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Lower North Province
The Lower North Province was a two-member electoral province of the Western Australian Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, located in the central and northern parts of the state. For nearly its entire existence, it had the lowest enrolment of any province in the Council. It was one of several rural seats created following the enactment of the ''Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963'', and became effective on 22 May 1965. In 1989, the province was abolished by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and was absorbed into the Electoral region of Mining and Pastoral, Mining and Pastoral region under the new proportional voting system. Geography The province was made up of two complete Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly Electoral districts of Western Australia, districts, which changed at each distribution. Representation Members References * Former electoral provinces of Western Australia {{Western ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is the westernmost state of Australia. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east, and South Australia to the south-east. Western Australia is Australia's largest state, with a land area of , and is also the List of country subdivisions by area, second-largest subdivision of any country on Earth. Western Australia has a diverse range of climates, including tropical conditions in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley, deserts in the interior (including the Great Sandy Desert, Little Sandy Desert, Gibson Desert, and Great Victoria Desert) and a Mediterranean climate on the south-west and southern coastal areas. the state has 2.965 million inhabitants—10.9 percent of the national total. Over 90 percent of the state's population live in the South-West Land Division, south-west corner and around 80 percent live in the state capital Perth, leaving the remainder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House, Perth, Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. Until 2021, for the election of members of the Legislative Council, the state was divided into six Electoral regions of Western Australia, electoral regions by community of interest – three metropolitan and three rural – each electing six members to the Legislative Council using Single transferable vote, single transferable voting (STV).. Each Council region overlapped with a varying number of Assembly seats and contained a variable number of voters, with the rural regions each containing significantly fewer voters than the metropolitan regions. The Legislative Council had traditionally been controlled by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Region Of Mining And Pastoral
The Mining and Pastoral Region was a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council, located in the northern and eastern regions of the state. It was created by the ''Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987'', and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 Western Australian state election, 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 Western Australian state election, 2008 election, it was increased to six members. The region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions, was abolished in time with the 2025 Western Australian state election, 2025 state election, following legislation passed in November 2021 to create a single, state-wide constituency of 37 members. Geography The Region was made up of several complete Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly Electoral districts of Western Australia, districts, which changed at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Legislative Assembly
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House, Perth, Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legislative Assembly today has 59 members, elected for four-year terms from single-member Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral districts. Members are elected using the instant-runoff voting, preferential voting system. As with all other Australian states and territories, voting is compulsory for all Australian citizens over the legal voting age of 18. Role and operation Most legislation in Western Australia is initiated in the Legislative Assembly. The party or coalition that can command a majority in the Legislative Assembly is invited by the Governor of Western Australia, Governor to form a government. That party or coalition's leader, once oath of office, sworn in, subsequently becomes the Premier of Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Western Australia
The Western Australian Legislative Assembly is elected from 59 single-member electoral districts. These districts are often referred to as ''electorates'' or ''seats''. The ''Electoral Distribution Act 1947'' requires regular review of electoral boundaries, in order to keep the relative size of electorates within certain limits. Electoral boundaries are determined by the Western Australian Electoral Commission. Electoral districts are subdivisions of electoral regions for the Legislative Council and have approximately an equal number of electors. The last electoral redistribution was completed in December 2023 and was first applied in the 2025 Western Australia election. List of electoral districts * Albany * Armadale * Balcatta * Baldivis * Bassendean * Bateman * Belmont * Bibra Lake * Bicton * Bunbury * Butler * Cannington * Carine * Central Wheatbelt * Churchlands * Cockburn * Collie-Preston * Cottesloe * Darling Range * Dawesville * Forrestfield * Fremant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Gascoyne
Gascoyne was an Electoral districts of Western Australia, electoral district of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1989. The district was located in the Western Australian outback, in the north-west of the state. It was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 Western Australian colonial election, 1890 election. In 1898, its major settlement was Carnarvon, Western Australia, Carnarvon and it also included some outlying pastoral leases like Middalya Station. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1989 Western Australian state election, 1989 election. In The district's most famous member was Frank Wise of the Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party, who served as Premier of Western Australia from 1945 to 1947. Members for Gascoyne Election results References Former electoral districts of Western Australia, Gascoyne 1890 establishments in Australia 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Murchison-Eyre
Murchison-Eyre was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1989 and again from 2005 to 2008. Known as Murchison until 1968, it was one of the original 30 seats contested at the 1890 election. The district was located in the Western Australian outback. The seat was abolished ahead of the 1989 election. Revived for the 2005 election, Murchison-Eyre was won by Labor candidate John Bowler, previously a member for the abolished Eyre. The district lasted one term before it was abolished ahead of the 2008 election. Its former territory was divided between the districts of Eyre, Kalgoorlie, North West, and Pilbara The Pilbara () is a large, dry, sparsely populated regions of Western Australia, region in the north of Western Australia. It is known for its Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal people; wealth disparity; its ancient landscapes; the prevailing r .... Bowler, by this time an independent, successful ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brand (politician)
George Edmund Dowd Brand (11 March 1911 – 5 March 1997) was an Australian politician who served as a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1965 to 1971, representing Lower North Province. Brand was born in Kalgoorlie to Brigid Katherine (née Dowd) and George Brand. He attended Eastern Goldfields High School and then began working as a clerk for Western Australian Government Railways. He later joined his father's freight business. Brand enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1943 (after previous service with the Citizens Military Forces), and during the war served in transport and supply units. He was discharged in 1945 and returned to the family business, taking it over completely following the death of his father in 1957. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Western Australian Division)
The Western Australian Liberal Party, officially known as the Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL), it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968. There was a previous Western Australian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged into the LCL in May 1949. The Liberal Party has held power in Western Australia for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country Party), with the longest period between 1959 and 1971. The party was the sole opposition in the state from 2017 until the 2021 election, where the party lost eleven seats, thus losing opposition status to the National Party, marking the first time the party had failed to form either a coalition government or opposition on its own. Following th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Heenan
Eric Michael Heenan is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, the highest ranking court in the Australian state of Western Australia. Education He was educated at Aquinas College (class of 1962), and the University of Western Australia from which he graduated in 1966. He left his father's firm E.M. Heenan & Co in 1983 to practise as a barrister. He was appointed King's Counsel A King's Counsel (Post-nominal letters, post-nominal initials KC) is a senior lawyer appointed by the monarch (or their Viceroy, viceregal representative) of some Commonwealth realms as a "Counsel learned in the law". When the reigning monarc ... in 1985. Career Heenan served as president of the WA Bar Association from 1990 to 1992, and as vice-president of the Australian bar association in 1992. He also served as a Commissioner of the Western Australian Supreme Court in 1990 and 1994. From 1988 to 1994, Heenan served as the deputy chairman of the Aquinas College Board. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch)
The Western Australian Labor Party, officially known as WA Labor, is the Western Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). It is the current governing party of Western Australia since winning the 2017 state election under Mark McGowan. History The Western Australian state division of the Australian Labor Party was formed at a Trade Union Congress in Coolgardie in 1899. Shortly afterwards the federal Labor Party was formalised in time for Australian federation in 1901. The WA Labor Party achieved representation in the Western Australian Parliament in 1900 with six members, and four years later the party entered into minority government with Henry Daglish becoming the first Labor Premier of Western Australia. Governance There are five layers of governance in the WA Labor party. These governance layers are filled with people from the party's general membership, as well as delegates from affiliated unions to the party. The five governance layers are: # The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Dellar
Stanley James Dellar (29 November 1936 – 11 April 2015) was an Australian politician who served as a Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1971 to 1977, representing Lower North Province. Dellar was born in Kalgoorlie to Gladys Jean (née McDonald) and David Dellar, David Peter Dellar. His father was also a member of parliament. Dellar attended Eastern Goldfields College, Eastern Goldfields High School, and after leaving began working as a clerk for the Shire of Boulder, Kalgoorlie Road Board. He later worked as a clerk for local government bodies in Shire of Bridgetown-Greenbushes, Bridgetown (1959 to 1963), Shire of Carnarvon, Carnarvon (1964 to 1967), and Shire of Exmouth, Exmouth (1967 to 1970). Dellar entered parliament at the 1971 Western Australian state election, 1971 state election, defeating George Brand (politician), George Brand of the Libera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
