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Peter White (Australian Politician, Born 1936)
Peter Nicholson Duckett White, MC (19 January 1936 – 13 February 2005) was an Australian Army officer and politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at the Royal Military College, Duntroon and the Australian National University in Canberra. He served in the Australian Army from 1954 to 1975, during which time he deployed to Malaya and Vietnam, was awarded the Military Cross, and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In 1977, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as the Liberal member for Southport. He held that position until 1980, when he was defeated by National Party candidate, Doug Jennings. White then entered federal politics, winning the by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of McPherson caused by the death of Liberal minister Eric Robinson. Although challenged by former senator Glen Sheil Glenister Fermoy Sheil (21 October 192929 September 2008) was an Australian politician, representing the National Party in ...
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Division Of McPherson
The Division of McPherson is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Queensland. The current MP is Leon Rebello of the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. Geography Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a redistribution committee appointed by the Australian Electoral Commission. Redistributions occur for the boundaries of divisions in a particular state, and they occur every seven years, or sooner if a state's representation entitlement changes or when divisions of a state are malapportioned. History The division was created in 1948 and is named after the McPherson Range, which forms one of the divisional boundaries. McPherson is located in south-east Queensland, and originally included the entire Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast region, stretching as far as the Scenic Rim and Darling Downs#Southern Downs, Southern Downs. However, the area's dramatic ...
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Sportspeople From Brisbane
An athlete is most commonly a person who competes in one or more sports involving physical strength, speed, power, or endurance. Sometimes, the word "athlete" is used to refer specifically to sport of athletics competitors, i.e. including track and field and marathon runners but excluding e.g. swimmers, footballers or basketball players. However, in other contexts (mainly in the United States) it is used to refer to all athletics (physical culture) participants of any sport. For the latter definition, the word sportsperson or the gendered sportsman or sportswoman are also used. A third definition is also sometimes used, meaning anyone who is physically fit regardless of whether they compete in a sport. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-developed physiques obtained by extensive physical training and strict exercise, accompanied by a strict dietary regimen. Definitions The word "athlete" is a romanization of the , ''at ...
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Members Of The Australian House Of Representatives
Following are lists of members of the Australian House of Representatives: *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1901–1903 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1903–1906 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1906–1910 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1910–1913 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1913–1914 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1914–1917 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1917–1919 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1919–1922 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1922–1925 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1925–1928 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1928–1929 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1929–1931 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1931–1934 *Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1934–1937 *Members of ...
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Members Of The Australian House Of Representatives For McPherson
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Liberal Party Of Australia Members Of The Parliament Of Queensland
Liberal or liberalism may refer to: Politics * Generally, a supporter of the political philosophy liberalism. Liberals may be politically left or right but tend to be centrist. * An adherent of a Liberal Party (See also Liberal parties by country) * Classical liberalism * Liberalism (international relations) * Sexually liberal feminism * Social liberalism Arts, entertainment and media * ''El Liberal'', a Spanish newspaper published 1879–1936 * '' The Liberal'', a British political magazine published 2004–2012 * ''Liberalism'' (book), a 1927 book by Ludwig von Mises * "Liberal", a song by Band-Maid from the 2019 album '' Conqueror'' Places in the United States * Liberal, Indiana * Liberal, Kansas * Liberal, Missouri * Liberal, Oregon Religion * Religious liberalism * Liberal Christianity * Liberalism and progressivism within Islam * Liberal Judaism (other) People * Julia Liberal Liberal (born 1967), Spanish politician See also * * * Liberal arts (disambiguatio ...
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Royal Military College, Duntroon Graduates
Royal may refer to: People * Royal (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name * A member of a royal family or royalty Places United States * Royal, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Royal, Illinois, a village * Royal, Iowa, a city * Royal, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Royal, Nebraska, a village * Royal, Franklin County, North Carolina, an unincorporated area * Royal, Utah, a ghost town * Royal, West Virginia, an unincorporated community * Royal Gorge, on the Arkansas River in Colorado * Royal Township (other) Elsewhere * Mount Royal, a hill in Montreal, Canada * Royal Canal, Dublin, Ireland * Royal National Park, New South Wales, Australia Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Royal'' (Jesse Royal album), 2021 * Royal (Ayo album), 2020 * '' The Royal'', a British medical drama television series * '' The Royal Magazine'', a monthly British literary magazine published between 1898 and 1939 * '' The Raja Saab'', working ti ...
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National Party Of Australia
The National Party of Australia, commonly known as the Nationals or simply the Nats, is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Agrarianism, agrarian List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers, and List of regions of Australia, rural voters generally, it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a Government of Australia, federal level. In 1975, it adopted the name National Country Party, before taking its current name in 1982. Ensuring support for farmers, either through government grants and subsidies or through community appeals, is a major focus of National Party policy. The process for obtaining these funds has come into question in recent years, such as during the Sports rorts affair (2020), Sports Rorts Affair. According to Ian McAllister (political scientist), Ian McAllister, the Nationals are the only remaining party from the "wave of agrarian socialist parties set up around the Western w ...
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Glen Sheil
Glenister Fermoy Sheil (21 October 192929 September 2008) was an Australian politician, representing the National Party in the Senate for the state of Queensland from 1974 to 1981, and again from 1984–90. He was an amateur tennis player who competed at the Australian Championships in the 1940s and 1950s. Early life Sheil was born in Sydney on 21 October 1929. He was the second of five children born to Agnes May (née Browne) and William Glenister Sheil. His father was a civil engineer who worked in several states and was appointed general manager of Queensland's Mount Morgan Mine in 1950. He was the Country Party candidate at the 1967 Capricornia by-election. Sheil moved frequently during his childhood, attending Silverton Provisional School in Brisbane, Benalla High School in country Victoria, The Hutchins School in Hobart, and The Southport School on the Gold Coast. He went on to study medicine at the University of Queensland, graduating MBBS in 1954. After graduatin ...
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Australian House Of Representatives
The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only 1910 Australian federal election, one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached. The House is almost always dissolved earlier, usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution alongside the whole Senate. Elections for members of the House of Representatives have always been held in conjunction with those for the Senate since the 1970s. A member of the House may be referred to as a "Member of Parliament" ("MP" or "Member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "senator". Under the conventions of the Westminster system, the Australian Government, government of ...
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1981 McPherson By-election
A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of McPherson on 21 February 1981. This was triggered by the sudden death of Liberal Party MP Eric Robinson. It was held on the same day as by-elections for Boothby and Curtin. Although National Country Party Senator Glen Sheil resigned from the Senate to contest the by-election, it was won by Liberal candidate Peter White, a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland The Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the sole chamber of the unicameral Parliament of Queensland established under the Constitution of Queensland. Elections are held every four years and are done by full preferential voting. The Assembly ... who had retired in preparation for the by-election. The 1981 McPherson by-election is among the frequent by-elections triggered by the death of the sitting member and would in fact be the last by-election triggered by the death of a sitting member until the 2000 Isaacs by-election ...
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National Party Of Australia – Queensland
The National Party of Australia – Queensland (NPA-Q), commonly known as the Queensland Nationals, National Party of Queensland or simply the Nationals, was the Queensland branch of the National Party of Australia (NPA) until 2008. Prior to 1974, it was known as the Country Party. The party was disestablished in 2008, when it merged with the Queensland division of the Liberal Party of Australia to form the Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP). Formed in 1915 by the Queensland Farmers' Union (QFU) and serving as the state branch of the National Party of Australia, it initially sought to represent the interests of the farmers but over time became a more general conservatism, conservative political party in the state, leading to much debate about relations with other conservative parties and a series of mergers that were soon undone. From 1924 onward, it was the senior partner in the centre-right Coalition (Australia), coalition with the Liberal Party of Australia (Queensland ...
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