Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1989–1993
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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
between 22 May 1989 and 21 May 1993. This was the first membership of the Council to be elected under the multi-member electorate system established by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987 (No.40 of 1987) where members were selected by proportional representation within six regions.
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...
between 22 May 1989 and 21 May 1993. This was the first membership of the Council to be elected under the multi-member electorate system established by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987 (No.40 of 1987) where members were selected by proportional representation within six regions.
Name | Party | Province | Years in office |
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Diane Airey Diane Airey Diane Phyllis Airey is a former Australian politician.Airey was born in Perth. She was appointed to the Western Australian Legislative Council in February 1993 to replace Phillip Pendal, who had resigned to contest the Legislative Assembly. She served as a Liberal MLC until May, when she did not... |
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... |
South Metropolitan Electoral region of South Metropolitan The electoral region of South Metropolitan is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the southern suburbs of Perth. It was created by the Acts Amendment Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the... |
1993 |
Joe Berinson Joe Berinson Joseph Max "Joe" Berinson is a former Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives from the 1969 election until his defeat by Ross McLean at the 1975 election, representing the division of Perth, Western Australia... |
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... |
North Metropolitan Electoral region of North Metropolitan The electoral region of North Metropolitan is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the north-western and western suburbs of Perth. It was created by the Acts Amendment Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with seven members who had been... |
1980–1993 |
James Brown | Labor | Agricultural Electoral region of Agricultural The electoral region of Agricultural is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state... |
1980–1992 |
Tom Butler | Labor | East Metropolitan Electoral region of East Metropolitan The electoral region of East Metropolitan is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the eastern and south-eastern suburbs of Perth. It was created by the Acts Amendment Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been... |
1986–1995 |
John Caldwell | National National Party of Western Australia The National Party of Western Australia is a political party in Western Australia. It is affiliated with the National Party of Australia but maintains a separate structure and identity.... |
Agricultural | 1986–1993 |
George Cash George Cash Samuel Ernest Cash, AM is a former Australian politician, who represented the Liberal Party.... |
Liberal | North Metropolitan | 1989–2009 |
Kim Chance Kim Chance Kim Chance is a former Australian Labor Party MP in the Parliament of Western Australia, and was Minister for Agriculture and Food, Forestry, the Mid West and Wheatbelt and Great Southern until the September 2008 WA election... |
Labor | Agricultural | 1992–2009 |
Eric Charlton Eric Charlton Eric James Charlton is a former Australian politician.Charlton was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council in 1984 as a National Party member for Agricultural Region, replacing the deceased MLC William Atkinson. He served in the Council until his resignation in 1998... |
National | Agricultural | 1984–1998 |
Cheryl Davenport | Labor | South Metropolitan | 1989–2001 |
Reg Davies | Liberal/Independent | North Metropolitan | 1989–1997 |
Graham Edwards Graham Edwards (politician) Graham John Edwards , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1998 to 2007, representing the Division of Cowan.... |
Labor | North Metropolitan | 1986–1997 |
Max Evans | Liberal | North Metropolitan | 1986–2001 |
Valma Ferguson | Labor | East Metropolitan | 1993; 1995–1997 |
Peter Foss | Liberal | East Metropolitan | 1989–2005 |
Clive Griffiths | Liberal | South Metropolitan | 1965–1997 |
John Halden John Halden Stanley John Halden , at Fremantle, Western Australia, is a former member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.Halden was educated in Western Australia and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Social Work... |
Labor | South Metropolitan | 1986–2000 |
Kay Hallahan Kay Hallahan Elsie Kay Hallahan , commonly known as Kay Hallahan, is an Australian politician. A member of the Labor Party, she served as a minister in the Burke, Dowding and Lawrence ministries in Western Australia, and was the first woman ever to sit in both the Western Australian Legislative Assembly and the... |
Labor | East Metropolitan | 1989–1993 |
Tom Helm | Labor | Mining and Pastoral Electoral region of Mining and Pastoral The electoral region of Mining and Pastoral is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the northern and eastern regions of the State. It was created by the Acts Amendment Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been... |
1986–2001 |
Barry House Barry House Barry John House is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Western Australian Legislative Council since 1987, representing the region of South West.House was born in Busselton, Western Australia... |
Liberal | South West Electoral region of South West The electoral region of South West is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state... |
1987–present |
Beryl Jones | Labor | South West | 1986–1993 |
Garry Kelly | Labor | South Metropolitan | 1982–1993 |
Phil Lockyer | Liberal | Mining and Pastoral | 1980–1997 |
Margaret McAleer Margaret McAleer Margaret McAleer was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1974 to 1993.... |
Liberal | Agricultural | 1974–1993 |
Fred McKenzie | Labor | East Metropolitan | 1977–1993 |
Murray Montgomery | National | South West | 1989–2001 |
Norman Moore | Liberal | Mining and Pastoral | 1977–present |
Mark Nevill | Labor | Mining and Pastoral | 1983–2001 |
Muriel Patterson | Liberal | South West | 1989–2001 |
Phillip Pendal Phillip Pendal Phillip George Pendal was a Liberal and later Independent Western Australian politician, pro-life advocate, and historian.-Early life:... |
Liberal | South Metropolitan | 1980–1993 |
Sam Piantadosi | Labor | North Metropolitan | 1983–1996 |
Bob Pike | Liberal | North Metropolitan | 1977–1983; 1989–1994 |
Tom Stephens Tom Stephens Thomas Gregory Stephens is a West Australian parliamentarian. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Parliament of Western Australia since 1982, serving in the Legislative Council from 1982 to 2004, and in the Legislative Assembly since 2005... |
Labor | Mining and Pastoral | 1982–2004 |
Bill Stretch | Liberal | South West | 1983–2005 |
Bob Thomas | Labor | South West | 1989–2001 |
Derrick Tomlinson Derrick Tomlinson Derrick Gordon Tomlinson is a former Australian politician.Tomlinson was born at Subiaco and was a university lecturer before entering politics. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for East Metropolitan Region in 1989 for the Liberal Party. In 1990 he was appointed Shadow... |
Liberal | East Metropolitan | 1989–2005 |
Doug Wenn | Labor | South West | 1986–1997 |
David Wordsworth | Liberal | Agricultural | 1971–1993 |