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Electorates
- MLA Canning 20 February 1965–23 March 1968
- Contested Canning 23 March 1968
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented Western Australia branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at 9th Australia Area Conference, Darwin, 1967
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Personal Information |
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29 March 2000 |
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Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Western Australia |
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Taken by administrator at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Journalist, editor, businessperson and television commentator |
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Employed with Elder Smith and Company 1945
In family business, stock agency, Waroona 1946–1948
With Hardie Trading Limited, Perth 1949–1950
Proof reader Sydney Morning Herald 1951
Proprietor sports goods store Bunbury 1952–1956
Entered journalism with South-West Times Bunbury 1956–1959
Editorial department (chief sports writer) Daily News and TVW7 1959–1965, chief football writer and television panellist
Journalist (senior features writer) 1968–1969
As journalist covered many major news and sporting events including Dwellingup fires, Meckering earthquake and Commonwealth Games 1962
Own public relations business 1969–1975
Corporate manager Golden West Network 1975–1980
Managing editor, Provincial Publications WA 1980–1986, based at Rockingham
Editor Mandurah Telegraph 1986–1991
Subsequently own media consulting business
Founded Football Register which was published almost continuously from 1964 to the 1990s |
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Moved to Dwellingup and then to Mandurah
Member Australian Journalists Association
One time member Apex, Lions and several sporting clubs |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 81-82. |
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