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unusual facts about New South Wales Legislative Council



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The CCC ran a group of 21 candidates (dubbed by detractors the "Gang of 21", an allusion to the Gang of Four) standing for the Legislative Council, the NSW Upper House of Parliament .

Adolphus William Young

He was High Sheriff of New South Wales from 1842 to 1849 and was a representative for the Port Phillip District in the Legislative Council before Victoria was formed into a separate colony.

Arthur Colvin

The Honourable Colonel Arthur Edmund Colvin CBE MC MLC (24 April 1884 - 20 August 1966) was a member of New South Wales Legislative Council and a soldier, surgeon and physician.

Basil Helmore

Helmore contested the Senate unsuccessfully in 1937 as a United Australia Party candidate; he would also make an unsuccessful attempt to enter the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1948.

Donald Cochrane

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.

Edward Curr

He was elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for the District of Port Phillip (later to become the colony of Victoria) for two periods (from 1 September 1845 to 31 May 1846 and from 1 September 1848 to 31 May 1849).

Executive Council of New South Wales

Made up of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the New South Wales Legislative Council, the Cabinet is similar in structure and role to the Cabinet of Australia.

Jess Moore

Moore has run as a Socialist Alliance candidate in the Division of Cunningham for the Australian federal election, 2007 and Australian federal election, 2010 and as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council in the New South Wales state election, 2011.

Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1860–1864

:6 Newtown MLA Alexander McArthur was appointed to the Legislative Council on 20 June 1861.

Private member's bill

Notable also was the private member's bill introduced by Alan Corbett in the New South Wales Legislative Council to amend the Crimes Act of 1900.

Ross Clifford

In 2003, after several years of juggling his educational and radio commitments, Clifford attempted to make a move into politics, nominating as a Christian Democratic Party candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Council at the 2003 state election.

Walt Secord

He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since May 2011, when he was elected to fill the vacancy left by the retirement of Eddie Obeid.

Werriwa by-election, 1994

Latham's defeated opponent, Charlie Lynn of the Liberal Party, was selected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1995 filling a vacancy caused by the resignation of Ted Pickering.


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