Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Liberal
Joined Liberal Party from 1949
Member
Morawa branch
Conference delegate |
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1 November 1975 |
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Greenough |
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Electorates
- MLA Greenough, 1 November 1975 (by-election)–4 February 1989
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1980–1983
- Member, Library Committee 1980–1989
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1989 |
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Personal Information |
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1924 |
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Geraldton, Western Australia |
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14 October 2015 |
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Joondalup, Western Australia |
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Taken by administrator at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, Western Australia |
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Son of John William Tubby, farmer, and Constance Edith Jones |
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Married 9 March 1946, Long Plains, South Australia to Marjorie Kathleen Marsh, daughter of Charles Marsh and Kathleen Hutchinson
Children: three sons and one daughter
Father of Frederick Charles Tubby MLA |
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Church of England |
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Educated Gutha State School and Narrogin School of Agriculture
Completed Leaving certificate
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Farmer |
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Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 16 January 1943—Leading Aircraftman
Served in Northern Territory, May 1944–July 1944
Discharged 8 April 1946
Took over abandoned farm (wheat, sheep, cattle and pigs) at Gutha, Shire of Morawa, until 1976 |
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Member, Morawa Road Board and Shire Council April, 1953–May 1976
Shire president for nine years and deputy president for four years |
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Member, Farmers’ Union (president of branch), Primary Industry Association, WA Farmers’ Federation and various agricultural societies
Justice of the Peace
Member, Return Services League of Australia and Airforce Association
President, Morawa Boy Scouts Association for 15 years
Member, Advisory Committee Morawa High School Agricultural Centre
Patron of St John Ambulance Association and Historical Society, Geraldton
President, Gutha Tennis Club
Member, management committee and patron Morawa Golf and Bowling Clubs, also Kalbarri clubs
Member and president, Geraldton Probus Club
Member, National Seniors Association and management committee Geraldton Queen Elizabeth Seniors Centre
Member, committee Justices Association, Geraldton
Member, MidWest Woodworkers Club
Member, Bushfires Board
Member, Chapman Valley Football Club
Lived in Geraldton after entering Parliament
Retired to Perth, 2000
Wife, Marjorie was narrowly defeated for Geraldton in Legislative Assembly election, 1986 |
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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. 264.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 20 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=964ce522-8c1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c0bd |
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