Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

The Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. The presiding officer of the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Council, is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council.

Speaker of the Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
Colin Brooks
since 7 March 2017
StyleThe Honourable
AppointerElected by the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Inaugural holderSir Francis Murphy
Formation21 November 1856
DeputyMaree Edwards
Websitewww.parliament.vic.gov.au/assembly/speaker

A Speaker is elected at the beginning of each new parliamentary term by the Legislative Assembly from one of its members. The Assembly may re-elect an incumbent Speaker by passing a motion; otherwise, a secret ballot is held. The House can dismiss the Speaker by a majority vote, and the Speaker can resign.

In practice, the Speaker is usually a member of the governing party or parties, who have the majority in the House, and continues to be a member of his or her political party, but it is left to their individual discretion as to whether or not they attend party meetings. The Speaker also continues to carry out his or her ordinary electorate duties as a member of Parliament and must take part in an election campaign to be re-elected as a member of Parliament.[1]

A Deputy Speaker, also elected by the Assembly, supports and assists the Speaker in the execution of his or her duties, and acts Speaker in their absence or during a vacancy in the position.

Speakers of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
NamePartyTerm startTerm end
Sir Francis Murphy none21 November 1856 24 January 1871
Sir Charles MacMahon none25 April 1871 April 1877
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy none22 May 1877 9 February 1880
Sir Charles MacMahon none11 May 1880 29 June 1880
Peter Lalor none22 July 1880 29 September 1887
Sir Matthew Henry Davies none4 October 1887 April 1892
Sir Thomas Bent none11 May 1892 September 1894
Sir Graham Berry none4 October 1894 September 1897
Francis Mason none25 October 1897 September 1902
Duncan Gillies Liberal14 October 1902 12 September 1903
William Beazley Labor16 September 1903 10 May 1904
Sir Frank Madden Liberal29 June 1904 October 1917
Sir John Mackey Nationalist29 November 1917 6 April 1924
Sir John Bowser Nationalist30 April 1924 5 March 1927
Oswald Snowball Nationalist6 July 1927 16 March 1928
Sir Alexander Peacock Nationalist4 July 19287 October 1933
 United Australia
Maurice Blackburn Labor11 October 1933 1 August 1934
William Everard United Australia2 August 1934 6 September 1937
Tom Tunnecliffe Labor19 October 1937 15 February 1940
William Slater Labor1 May 1940 20 October 1942
Sir George Knox United Australia21 October 19429 October 1947
 Liberal
Sir Thomas Maltby Liberal2 December 1947 13 April 1950
Sir Archie Michaelis Liberal20 June 1950 31 October 1952
Keith Sutton Labor17 December 1952 22 April 1955
Sir William McDonald Liberal15 June 1955 19 March 1967
Sir Vernon Christie Liberal16 May 1967 18 June 1973
Sir Kenneth Wheeler Liberal19 June 1973 28 May 1979
Jim Plowman Liberal29 May 1979 26 April 1982
Tom Edmunds Labor27 April 1982 24 October 1988
Dr Ken Coghill Labor25 October 1988 26 October 1992
John Delzoppo Liberal27 October 1992 13 May 1996
Jim Plowman Liberal14 May 1996 2 November 1999
Alex Andrianopoulos Labor3 November 1999 24 February 2003
Judy Maddigan Labor25 February 2003 18 December 2006
Jenny Lindell Labor19 December 2006 20 December 2010
Ken Smith Liberal21 December 2010 4 February 2014
Christine Fyffe Liberal4 February 2014 22 December 2014
Telmo Languiller Labor23 December 2014 25 February 2017
Colin Brooks Labor7 March 2017 Incumbent

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References
  1. The Speaker
  2. "Legislative Assembly - Former Speakers". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
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