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unusual facts about Victorian Legislative Council


VLC

Victorian Legislative Council, one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia


Anderson Report

The Victorian Legislative Council appointed a Board of Inquiry on 27 November 1963 in response to a Private Member's Bill proposed by John Galbally to prohibit Scientology in the State.

Clive Bubb

In 1979 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council to represent Ballarat Province; he was the Opposition spokesman for industrial relations from 1982.

Don Nardella

He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Parliament since 1992, sitting first in the Legislative Council for Melbourne North Province and then in the Legislative Assembly for Melton.

Giovanni Sgro

Giovanni Antonio Sgro (born 16 February 1931, Seminara, Italy), Australian politician, was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council representing the Australian Labor Party for Melbourne North Province from July 1979 until his retirement in August 1992.

John Lenders

In September 2010 Lenders was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Proportional Representation Society of Australia in recognition of his commitment to reform of the Victorian Legislative Council, which he oversaw in the lead-up to and following the Labor Government's re-election in 2002.

Jonathan Binns Were

In 1852 he unsuccessfully contested South Bourke for a seat in the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council, Henry Miller defeating him.

Murray Byrne

Murray Lewis Byrne (29 August 1928 – 7 November 2012) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat Province from 21 June 1958 to 28 April 1976.

Noel Pullen

Noel Pullen (born 9 December 1944, Essendon, Victoria) was an Australian politician, and was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Labor Party.


see also

George Cole

George Ward Cole (1793–1879), Australian politician, member of Victorian Legislative Council

James Beaney

In 1883, after a severe contest, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for the North Yarra Province, and was re-elected for a period of six years, in 1885, when he defeated the James Munro, the late Premier of Victoria.