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Mick Murray (politician)
Michael Philip Murray (born 26 November 1949) is an Australian former politician who was a Australian Labor Party (Western Australian Branch), Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from February 2001 to March 2021. He represented the electorate of Collie from 2001 to 2005 and the electorate of electoral district of Collie-Preston, Collie-Preston from 2005 to 2021. Growing up in the small town of Duranillin, Western Australia, Duranillin in the Shire of West Arthur, Murray attended the local primary school before moving to Collie, Western Australia, Collie with his parents and completing his education in local state schools. Murray completed his apprenticeship as a mechanic and worked in the Pilbara, North West of Western Australia before settling back in Collie to work in the coal mines. Murray contested the seat of Collie twice before defeating the sitting member, Hilda Turnbull, in the 2001 Western Australian state election, 2001 election on a swing of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilda Turnbull
Dr Hilda Margaret Turnbull (née Morcombe) (born 15 January 1942) is an Australian politician. She was a National Party of Western Australia member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1989 until 2001, representing the electorate of Collie. Turnbull was born in Perth, and was a general practitioner before entering politics. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1989 state election, defeating Labor in the seat of Collie, which they had held since 1908. Her victory followed the retirement of veteran Collie Labor MP Tom Jones. She was the National Party spokesperson for Health, Community Services and Women's Interests from March 1989 until November 1992, and the Coalition Shadow Minister for Family and Youth from November 1992 to February 1993 after the National Party re-entered their coalition with the Liberal Party. She was not appointed to the ministry after the election of the Court A court is an institution, often a government entity, with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2001 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 10 February 2001 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The two-term Liberal– National coalition government, led by Premier Richard Court, was defeated by the Labor Party, led by Opposition Leader Dr Geoff Gallop, in a landslide. The election produced the biggest change of seats at any election since 1911, with Labor winning 14 seats from the Coalition as well as an Independent-held seat, while losing the seat of Kalgoorlie for the first time since 1923 to Liberal candidate Matt Birney. Meanwhile, a minister in the outgoing Government, Doug Shave, lost his seat of Alfred Cove to Independent candidate Dr Janet Woollard, who was also a member of the Liberals for Forests party. This was the first election in Western Australian history where the Australian Greens Party overtook the National Party in its share of the state vote. Results Legislative As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Following are lists of members of the 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 capi ...: {{DEFAULTSORT:Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 Births
Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2025 * January 2 – Luis Muñoz Marín becomes the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico. * January 11 – The first "networked" television broadcasts take place, as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, goes on the air, connecting east coast and mid-west programming in the United States. * January 16 – Şemsettin Günaltay forms the new government of Turkey. It is the 18th government, last One-party state, single party government of the Republican People's Party. * January 17 – The first Volkswagen Beetle, VW Type 1 to arrive in the United States, a 1948 model, is brought to New York City, New York by Dutch businessman Ben Pon Sr., Ben Pon. Unable to interest dealers or importers in the Volkswagen, Pon sells the sample car to pay his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Collie-Wellington
Collie-Preston is a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. While the seat was known as Collie for just over a century of its existence as an electorate, the seat was known as South West Mining from 1901 to 1904, and Collie-Wellington from 2005 to 2008. It is named for the South West coal mining town of Collie. While historically a very safe seat for the Labor Party, redistributions in 1988 and 2007 due to increases in the quota for country seats which had historically been malapportioned resulted in the seat incorporating surrounding rural shires which were hostile to Labor and thereby becoming more marginal. History Collie was originally created as the seat of "South West Mining" in the ''Constitution Act Amendment Act 1899'', the last redistribution of seats to require a modification of the Constitution. It was first contested at the 1901 election. The district in 1900 consisted of three non-contiguous parts: one centred on the Collie coalfields ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Western Australian State Election
Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council. The Labor government, led by Premier Geoff Gallop, won a second term in office against the Liberal Party, led by Opposition Leader Colin Barnett. Results Legislative Assembly Notes: : The Independent member for Pilbara, Larry Graham, and the Independent member for South Perth, Phillip Pendal, both retired at the 2005 election. The seats returned to the Labor and Liberal parties respectively. Legislative Council Notes: : By the time of the 2005 election, the One Nation Party actually held no seats, as the three members elected in 2001 election had resigned to sit as independents, later joining the New Country Party The New Country Party was a minor political party in Australia. It emerged from the internal divisions of the One Nation Party in Queensland and Western Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-party-preferred
In Australian politics, the two-party-preferred vote (TPP or 2PP), is the result of an opinion poll or a projection of an election result where preferences are distributed to one of the two major parties, the Labor Party and the Liberal/National Coalition e.g. "Coalition 50%, Labor 50%. The preference distribution is usually based upon the results of the last election, and the votes for other candidates are distributed between to the two parties. As such the TPP is a rough indicator of voting intent that focuses on determining the likely majority in the lower house. It is compared to previous values to predict the swing and hence the likelihood of a change in government between the major parties. The TPP assumes a two-party system of government, i.e. that after distribution of votes from less successful candidates, the two remaining candidates will be from each of the two major parties. It provides no indication of the number of representatives of other parties or independen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 red earth; and its vast mineral deposits, in particular iron ore. It is also a global biodiversity hotspot for subterranean fauna. Definitions of the Pilbara region At least two important but differing definitions of "the Pilbara" region exist. Administratively it is one of the nine regions of Western Australia defined by the ''Regional Development Commissions Act 1993''; the term also refers to the Pilbara shrublands bioregion (which differs in extent) under the Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia (IBRA). Geography The Pilbara region, as defined by the Regional Development Commissions Act 1993 and administered for economic development purposes by the Pilbara Development Commission, has an estimated population of 61,68 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Hanns
Jodie Louise Hanns (born 9 April 1972) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2021 state election, representing Collie-Preston. Hanns was born in Yarloop and moved to Collie in 2005. She was deputy principal of Collie Senior High School prior to entering politics. She had previously been a Shire of Collie councillor, chief executive officer of the Collie Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and board member of the Coal Miners' Welfare Board of Western Australia, the Collie Early Education Centre and St Brigid's School. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 2021 election, successfully replacing long-time Labor MP Mick Murray in the usually marginal seat. Labor won the election in a landslide statewide, and the local Liberal campaign was hampered by a controversial proposal to close the Collie power station, resulting in Hanns winning with 73.4% of the two-party preferred vote. In her electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Collie, Western Australia
Collie is a town in the South West region of Western Australia, south of the state capital, Perth, and inland from the regional city and port of Bunbury. It is near the junction of the Collie and Harris Rivers, in the middle of dense jarrah forest and the only coalfields in Western Australia. At the 2021 census, Collie had a population of 7,599. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Collie is mainly known as a coal-producing centre, but also offers industrial, agricultural and aquaculture tourism industries. Muja Power Station is located south-east, Collie Power Station is east, and Bluewaters Power Station is northeast of the town. To its west is the Wellington Dam, a popular location for fishing, swimming and boating. History The town is named after the river on which it is situated. James Stirling named the Collie River, which in turn is named after Alexander Collie. He and William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
