Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1965–1968

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1965 to 21 May 1968.

The term was the first to be conducted under the Constitution Acts Amendment Act (No.2) 1963 (No.72 of 1963), which abolished the 10 three-member provinces which had existed almost unaltered since 1900 and replaced them with 15 new two-member provinces, while abolishing the practice of having separate Legislative Council elections in May of every even-numbered year. Hence, members whose terms expired on 21 May 1971 were elected at the 1965 state general election.

The chamber as a result had 30 seats made up of 15 provinces each electing two members, on a system of rotation whereby one-half of the members would retire every three years.

Name Party Province Term expires Years in office
Charles AbbeyLiberalWest19711958–1977
Norm BaxterCountryCentral19711950–1958; 1960–1983
George BrandLiberalLower North19711965–1971
Leslie DiverCountryCentral19681952–1974
Jerry DolanLaborSouth-East Metropolitan19681963–1974
Vic FerryLiberalSouth-West19711965–1987
Jim GarriganLaborSouth-East19711954–1971
Arthur GriffithLiberalNorth Metropolitan19711953–1977
Clive GriffithsLiberalSouth-East Metropolitan19711965–1997
Eric HeenanLaborLower North19681936–1968
Jack HeitmanCountryUpper West19711963–1977
James HislopLiberalMetropolitan19711941–1971
Edward HouseCountrySouth19711965–1971
Ruby HutchisonLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19711954–1971
Ray Jones[1]CountryWest19681950–1967
Frederick LaveryLaborSouth Metropolitan19711952–1971
Les LoganCountryUpper West19681947–1974
Graham MacKinnonLiberalLower West19681956–1986
Neil McNeillLiberalLower West19711965–1983
Thomas PerryCountryLower Central19711965–1977
Herbert R. RobinsonLiberalNorth Metropolitan19681962–1968
Harry StricklandLaborNorth19681950–1970
Claude StubbsLaborSouth-East19681962–1980
Ron ThompsonLaborSouth Metropolitan19681959–1980
Sydney ThompsonCountryLower Central19681960–1974
Jack ThomsonCountrySouth19681950–1974
Keith WatsonLiberalMetropolitan19681948–1968
Fred White[1]CountryWest19681967–1973
Bill WilleseeLaborNorth-East Metropolitan19681954–1974
Francis Drake WillmottLiberalSouth-West19681955–1974
Frank WiseLaborNorth19711956–1971

Notes

1 On 3 September 1967, West Province (formerly Midland Province) Country MLC Ray Jones died. Country Party candidate Fred White won the resulting by-election on 21 October 1967.

Sources

  • Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4. (especially p. 6)
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Aitkin, Don (1986). Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-909779-18-X.
  • Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume Two, 1930-1990 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0731697839.
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