Lionel William "Lin" Powell (born 10 March 1939) is a former Australian politician. He was a Member of the

Queensland Legislative Assembly 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 ...

for

Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic language, Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician language, Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major ancient Egyptian deities, goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughou ...

Early life

Powell was born in Maryborough to Lionel Mitchell Powell and Helen Irene, ''née'' West. Lin Powell is a great-grandson of

Native Police Australian native police units, consisting of Aboriginal troopers under the command (usually) of at least one white officer, existed in various forms in all Australian mainland colonies during the nineteenth and, in some cases, into the twentiet ...

officer Walter David Taylor Powell. He was educated at state schools in Bundaberg and then at

Brisbane State High School , motto_translation = Knowledge is Power , city = South Brisbane , state = Queensland , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Public, selective, co-educational, secondary, ...

. After studying at

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and the

University of Queensland , mottoeng = By means of knowledge and hard work , established = , endowment = A$224.3 million , budget = A$2.1 billion , type = Public research university , chancellor = Peter Varghese , vice_chancellor = Deborah Terry , city = ...

, he became a schoolteacher. He taught at

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, Cairns and Bundaberg and was a school principal at Lyndhurst, Cooloolabin,

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and

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Politics

A long-time member of the National Party, he was secretary of the

Mundubbera Mundubbera ( ) is a town and a locality in the North Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia. In the , Mundubbera had a population of 1261 people. Mundubbera is the self-proclaimed "Citrus Capital of Queensland", although this is disputed by the ...

branch from 1965 until his election as president in 1967, serving until 1970. In 1974, he was elected to the

as the member for

. Promoted to the front bench as Minister for Education in 1982, he was briefly Leader of Government Business in the House in 1987 before being elected

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in December, immediately after

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's ousting by Mike Ahern. On 3 May 1989, Powell resigned from the National Party and declared himself an

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. He continued as Speaker until 5 July 1989, when the government voted against him on a matter of privilege; his resignation prompted scenes of chaos in the chamber. He remained a Member of Parliament until his sudden resignation on 31 July 1989; he formed the New Conservative Party and ran for Isis as an independent at the

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, but without success.

References

1939 births Living people National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Queensland Independent members of the Parliament of Queensland Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly People educated at Brisbane State High School Speakers of the Queensland Legislative Assembly {{Australia-National-politician-stub