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Jack Evans (Australian Politician)
John Gordon "Jack" Evans (28 November 1928 – 2 October 2009) was an Australian businessman and politician who served as an Australian Democrats senator for Western Australia from 1983 to June 1985. Early life Evans was born in the Wheatbelt town of Southern Cross He was the eldest of three sons born to Bill Evans, a locomotive fireman, and his wife Rita.Mendez T. ''Democrats founder recruited Don Chipp'' Obituary in ''The West Australian'', p. 69, 7 October 2009 He was educated at North Cottesloe Primary School, Northam High School and Midland Technical School. A fellow student at Northam was the talented athlete Shirley Strickland with whom he was to maintain a lifelong friendship. He obtained a position managing sporting and other recreational activities at the Railway Institute in Perth and, in 1953, married Margaret Michel. They had two children, a daughter and a son. He became an electrical goods retailer in Perth and later the UK before returning to practise in Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the Bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia, federal constitution as well as federal legislation and Constitutional convention (political custom), constitutional convention. There are a total of 76 senators: twelve are elected from each of the six states and territories of Australia, Australian states, regardless of population, and two each representing the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory and Norfolk Island) and the Northern Territory (including the Australian Indian Ocean Territories). Senators are popularly elected under the single transferable vote system of proportional representation in state-wide and territory-wide districts. Section 24 of the Constitution of Australia, Section 24 of the Constitution provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mergers And Acquisitions
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of a company, business organization, or one of their operating units is transferred to or consolidated with another entity. They may happen through direct absorption, a merger, a tender offer or a hostile takeover. As an aspect of strategic management, M&A can allow enterprises to grow or downsize, and change the nature of their business or competitive position. Technically, a is the legal consolidation of two business entities into one, whereas an occurs when one entity takes ownership of another entity's share capital, equity interests or assets. From a legal and financial point of view, both mergers and acquisitions generally result in the consolidation of assets and liabilities under one entity, and the distinction between the two is not always clear. Most countries require mergers and acquisitions to comply with antitrust or competition law. In the United States, for example, the Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1983 Australian Federal Election
The 1983 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 5 March 1983. All 125 seats in the House of Representatives and all 64 seats in the Senate were up for election, following a double dissolution. The incumbent Coalition government which had been in power since 1975, led by Malcolm Fraser (Liberal Party) and Doug Anthony ( National Party), was defeated in a landslide by the opposition Labor Party led by Bob Hawke. This election marked the end of the seven year Liberal–National Coalition Fraser government and the start of the 13 year Hawke-Keating Labor government. The Coalition would spend its longest ever period in opposition and the Labor party would spend its longest ever period of government at a federal level. The Coalition would not return to government until the 1996 election. Hawke became the second Labor leader after World War II to lead the party to victory from opposition, after Gough Whitlam in 1972 and before Kevin Rudd in 2007 and Anthony Albanese i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Crichton-Browne
Noel Ashley Crichton-Browne (born 2 February 1944) is a former Australian politician. He was a Senator for Western Australia from 1981 to 1996 and served as Deputy President of the Senate from 1993 to 1995. He was a member of the Liberal Party until his expulsion amid factional conflict in 1995. Early life Crichton-Browne was born on 2 February 1944 in the remote mining town of Wiluna, Western Australia. He was one of three children born to Margaret Bennett () and John Crichton-Browne. His father was an engineer at the Wiluna Gold Mine, while his mother worked as a nurse. Crichton-Browne received his early education at state schools, before boarding at St Ildephonsus College' in New Norcia and Scotch College, Perth. After leaving school he joined the state government's Department of Mines as a clerk based in Southern Cross. He later moved to Marble Bar where he was appointed mining registrar in 1968 at the age of 24. After five years in Marble Bar he moved to Perth where he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
1977 Australian Federal Election
The 1977 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 10 December 1977. All 124 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives and 34 of the 64 seats in the Australian Senate, Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal-National Party of Australia, National Country Coalition (Australia), Coalition led by Malcolm Fraser, in government since 1975, was elected to a second term over the opposition Australian Labor Party, Labor Party led by Gough Whitlam. While the Coalition suffered a five-seat swing, it still had a substantial 48-seat majority in the House. The Liberals retained an outright majority, with 67 seats. Although Fraser thus had no need for the support of the National Country Party, the Coalition was retained. Whitlam became the first and only person to contest four federal elections as List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition, Leader of the Opposition. He was unable to recover much of the ground ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton (9 September 1911 – 19 May 2002) was an Australian politician, farmer and airman who served as the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, prime minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971. He held office as the leader of the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party of Australia, having previously served as a Australian Senate, senator for Victoria. He was the first and only member of the upper house of the Parliament of Australia, Parliament to assume the office of prime minister. Gorton was born out of wedlock and had a turbulent childhood. He studied at Brasenose College, Oxford, after finishing his secondary education at Geelong Grammar School, and then returned to Australia to take over his father's property in northern Victoria (state), Victoria. Gorton enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940, and was a fighter pilot in Malayan Campaign, Malaya and New Guinea Campaign, New Guinea during the Second World War. He suffered severe facial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Birch
Louis Charles Birch (1918–2009) was a distinguished Australian biologist and theologian. His pioneering work had a profound influence on both scientific and philosophical thought. Birch served as Challis Professor of Biology at the University of Sydney for 25 years, and had visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley; and University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. As a geneticist, he specialised in population ecology. Birch significantly advanced the understanding of how weather disturbances influence animal populations and their distribution. His book ''The Distribution and Abundance of Animals'' (co-authored with Herbert G. (Andy) Andrewartha), became foundational in ecology. It influenced generations of ecologists by shifting focus toward external environmental factors in population dynamics. Birch was also well known as a theologian, writing widely on the topic of science and religion, becoming the first Australian to be awarded the Templeton Prize in 1990 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Oliphant
Sir Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant, (8 October 1901 – 14 July 2000) was an Australian physicist and humanitarian who played an important role in the first experimental demonstration of nuclear fusion and in the development of nuclear weapons. Born and raised in Adelaide, South Australia, Oliphant graduated from the University of Adelaide in 1922. He was awarded an 1851 Exhibition Scholarship in 1927 on the strength of the research he had done on mercury, and went to England, where he studied under Sir Ernest Rutherford at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory. There, he used a particle accelerator to fire heavy hydrogen nuclei (deuterons) at various targets. He discovered the respective nuclei of helium-3 (helions) and of tritium (tritons). He also discovered that when they reacted with each other, the particles that were released had far more energy than they started with. Energy had been liberated from inside the nucleus, and he realised that this was a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Chipp
Donald Leslie Chipp, AO (21 August 1925 – 28 August 2006) was an Australian politician who was the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats, leading the party from 1977 to 1986. He began his career as a member of the Liberal Party, winning election to the House of Representatives in 1960 and serving as a government minister for a cumulative total of six years. Chipp left the Liberals in 1977 and was soon persuaded to lead a new party, the Democrats who, he famously proclaimed in 1980, would "keep the bastards honest". He was elected to the Senate on 10 December 1977 and led the party at four federal elections. From 1983 it held the sole balance of power in the Senate. He retired from Parliament in 1986, having served a total of 25 years. Early life Don Chipp was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote Primary School, Northcote High School and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in commerce. After playing Australian rules football for Heidelberg, he played ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centre-Line Party
The Australian Democrats is a centrist political party in Australia. Founded in 1977 from a merger of the Australia Party and the New Liberal Movement, both of which were descended from Liberal Party splinter groups, it was Australia's largest minor party from its formation in 1977 through to 2004 and frequently held the balance of power in the Senate during that time. The Democrats' inaugural leader was Don Chipp, a former Liberal cabinet minister, who famously promised to "keep the bastards honest". At the 1977 federal election, the Democrats polled 11.1 percent of the Senate vote and secured two seats. The party would retain a presence in the Senate for the next 30 years, winning seats in all six states and at its peak (between 1999 and 2002) holding nine out of 76 seats, though never securing a seat in the lower house. Due to the party's numbers in the Senate, both Liberal and Labor governments required the assistance of the Democrats to pass contentious legislation. Ideo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
