Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1964–1967
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
from 1964 to 1967, as elected at the 1964 state election
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Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly:* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1859–1861* Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864...
from 1964 to 1967, as elected at the 1964 state election
Victorian state election, 1964
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on 27 June 1964 to elect the 66 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 17 members of the 34-member Legislative Council...
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| Name | Party | Electorate Electoral districts of Victoria The Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the Australian State, is elected from 88 single-member electorates called districts.-Current districts:This is a list of districts .* Electoral district of Albert Park* Electoral district of Altona... |
Term in office |
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| Hon Jim Balfour | Liberal Liberal Party of Australia The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office... |
Morwell Electoral district of Morwell The Electoral district of Morwell is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the regional centres of Morwell and Traralgon as well as the surrounding rural areas in the middle of Gippsland.... |
1955–1982 |
| Hayden Birrell | Liberal | Geelong Electoral district of Geelong The Electoral district of Geelong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is based around inner metropolitan Geelong and includes the suburbs of Bell Park, Drumcondra, East Geelong, Geelong, Geelong West, Newtown and South Geelong and parts of Highton, and North Geelong... |
1961–1982 |
| Hon John Bloomfield | Liberal | Malvern Electoral district of Malvern -External links:*... |
1953–1970 |
| Hon Henry Bolte Henry Bolte Sir Henry Edward Bolte GCMG was an Australian politician. He was the 38th and longest serving Premier of Victoria.- Early years :... |
Liberal | Hampden Electoral district of Hampden Hampden was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1904 until its abolision on 1976. Most of the territory located in the old division of Hampden was transferred into the re-created electorate of Ripon. Hampden's most notable member was the... |
1947–1972 |
| Bill Borthwick Bill Borthwick William Archibald "Bill" Borthwick AM was an Australian politician. Borthwick was a Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electorates of Scoresby and Monbulk .... |
Liberal | Scoresby Electoral district of Scoresby The Electoral district of Scoresby is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Scoresby:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1960–1982 |
| Vernon Christie | Liberal | Ivanhoe Electoral district of Ivanhoe (Victoria) The Electoral district of Ivanhoe is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in the north-eastern suburbs of Melbourne and is based around the suburbs of Heidelberg, Ivanhoe and Rosanna.... |
1955–1973 |
| Arthur Clarey Arthur Clarey Reynold Arthur Clarey was an Australian politician.Born in South Yarra to estate agent Francis William Clarey and Catherine Lawson , Arthur attended Flemington State School, Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, graduating with a Bachelor of Commerce... |
Labor Australian Labor Party The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia... |
Melbourne Electoral district of Melbourne The Electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the localities of Carlton, North Carlton, Melbourne, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington and Flemington, and includes Melbourne... |
1955–1972 |
| Leslie Cochrane | Country National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is... |
Gippsland West Electoral district of Gippsland West ĦThe electoral district of Gippsland West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Gippsland West:-External links:... |
1950–1970 |
| Roy Crick | Labor | Grant | 1955–1966 |
| Hon Thomas Darcy | Liberal | Polwarth Electoral district of Polwarth The Electoral district of Polwarth is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers much of the rural territory west of Geelong and includes the towns of Anglesea, Lorne, Lismore, Colac, Camperdown, Terang and Mortlake.... |
1958–1970 |
| William Divers | Labor | Footscray Electoral district of Footscray The Electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne and covers the suburbs of Footscray, Maribyrnong and Seddon.... |
1958–1970 |
| Brian Dixon | Liberal | St Kilda Electoral district of St Kilda The Electoral district of St. Kilda was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members of St Kilda:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1964–1982 |
| Roberts Dunstan | Liberal | Mornington Electoral district of Mornington The Electoral district of Mornington is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Mornington:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1956–1982 |
| Bruce Evans | Country | Gippsland East Electoral district of Gippsland East The Electoral district of Gippsland East is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers most of eastern Victoria and includes the towns of Bairnsdale, Lakes Entrance, Orbost, Omeo, Maffra and Heyfield.... |
1961–1992 |
| Tom Evans | Liberal | Ballarat North | 1960–1988 |
| Leo Fennessy Leo Fennessy Leo Michael Fennessy was an Australian politician.Fennessy was born at Warrnambool to police superintendent Pierce Fennessy and Mary Kenafick. He attended St Thomas' Christian Brothers College at Clifton Hill and became a boot trader in 1922... |
Labor | Brunswick East Electoral district of Brunswick East Electoral district of Brunswick East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Brunswick East:... |
1955–1970 |
| Larry Floyd | Labor | Williamstown Electoral district of Williamstown Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km² urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville... |
1955–1973 |
| Hon Alexander Fraser Alexander Fraser (Australian politician) Alexander John Fraser was an Australian politician.Fraswer was educated at Kyneton College in Kyneton, Victoria, before becoming a company manager... |
Liberal | Caulfield Electoral district of Caulfield -See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*... |
1950–1952; 1955–1965 |
| Richard Gainey | Liberal | Elsternwick Electoral district of Elsternwick The Electoral district of Elsternwick was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 1945.-Members for Elsternwick:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1955–1967 |
| George Gibbs | Liberal | Portland Electoral district of Portland The electoral district of Portland was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Portland:... |
1955–1967 |
| Jack Ginifer | Labor | Grant | 1966–1982 |
| Jack Holden | Liberal | Moonee Ponds Electoral district of Moonee Ponds Electoral district of Moonee Ponds was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Moonee Ponds:... |
1955–1967 |
| Clyde Holding Clyde Holding Allan Clyde Holding Australian politician, was Leader of the Opposition in Victoria for ten years, and was later a federal minister.-Early life and education:... |
Labor | Richmond | 1962–1977 |
| Kevin Holland | Labor | Flemington Electoral district of Flemington Flemington was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was created in 1904 with the abolition of Essendon and Flemington, when it was won by Edward Warde, formerly the Labor member for that seat. It was briefly abolished in 1945 and recreated in 1955 before being abolished... |
1956–1967 |
| Philip Hudson | Liberal | Toorak | 1964–1967 |
| Hon Sir Herbert Hyland Herbert Hyland Sir Herbert John Thornhill Hyland , storekeeper, investor, and politician, was born on 15 March 1884 at Prahran, Melbourne, second son of George Hyland, a Victorian-born painter, and his wife Mary, née Thornhill, from Ireland... |
Country | Gippsland South Electoral district of Gippsland South The Electoral district of Gippsland South is a Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Eastern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council .... |
1929–1970 |
| Harry Jenkins, Sr. Harry Jenkins (senior) Henry Alfred Jenkins AM , Australian Labor politician, was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives during the term of the Labor government of Bob Hawke.... |
Labor | Reservoir Electoral district of Reservoir Electoral district of Reservoir was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Reservoir:... |
1961–1969 |
| Walter Jona Walter Jona Walter Jona was a former Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Early life and career:... |
Liberal | Hawthorn Electoral district of Hawthorn The Electoral district of Hawthorn is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1889 and has usually been a safe seat for the Liberal Party and its predecessors.... |
1964–1985 |
| Denis Lovegrove | Labor | Fitzroy | 1955–1973 |
| Sam Loxton Sam Loxton Samuel John Everett "Sam" Loxton OBE is a former Australian cricketer, footballer and politician. Among these three pursuits, his greatest achievements were attained on the cricket field; he played in 12 Tests for Australia from 1948 to 1951... |
Liberal | Prahran Electoral district of Prahran Prahran is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 12km² electorate in the inner south-east of Melbourne, taking in the suburbs of South Yarra, Prahran and Windsor, as well as parts of Balaclava, St Kilda, St Kilda East and Toorak... |
1955–1979 |
| Jim McCabe | Country | Lowan Electoral district of Lowan The Electoral district of Lowan is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Western Victoria Region of the Legislative Council .... |
1964–1967, 1970–1979 |
| Jim MacDonald Jim MacDonald (politician) James David "Jim" MacDonald was an Australian politician.Born in Bathurst, MacDonald married Valdree Mae Drewe, with whom he had three sons. He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in 1940, serving in New Guinea and the South Pacific until he was discharged in 1946. On his return he founded... |
Liberal | Burwood | 1955–1976 |
| Russell McDonald | Country | Rodney Electoral district of Rodney The Electoral district of Rodney is a Victorian Legislative Assembly electorate in Northern Victoria.The Rodney District covers an area of 7,808 square kilometres, including the towns of Echuca, Rochester, Nathalia, Cohuna, Heathcote, Gunbower, Kyabram, Rushworth and Stanhope.The district... |
1964–1973 |
| Hon Sir William McDonald | Liberal | Dundas | 1947–1952; 1955–1970 |
| Ian McLaren | Liberal | Caulfield Electoral district of Caulfield -See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*... |
1945–1947, 1965–1979 |
| Hon Jim Manson | Liberal | Ringwood Electoral district of Ringwood The Electoral district of Ringwood was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It was based in an agricultural region to the southwest of Launceston, Tasmania's second city.... |
1955–1973 |
| Hon Edward Meagher | Liberal | Mentone | 1955–1976 |
| Hon Tom Mitchell | Country | Benambra Electoral district of Benambra The Electoral district of Benambra is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is located in north-east Victoria and includes the towns of Chiltern, Wodonga, Yackandandah, Beechworth, Tallangatta, and Corryong... |
1947–1976 |
| Hon George Moss George Moss George Moss is a Christian, American rapper, artist, producer, actor, and radio host at 88.3 and 89.9 WAYfm. After the release of his debut solo album, "All or Nothing" in 2008 and a string of radio singles such as "Whoa!", "Get Right", "Transparent", and "Go Hard or Go Home", he quickly rose to... |
Country | Murray Valley Electoral district of Murray Valley The Electoral district of Murray Valley is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.It contains the towns of Cobram, Numurkah, Rutherglen, Wangaratta and Yarrawonga, as well as many other smaller towns.... |
1945–1973 |
| Charlie Mutton | Labor | Coburg Electoral district of Coburg Electoral district of Coburg was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Coburg:... |
1940–1967 |
| Bill Phelan | Country | Kara Kara | 1964–1970 |
| Murray Porter | Liberal | Sandringham Electoral district of Sandringham The Electoral district of Sandringham is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It consists of the Melbourne bayside suburbs of Beaumaris, Black Rock and Sandringham, and parts of Cheltenham, Hampton, Highett, and Mentone.... |
1955–1970 |
| Joe Rafferty | Liberal | Ormond Electoral district of Ormond Electoral district of Ormond was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Ormond:... |
1955–1979 |
| Hon George Reid | Liberal | Box Hill Electoral district of Box Hill The Electoral district of Box Hill is an eastern metropolitan electorate approximately 12 kilometres east of Melbourne, Australia in Victoria's Legislative Assembly.... |
1947–1952; 1955–1973 |
| Len Reid Len Reid Leonard Reid was a former Liberal Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Australian House of Representatives.... |
Liberal | Dandenong Electoral district of Dandenong The Electoral district of Dandenong is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It was first proclaimed in 1904 when the district of Dandenong and Berwick was abolished.... |
1958–1969 |
| Charlie Ring | Labor | Preston Electoral district of Preston The Electoral district of Preston is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It is currently based around the northern Melbourne suburbs of Preston and Reservoir. It has always been a safe Labor Party seat.... |
1955–1970 |
| Hon John Rossiter | Liberal | Brighton Electoral district of Brighton The Electoral district of Brighton is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Brighton:-Election results:-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories... |
1955–1976 |
| Hon Arthur Rylah Arthur Rylah Sir Arthur Gordon Rylah KBE CMG was an Australian politician and lawyer.-Background:Rylah was born in Kew, Melbourne. He was educated at Trinity Grammar and the University of Melbourne, graduating with a law degree from this university in 1932... |
Liberal | Kew Electoral district of Kew The Electoral district of Kew is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies a few kilometres east of Melbourne and is centred around the suburb of Kew and also contains parts of Balwyn and Canterbury.... |
1949–1971 |
| Alan Scanlan | Liberal | Oakleigh Electoral district of Oakleigh The Electoral district of Oakleigh is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the suburbs of Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Hughesdale, Oakleigh East, Oakleigh and parts of Chadstone, Glen Waverley, Mount Waverley, Glen Huntly and Ormond.The seat is Labor Party... |
1961–1979 |
| Roy Schintler | Labor | Yarraville Electoral district of Yarraville The Electoral district of Yarraville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Yarraville:... |
1955–1967 |
| Bill Stephen | Liberal | Ballarat South | 1964–1979 |
| Harold Stirling | Country | Swan Hill Electoral district of Swan Hill The Electoral district of Swan Hill is a rural Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament. It is located within the Northern Victoria Region of the Legislative Council .... |
1952–1968 |
| Russell Stokes Russell Stokes Russell Newton Stokes was an Australian politician.Born in Ivanhoe to manufacturer Henry Richmond Stokes and Emma Rowdon Wippell, he attended Melbourne Grammar School and became a manufacturer with the family firm Stokes & Sons, based in Brunswick. He was the managing director and chairman of the... |
Liberal | Evelyn Electoral district of Evelyn The Electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859.The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew... |
1958–1973 |
| Clive Stoneham Clive Stoneham Clive Philip Stoneham, OBE was an Australian politician. He was an ALP member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for 28 years from 1942 to 1970, representing the electorates of Maryborough and Daylesford and Midlands... |
Labor | Midlands Electoral district of Midlands The Electoral district of Midlands was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.-Members for Midlands:-See also:*Parliaments of the Australian states and territories*List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly... |
1942–1970 |
| Bob Suggett | Liberal | Moorabbin Electoral district of Moorabbin Electoral district of Moorabbin was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Moorabbin:... |
1955–1979 |
| Patrick Sutton | Labor | Albert Park Electoral district of Albert Park The Electoral district of Albert Park is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers the inner city suburbs of South Melbourne, Albert Park, Port Melbourne and St Kilda... |
1950–1970 |
| Edgar Tanner | Liberal | Ripponlea | 1955–1976 |
| Alex Taylor | Liberal | Balwyn Electoral district of Balwyn Electoral district of Balwyn was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Balwyn:... |
1955–1973 |
| Robert Trethewey | Liberal | Bendigo | 1964–1973 |
| Tom Trewin | Country | Benalla Electoral district of Benalla Benalla is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. The electorate covers a rural area of 17,120 km², and includes the towns of Benalla, Bright, Eildon, Euroa, Mansfield, Mount Beauty, Murchison, Myrtleford, Nagambie and Violet Town... |
1961–1982 |
| Neil Trezise Neil Trezise Neil Benjamin Trezise was an footballer in the VFL and Australian Labor Party politician, of Cornish descent.-Football career:... |
Labor | Geelong West | 1964–1992 |
| Campbell Turnbull | Labor | Brunswick West Electoral district of Brunswick West Electoral district of Brunswick West was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria.-Members for Brunswick West:... |
1955–1973 |
| Kenneth Wheeler | Liberal | Essendon Electoral district of Essendon The Electoral district of Essendon is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne and covers the suburbs of Essendon, Moonee Ponds and Ascot Vale... |
1958–1979 |
| Milton Whiting | Country | Mildura Electoral district of Mildura Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 27,162 km² rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale... |
1962–1988 |
| Hon Vernon Wilcox Vernon Wilcox Vernon Francis Wilcox CBE QC was an Australian politician. In a political career spanning twenty years, he represented the electorate of Camberwell in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and held many positions in the Victorian Cabinet... |
Liberal | Camberwell | 1956–1976 |
| Frank Wilkes Frank Wilkes Frank Noel Wilkes AM , Australian politician, was Leader of the Labor Opposition in Victoria from 1977 to 1981. Wilkes was born in Melbourne and educated at Northcote Primary and Secondary Schools and Preston Technical College. During the Second World War he served in the southwest Pacific in the... |
Labor | Northcote Electoral district of Northcote The Electoral district of Northcote is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently covers the suburbs of Alphington, Fairfield, Northcote, Thornbury, and part of Preston. It lies on the northern bank of the Yarra River between the Merri and Darebin creeks.The seat... |
1957–1988 |
| John Wilton John Wilton (Australian politician) John Wilton was the member for Broadmeadows in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1962 to 1985. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.-References:... |
Labor | Broadmeadows Electoral district of Broadmeadows The Electoral district of Broadmeadows is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly created in 1952. The seat is currently based on the suburbs of Broadmeadows, Campbellfield, Coolaroo, Dallas and Jacana... |
1962–1985 |
| Ray Wiltshire | Liberal | Mulgrave Electoral district of Mulgrave (Victoria) The Electoral district of Mulgrave is situated in the South-East of the Melbourne Metropolitan Region. The Electorate contains the suburbs of Mulgrave and Noble Park North. It also conatins parts of the suburbs of Dandernong North, Noble Park, Springvale and Wheelers Hill... |
1955–1976 |
- On 9 July 1965, the Liberal member for CaulfieldElectoral district of Caulfield-See also:* Parliaments of the Australian states and territories* List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly-External links:*...
, Alexander FraserAlexander Fraser (Australian politician)Alexander John Fraser was an Australian politician.Fraswer was educated at Kyneton College in Kyneton, Victoria, before becoming a company manager...
, died. Liberal candidate Ian McLaren won the resulting by-election on 18 September 1965. - On 19 August 1966, the Labor member for Grant, Roy Crick, died. Labor candidate Jack Ginifer won the resulting by-election on 8 October 1966.