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3 unusual facts about Donald Cochrane


Donald Cochrane

In 1933 he was elected to Marrickville Municipal Council, of which he was mayor in 1944 (he would serve on council until 1957).

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In 1950 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor member, but in 1959 he was expelled from the party for opposing the Council's abolition; he subsequently joined the Independent Labor Group of like-minded former Labor MLCs.

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Cochrane was educated at Marrickville and worked at his father's returned serviceman's block in Tarcutta.



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