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Electoral District Of Preston
The electoral district of Preston is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently centres on the northern Melbourne suburbs of Preston and Reservoir. It has always been a safe Labor Party seat. The most prominent former member was Victoria Cross recipient William Ruthven. At the 2006 election Robin Scott was elected to succeed the retiring Michael Leighton Michael W. Leighton (born May 19, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Chicago Blackhawks, Nashville Predators, Philadelphia Flyers and Carolina Hurricanes. Play ... who had been the member since the 1988 election. In 2022, Scott was succeeded by Nathan Lambert. Members for Preston Election results References External links Electorate profile: Preston District, Victorian Electoral Commission Electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1945 establishments in Australia City of Darebin Electora ...
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Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2022, representing the seat of Electoral district of Preston, Preston. Early life Before entering politics, Lambert studied computer science and creative arts at the University of Melbourne. He also served as a non-executive director at a Labor-aligned think tank, the Chifley Research Centre, as well as a brief tenure as an associate for McKinsey. From 2019 to 2022, Lambert served as both an assistant and executive director for the Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions in the Victorian Government. He took leave to run for the Labor party's preselection for the district of Preston. Political career Lambert challenged incumbent MP Robin Scott (Victorian politician), Robin Scott for the Australian Labor Party candidacy for the district of Electoral district of Preston, Preston. He was supported by the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association as we ...
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William Ruthven (Australian Soldier)
William "Rusty" Ruthven, VC (21 May 1893 – 12 January 1970) was an Australian soldier and state Labor politician. For actions in the First World War he was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early life Born in Collingwood, Victoria, William Ruthven was educated locally at the Vere Street State School. He became a mechanical engineer and was employed in the timber industry prior to his enlistment in the Australian Imperial Force in April 1915 for service in the First World War. He stood only tall, just above the minimum height requirement. First World War Ruthven was 24 years old, and a sergeant in the 22nd Battalion, 2nd Division, when at Ville-sur-Ancre on 19 May 1918 the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. The full citation for his actions appeared in a supplement to the ''London Gazette'' on 11 July 1918 ...
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1945 Establishments In Australia
1945 marked the end of World War II, the fall of Nazi Germany, and the Empire of Japan. It is also the year concentration camps were liberated and the only year in which atomic weapons have been used in combat. Events World War II will be abbreviated as “WWII” January * January 1 – WWII: ** Germany begins Operation Bodenplatte, an attempt by the ''Luftwaffe'' to cripple Allied air forces in the Low Countries. ** Chenogne massacre: German prisoners are allegedly killed by American forces near the village of Chenogne, Belgium. * January 6 – WWII: A German offensive recaptures Esztergom, Hungary from the Soviets. * January 9 – WWII: American and Australian troops land at Lingayen Gulf on western coast of the largest Philippine island of Luzon, occupied by Japan since 1942. * January 12 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the Vistula–Oder Offensive in Eastern Europe, against the German Army. * January 13 – WWII: The Soviet Union begins the East Prussian O ...
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Electoral Districts Of Victoria (state)
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria, Australia, Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 and the 2018 Victorian state election, 2018 state elections.
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2022 Victorian State Election
The 2022 Victorian state election was held on Saturday, 26 November 2022 to elect the 60th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly (lower house) and all 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council, Legislative Council (upper house) were up for election at the time the writs were issued, however the election in the district of Electoral district of Narracan, Narracan was deferred due to the death of a candidate. Despite a reduction in their primary and two-party-preferred vote, Labor was re-elected in a second consecutive Landslide victory, landslide, winning 56 seats in the 88-seat Legislative Assembly, a net increase of one seat from the 2018 Victorian state election, previous election in 2018. This was the sixth time that a Labor government was re-elected in Victoria, and it was Victorian Labor's second-best seat count at a state election, bested only by their result in the 2002 Victorian state election, 2002 election. ...
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Michael Leighton (politician)
Michael Andrew Leighton (20 October 1954 – 8 November 2014) was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, Victoria, he attended Monash University 1972–76 and subsequently began practising as a psychiatric nurse. Having joined the Labor Party in 1976, he became a trade union official in 1981, and in 1980 became a City of Heidelberg councillor, serving until 1982. In 1988, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ... as the Labor member for Preston. He held various positions in the shadow ministry from 1992–96, but was not included on the front bench when Labor won office in 1999. Leighton retired in 2006. He died, aged 60, on 8 November 2014.
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Carl Kirkwood
Carl William Dunn Kirkwood (30 April 1929 – 26 March 2020) was a Scottish-born Australian former politician. He was born in Denny to jobbing iron moulder William Kirkwood and his wife Ellen. He completed his schooling in Scotland and then served in the British Army in Malaya and Singapore from 1946 to 1948. He worked as a jobbing moulder, coming to Australia in 1955. He was soon active both in the Moulders' Union and the Labor Party's Preston branch. In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ... as the member for Preston. He became spokesman on local government immediately, adding lands from 1976 to 1977 and dropping his frontbench role entirely in 1981. Kirkwood retired in 1988. References {{DEF ...
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1970 Victorian State Election
The 1970 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 30 May 1970, was for the 45th Parliament of Victoria. It was held in the Australian state of Victoria to elect the 73 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 18 members of the 36-member Legislative Council. The incumbent Liberal government led by Henry Bolte was returned for a sixth term with a slightly reduced majority. Results Legislative Assembly Legislative Council Seats changing hands * Members listed in italics did not recontest their seats. * In addition, Labor retained the seat of Dandenong, which was won at a by-election A by-election, also known as a special election in the United States and the Philippines, or a bypoll in India, is an election used to fill an office that has become vacant between general elections. A vacancy may arise as a result of an incumben .... Post-election pendulum See also * Candidates of the 1970 Victorian state election References {{Vi ...
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Charlie Ring
Eugene Cornelius "Charlie" Ring (13 August 1899 – 29 October 1975) was an Australian politician. Born in Chiltern, his parents were Edward Ring (a butcher) and Louisa Grundmann. He worked for his father before becoming a tram driver at Preston. He married Katherine May Smith in 1927; they had one daughter. From 1942 to 1958 he served on the executive of the Tramways Union; he was also a Labor Party member from around 1936. In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H ... for Preston. He served until his retirement in 1970. Ring died at Greensborough in 1975. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ring, Charlie 1899 births 1975 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the ...
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Labor Placeholder
Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour movement, consisting principally of labour unions ** Labour Party or Labor Party, a name used by several political parties Literature * ''Labor'' (journal), an American quarterly on the history of the labor movement * ''Labour/Le Travail'', an academic journal focusing on the Canadian labour movement * ''Labor'' (Tolstoy book) or ''The Triumph of the Farmer or Industry and Parasitism'' (1888) Places * La Labor, Honduras * Labor, Koper, Slovenia Other uses * ''Labour'' (song), 2023 single by Paris Paloma * ''Labor'' (album), a 2013 album by MEN * Labor (area), a Spanish customary unit * "Labor", an episode of TV series '' Superstore'' * Labour (constituency), a functional constituency in Hong Kong elections * Labors, fictional ro ...
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1955 Victorian State Election
The 1955 Victorian state election was held in the Australian State of Victoria on Saturday, 28 May 1955 to elect 65 (of the 66) members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The incumbent Labor Party Government was defeated by the Liberal and Country Party (LCP) led by Henry Bolte with a swing of 14.6%. Background John Cain had led the Labor Party in Victoria since 1937, and had been Premier since defeating John McDonald's Country Party government at the 1952 election, forming the first majority Labor government in Victoria's history. The leader of the opposition Liberal and Country Party, Trevor Oldham, had died on 2 May 1953 in a plane crash on his way to attend the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Oldham's deputy, Henry Bolte, succeeded him a few days later. The election was triggered by events related to the Australian Labor Party split of 1955, in which followers of B. A. Santamaria's "Movement"—Catholic, anti-Communist, right-aligned members of the Labor Par ...
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1945 Victorian State Election
The 1945 Victorian state election was held on 10 November 1945 to elect all 65 members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The Labor Party, led by John Cain, won 31 seats and formed government with the support of two independents. Labor defeated the Country Party, led by former premier Albert Dunstan, and the Liberal Party, led by Thomas Hollway. The incumbent premier at the election was Ian Macfarlan, the deputy leader of the Liberal Party, who became premier on 2 October 1945 after the Dunstan government was defeated on the floor of parliament. Macfarlan contested the election as a Ministerial Liberal, but lost his seat of Brighton to an endorsed Liberal candidate. This marks the only time in Victorian history where the sitting premier did not lead any of the three largest parties at an election. Background The Country Party was returned to power at the 1943 state election, with Albert Dunstan serving as premier. The ministry was composed entirely of Country MPs, ...
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