Ivor Francis Vivian (born 1932) is an Australian former politician. Vivian was born in

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in 1932. From 1969 to 1998, he was the foundation principal lecturer in mathematics at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, renamed in 1990 as the

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. In 1995 he was awarded a 25-year service pin. In 1973, he was appointed to

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. In 1975, he was elected to the newly created

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as one of the nine members representing the electorate of

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for the centrist

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. He was one of two Australia Party members elected to the Legislative Assembly, the other being Maureen Worsley, who was elected as a member for the electorate for

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Gordon Walsh Gordon John Walsh (30 December 1932 – 14 June 2000) was an Australian politician for the Labor Party. Early life Walsh was born in Welling in Kent (now in the London Borough of Bexley) in England. He was twice evacuated from London with othe ...

was a

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member of the Assembly. In 1977 he resigned from Labor, and from the Assembly, and joined the Australia Party. Vivian and Walsh both joined the

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on its formation later in 1977. Worsley sat out the rest of her term as an

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. Vivian and Walsh were both elected to the renamed House of Assembly in

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, but Vivian failed to be re-elected in 1982, leaving Walsh as the only remaining Democrat. He served as the deputy president of the Assembly and deputy chairman of committees. He also served on the ACT Interim Schools Authority, Road Safety Council, Third Party Premiums Committee and was chairman of the Police Liaison Committee. The House of Assembly was abolished in 1986, and replaced in 1989 with the

. Neither Vivian nor Walsh stood for election to the new Legislative Assembly. Vivian is a priest of the

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, and was vicar of St Thomas' church in the

suburb of Melba. He was involved in the establishment of Radio 1RPH, a radio station for people with a print disability.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Vivian, Ivor 1932 births Living people Australia Party politicians Australian Democrats politicians Members of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly Australian Capital Territory politicians 20th-century Australian politicians Liberal Catholicism English emigrants to Australia