graham Berry in October 1868. :Johnstone and Berry went on to represent the re-created Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ... from 1877. Election results External linksElectoral districts of Geelong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Victoria
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria, Australia, Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 and the 2018 Victorian state election, 2018 state elections. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin MacDonald (politician)
Colin Douglas MacDonald (24 August 1890 – 2 September 1975) was an Australian politician. He was born in Balmain in Sydney to cabinet maker Colin MacDonald and Ellen Trinder. He was educated in Geelong but left school at the age of eleven to become a painter and later a tram driver. Around 1915 he married Alice May Hillier, with whom he had two sons. In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Geelong West Geelong West is a commercial and residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When Geelong was founded, the area was known as Kildare but its name was changed to Geelong West in 1875. The main street is Pakington Street. At the 2016 c ..., but he was defeated in 1958. MacDonald died in Geelong in 1975. References {{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Colin 1890 births 1975 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1955 Establishments In Australia
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first Nuclear marine propulsion, nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18–January 20, 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Taiwan from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Establishments In Australia
Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Under the rule of Alexandru Ioan Cuza, the provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia are united under the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire. It would be a principal step in forming the modern state of Romania. * January 28 – The city of Olympia is incorporated in the Washington Territory of the United States of America. * February 2 – Miguel Miramón (1832–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * February 4 – German scholar Constantin von Tischendorf rediscovers the ''Codex Sinaiticus'', a 4th-century uncial manuscript of the Greek Bible, in Saint Catherine's Monastery on the foot of Mount Sinai, in the Khedivate of Egypt and arranges for its presentation to his patron, Tsar Alexander II of Russia at Saint Petersburg. * February 14 – Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state. * February 12 – The Mek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Electoral Districts Of Victoria (state)
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden Shell
Hayden Kevin Shell (23 March 1937 – 1 November 2015) was an Australian politician. He was born in Geelong to Alick Humphrey Shell, a painter, and Florrie Coone. He attended local state schools and became a postmaster. From 1970 to 1974 he was state secretary of the Postal Clerks Union; he also joined the Labor Party in 1971. He was a councillor on Geelong West City Council from 1976 to 1982. In 1982 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Geelong West, moving to Geelong Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung language, Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in Victoria, Australia, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River (Victo ... in 1985. He lost his seat in 1992, but served on Greater Geelong City Council from 1995 to 1998. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Shell, Hayden 1937 births 2015 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayden Birrell
Hayden Wilson Birrell (1923 – 24 December 1994), was an Australian politician. He was born in Geelong to accountant Stanley Wilson Birrell and Alice Hayden George. He was educated at Chilwell and then at Geelong College, graduating at fourteen to become an accountant. He served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1939 to 1941 and in the Royal Australian Navy from 1941 to 1946, in which he was a petty officer. He subsequently returned to work for the State Savings Bank of Victoria, and joined the Liberal Party in 1950, partly motivated by the Labor Party's policy of bank nationalisation. In 1961 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong. He moved seats to Geelong West Geelong West is a commercial and residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When Geelong was founded, the area was known as Kildare but its name was changed to Geelong West in 1875. The main street is Pakington Street. At the 2016 c ... in 1976 and served until 1982. On 2 Jun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Trezise
Neil Benjamin "Nipper" Trezise (8 February 1931 – 20 August 2006) was an Australian rules footballer who represented in the Victorian Football League and later a politician who represented the Labor Party in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was of Cornish descent. Football career Originally from Redan, Victoria, Trezise played 185 games for 272 goals between 1949 and 1959 at the Geelong Football Club in the VFL. He played in the 1951 and 1952 premiership sides, and in the second round of 1953 kicked eight goals against a champion Footscray defence, who would concede fewer points per match than any other team between 1919 and 2019. Following his retirement in 1959 (a year in which he was Geelong captain), Trezise continued his service to the club, coaching the reserves side, and then becoming club president in 1974. Commonly called "Nipper", Trezise acquired the nickname as a young recruit at Geelong. Political career After leaving football, Trezise pursued a pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Victorian Division)
The Victorian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), and branded as Liberal Victoria, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. The party sits on the Centre-right politics, centre-right to Right-wing politics, right-wing of the Politics of Australia, Australian political spectrum, and is currently led by Brad Battin. There was a #Old Liberal Party Victorian Division, previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party formed in March 1945, but it ceased to exist when the LCP was established four years later. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Gillett
Robert Max Gillett (23 July 1927 – 24 October 2011) was an Australian politician. He was born in Geelong, the son of farmer R. A. Gillett. He attended Geelong College and became a small business owner. In 1956 he became a farmer, and on 18 February 1956 he married Elizabeth Margot Simmons, with whom he had four children. In 1958 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal and Country Party member for Geelong West Geelong West is a commercial and residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. When Geelong was founded, the area was known as Kildare but its name was changed to Geelong West in 1875. The main street is Pakington Street. At the 2016 c .... He served until his defeat in 1964. Gillett returned to farming after politics and died in Geelong in 2011. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gillett, Robert 1927 births 2011 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Asse ... [...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] |
Robert De Bruce Johnstone
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' () "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown, godlike" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin.Reaney & Wilson, 1997. ''Dictionary of English Surnames''. Oxford University Press. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe, the name entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
