Gregory Gane Cornwell (born 19 June 1938) is an Australian former

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. He was a member of the

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Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory, known in short as the ACT Legislative Assembly, is the unicameral legislature of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It sits in the Legislative Assembly Building, Canberra, Leg ...

elected to the multi-member single constituency Assembly and later elected to represent the multi-member electorate of Molonglo for the

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. Cornwell also served in the elected ACT House of Assembly (a predecessor to the ACT Legislative Assembly), representing the electoral district of

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, from 1975 until 1986 for the Liberal Party. Cornwell was initially elected the second ACT Legislative Assembly in

1992 1992 was designated as International Space Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General. * January 6 ** The Republ ...

, elected to represent Molonglo in the Assembly in

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

and

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

general elections. Cornwell did not contest the 2004 ACT general election. During the time when the government was led by his party, Cornwell served as

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from 1995 to 2001.

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Liberal Party of Australia members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly 1938 births Living people Speakers of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly Members of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly Members of the Order of Australia 21st-century Australian politicians {{Canberra-stub