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Members Of The Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1957–1963
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council between 1957 and 1963. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year. Elections Members Notes : In November 1958, Elliot Lillico, the member for Electoral division of Meander, Meander, resigned. Charles Best (politician), Charles Best won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1958. : On 7 December 1958, George Flowers (politician), George Flowers, the member for Electoral division of Westmorland, Westmorland, died. Oliver Gregory won the resulting by-election on 14 February 1959. : On 21 April 1959, Geoffrey Green (politician), Geoffrey Green, the member for Electoral division of Monmouth, Monmouth, died. Louis Bisdee won the resulting by-election on 4 July 1959. : On 25 April 1960, Neil Campbell (politician), Neil Campbell, the member for Electoral division of Tamar, Tamar, died. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two Chambers of parliament, chambers of the Parliament, the other being the Tasmanian House of Assembly, House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House, Hobart, Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using instant-runoff voting, preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered elections, staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. Tasmanian's upper house is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Buckingham
The electoral division of Buckingham was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl .... It was abolished in 1999 after the Legislative Council was reduced from 19 members to 15. The then sitting member, David Crean, was allocated as the member for Elwick. Members See also * Buckingham Land District * Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions External linksParliament Tasmania - Past election results for Buckingham {{DEFAULTSORT:Buckingham Former electoral districts of Tasmania Southern Tasmania 1999 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Campbell (politician)
Neil Campbell (21 March 1880 – 25 April 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Winkleigh, Tasmania. In 1922 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Wilmot. He was Chair of Committees from 1931 to 1934, when he briefly became a minister. From 1945 to 1950 he served as Leader of the Opposition. He resigned from the House of Assembly in 1955 to contest Tamar in the Legislative Council A legislative council is the legislature, or one of the legislative chambers, of a nation, colony, or subnational division such as a province or state. It was commonly used to label unicameral or upper house legislative bodies in the Brit ..., which he represented until his death in 1960 in Launceston. References 1880 births 1960 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bell Connolly
James Bell Connolly (21 January 1892 – 14 September 1970) was an Australian politician. He was born in Newtown, Tasmania. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor member for Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of .... He served until his retirement in 1968. References 1892 births 1970 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cheek (Australian Politician)
Thomas Lefroy Cheek (28 December 1894 – 26 September 1994) was an Australian politician. He was born in Evandale, the son of politician John Cheek and his wife Lydia. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... member for Macquarie. He served as Chair of Committees from 1966 until his retirement in 1968. Cheek died in 1994. References 1894 births 1994 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Carins
Lloyd Horton Carins (29 June 1923 – 16 July 2007) was an Australian politician in Tasmania. He was born in Tasmania. In 1962 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... member for South Esk. He was Chair of Committees from 1979 to 1980, in which year he retired. Carins died on 16 July 2007, aged 84. References 1923 births 2007 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Brown (Australian Politician)
Ronald Herbert Brown (29 January 1915 – 5 April 1992) was an Australian politician. He was born in Glen Huon, Tasmania. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist ... member for Huon. He was Chair of Committees from 1957 until his defeat in 1966. References 1915 births 1992 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bisdee
Louis Fenn Bisdee (22 September 1910 – 16 November 2010) was an Australian politician. Career He was born in Tasmania. In 1959 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Monmouth. He served until he was defeated in 1981. Bisdee died in Hobart Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly hal ... in 2010 at the age of 100. References 1910 births 2010 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian men centenarians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Best (politician)
Charles Robinson Best (14 June 1909 – 24 May 1996) was an Australian politician. He was born in Longford, the son of politician Percy Best. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Wilmot. He held the seat until 1958, when he resigned to run for the Legislative Council seat of Meander as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in Pennsylvania, United States * Independentes (English: Independents), a Portuguese artist .... He won, and held the seat until his defeat in 1971. He died in 1996 in Deloraine. References 1909 births 1996 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians People fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch)
The Tasmanian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Tasmanian Labor, is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success. Following the 2024 Tasmanian state election, the party is led by Division of Franklin (state), Franklin MP Dean Winter, and since 2014, has formed the Opposition (Tasmania), official opposition in Tasmania. The party is currently represented in Parliament by the Winter Shadow ministry. History Late beginnings (until 1903) The Labor Party came into existence in Tasmania later than in the mainland states, in part due to the weak state of nineteenth-century Tasmanian trade unionism compared to the rest of the country. The two main Trades and Labor Councils, in Hobart and Launceston, were badly divided along north–south lines, and were always small; they collapsed altogether in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Benjamin
Phyllis Jean Benjamin (30 August 1907 – 9 April 1996), Labor Party politician, was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electorate of Hobart from 10 May 1952 until her retirement on 22 May 1976. Born Phyllis Allsopp, she married Albert Benjamin in Sydney on 10 March 1926. In 1948, their daughter, Jill Benjamin, married Bill Neilson who went on to become Premier of Tasmania.Peter Boyce'Neilson, William Arthur (Bill) (1925–1989)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 19 November 2015. She stood for the division of Hobart as a Labor candidate when sitting member John Soundy retired on 10 May 1952. She won the division easily with 1,433 votes; the next highest candidate received only 563 votes. From 1951 to 1953 she was President of the Federated Association of Australian Housewives. Despite her sex, Benjamin was reported as one of the "36 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Baker (Australian Politician)
Sir Henry Seymour Baker (1 September 1890 – 20 July 1968) was an Australian politician and lawyer. He served in the Parliament of Tasmania for nearly 40 years, initially as a Nationalist and Liberal in the House of Assembly (1928–1946) where he spent periods as attorney-general (1928–1934) and leader of the opposition (1936–1946). He later served in the Legislative Council (1948–1968), including as president (1959–1968). He was born in England and spent most of his childhood in New Zealand, arriving in Australia as a teenager. Early life Baker was born on 1 September 1890 in Liverpool, England. He was the son of Lydia Charlotte (née Lee) and Sidney James Baker; his father was a Congregationalist minister. Baker and his family moved to New Zealand when he was a child, where he attended Palmerston North Boys' High School. The family moved to Australia in 1907, settling in Launceston, Tasmania. After leaving school he began working as a journalist for the '' D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
