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5 unusual facts about Australian House of Representatives


Andrea West

Andrea Gail West (16 September 1952 – 20 April 2010) was an Australian Liberal Party politician who served as Member for Bowman in the Australian House of Representatives from 1996 until she was defeated at the 1998 general election.

Bettina Gorton

In 1969 she came to her husband's defence over an incident sparked by his Liberal colleague Edward St John, a member of the House of Representatives.

Members of the Australian Capital Territory Advisory Council

1 Lewis Nott (Independent) resigned in December 1949 to run for the House of Representatives at the federal election.

2 Jim Fraser (Labor) resigned in May 1951 to run for the House of Representatives at the federal election.

Randolph Bedford

In 1923 he was elected as Labor candidate to the Legislative Assembly for Warrego, a seat which he held until his resignation in 1937 to contest the Division of Maranoa in the Australian House of Representatives.


1945 Australian National Airways Stinson crash

The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr Arthur Drakeford, made a detailed statement to the House of Representatives that an undetected fatigue crack in a welded joint in a boom attachment fitting in the left wing caused the crash.

Allan Rocher

Allan Rocher (born 16 February 1936), Australian politician, is a former Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia from 1978 to 1981 and member of the Australian House of Representatives Division of Curtin from 1981 to 1998.

Bickley Vale, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Labor's Geoff Corrigan, the former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Pat Farmer, the former ultra-marathon runner.

Catherine Field, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former ultra-marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Christine Wallace

Christine Wallace's early interest in politics began when appointed a staffer in the office of Peter Shack MP, a Liberal member of the House of Representatives.

Cobbitty, New South Wales

The suburb is in the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by former marathon runner Pat Farmer (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Currans Hill, New South Wales

The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).

Dennis Jensen

Dr Dennis Jensen (born 28 February 1962 in Johannesburg, South Africa), Australian politician, was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 9 October 2004 federal election for the Division of Tangney, Western Australia, for the Liberal Party.

Division of Higgins

The division was created in 1949 and is named after Justice H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), who was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1894), president of the Carlton Football Club (1904), a founding Member of Australian House of Representatives (1901-1906) and Justice of the High Court of Australia (1906–1929).

Electoral district of Tamworth

Tamworth was held by independent member Tony Windsor between 1991 and 2001 when he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Member for New England.

Ged Kearney

On 31 May 2013 she indicated she was considering nominating for Australian Labor Party preselection for the seat of Batman in the Australian House of Representatives, to contest the 2013 federal election (at that time scheduled for 14 September).

Hopetoun Blunder

Federation was scheduled to occur on 1 January 1901, but since the general election for the first Parliament of Australia was not to be held until March of that year, it was not possible to follow the conventions of the Westminster system and appoint the leader of the majority in the House of Representatives as Prime Minister.

Irfan Yusuf

In an online article in September 2005, Yusuf criticised his former factional colleague Bronwyn Bishop, a prominent Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives.

Isaac Selby

He ran for the House of Representatives seat of Northern Melbourne in the 1901 federal election against H. B. Higgins, blaming "the sinister hand of Rome" for his defeat.

John Dawkins

In 1974, aged 27, Dawkins was elected to the House of Representatives for the marginal seat of Tangney, but he was defeated at the 1975 election by Liberal Peter Richardson which followed the dismissal of the Whitlam government.

Kirrawee, New South Wales

In Federal parliament, Kirrawee is again split over 2 electorates, Hughes and Cook.

Kwinana Freeway

On 20 December 2012, the State Transport Minister Troy Buswell, with Federal MP Gary Gray and State MLA for Riverton Mike Nahan, officially opened the northbound lane.

Leopold Broinowski

Broinowski contested the Australian House of Representatives at the 1922 federal election, running unsuccessfully as one of three endorsed Nationalists in Denison.

Lou Cunningham

Cunningham was president of the local branches of the No Conscription League and the Australian Labor Party, and, having failed to enter the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1917 via the seat of Gough, he defeated Labor defector William Webster in 1919 to take the seat of Gwydir in the Australian House of Representatives.

Mount Annan, New South Wales

It sits within the state electorate of Camden, represented by Liberal Party of Australia's Chris Patterson, a former Mayor of Camden, and the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Liberal's Russell Matheson, a former Mayor of Campbelltown City.

Pardon for Morant, Handcock and Witton

In October 2009, the Australian military lawyer, Commander James William Unkles, of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve sent petitions for pardons for Morant, Handcock, and Witton to both Queen Elizabeth II and to the Petitions Committee of the Australian House of Representatives in October 2009.

Penneshaw, South Australia

Penneshaw is in the Kangaroo Island Council local government area, the South Australian House of Assembly electoral district of Finniss and the Australian House of Representatives Division of Mayo.

Percy Stewart

He was one of five original members of the VFU in the House of Representatives and took a large part in negotiating the formation of the BrucePage coalition government in late 1922, and he became Minister for Works and Railways in the resulting ministry.

Petro Georgiou

Petro Georgiou AO (born 30 November 1947), Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from November 1994 to July 2010, representing the Division of Kooyong, Victoria.

R v Davidson

In 1979, however, there was a motion in the Australian House of Representatives from Stephen Lusher to end medical benefits for terminations, and the debate spilled over to the legality of abortion.

Ralph Willis

In 1972, the year that the Whitlam Labor government was elected, Willis was elected as a Labor member of the House of Representatives for the extremely safe Labor seat of Gellibrand in Melbourne's western suburbs.

Steve Dargavel

Dargavel won a by-election in 1997 as the Australian Labor Party candidate for the House of Representatives seat of Fraser following the resignation of John Langmore to take up a position in the United Nations.

Ted Theodore

Theodore was elected to the House of Representatives for the seat of Dalley in Sydney at a by-election in 1927.

Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly presently consists of 88 members, each elected in single-member electoral districts, more commonly known as electorates or seats, using preferential voting, which is the same voting system used for the federal lower house, the Australian House of Representatives.


see also

Andrew Petrie

Division of Petrie, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland

Bonnett

Robert Bonnett (1916–1994), member of the Australian House of Representatives

Calwell

the Division of Calwell, an electorate in the Australian House of Representatives

Capricornia

Division of Capricornia, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives based around the region

David Watkins

David Oliver Watkins (1896–1971), Member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1935–1958, son of the above Member

Electoral district of Darling Downs

Division of Darling Downs, a former electorate of the Australian House of Representatives

Electoral district of Dundas

Division of Dundas, a former electorate of the Australian House of Representatives

Electoral district of Leichhardt

Division of Leichhardt, an electorate of the Australian House of Representatives, based in far north Queensland

Francis Baker

Francis Matthew John Baker (1903–1939), former member of the Australian House of Representatives

Francis Patrick Baker (1873–1959), former member of the Australian House of Representatives

H. G. Nelson

Harold George Nelson (1881–1947), former member of the Australian House of Representatives

Indi

Division of Indi, an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives

Kooyong

Division of Kooyong, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Victoria

Seat of Kalgoorlie

the Division of Kalgoorlie, an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives

Tom Gilmore

Tom Gilmore, Sr. (1908–1994), member of the Australian House of Representatives, 1949–1951