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Colin Charles "Col" Firmin (11 April 1940 – 3 March 2013) was a former Australian politician. Firmin served as an
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for the
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from 1976 to 1983 before his preselection by the ruling
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(CLP) for the
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in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly and his subsequent election at the 1983 Northern Territory election. Firmin was re-elected at the 1987 election but following the abolishing of the Ludmilla electorate in 1990, he lost preselection for the new seat of
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to Max Ortmann. Firmin quit the CLP and ran at the 1990 election as an independent but was defeated by Ortmann. Firmin died in
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on 3 March 2013, aged 72, from undisclosed causes.


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1940 births 2013 deaths Members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Country Liberal Party members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly Independent members of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub