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Mrs Pamela Anne Beggs
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Birth | | Date: 23 May 1947
Place: Inverell, New South Wales, Australia |
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Parents |  | Daughter of Horace Joseph Austin, tin miner and Thelma Ruby Wilson |
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Marriage and Family |  | Married 9 December 1972, St Benedict’s Church, Applecross to Thomas Glennie Beggs, son of Thomas Glennie and Euphemia Pattison Sneddon
Children: three daughters |
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Religion |  | Not stated |
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Education |  | Greenbushes Primary School, Bridgetown High School and St Joseph’s College, Bunbury |
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Occupation |  | Home duties |
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Employment History |  | In Women’s Royal Australian Air Force 1965–1969, then worked as dietician, laboratory assistant and small business operator
After marriage, owned and operated a roadhouse in Geraldton for a time
After leaving politics owned and operated with her husband a food outlet business in Whitfords and later a gift shop |
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House |  | MLA |
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Party |  | Labor
Joined Australian Labor Party 1977 |
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Date Elected |  | 19 February 1983 |
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Inaugural Speech |  | |
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Speeches |  | Search for speeches by Pamela Beggs |
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Year Retired/Resigned |  | 1993 |
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Electorate |  | Whitford |
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Parliamentary Service |  | Electorates
- MLA Whitford 19 February 1983–6 February 1993
- Contested Whitford 6 February 1993
Office
- Minister for Tourism, Racing and Gaming, and Housing (from 23 February 1988) 26 February 1986–28 February 1989
- Minister for Housing and Planning 28 February 1989–19 February 1990
- Minister for Transport, Racing and Gaming, and Tourism 19 February 1990–16 February 1993
Committees
- Member Joint House Committee 1983–1986
- Member Select Committee on Adoption of Children Amendment Bill 1983–1985
- Represented WA branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) at 18th Australasian and Pacific Region Conference, Port Vila, Vanuatu, 1985
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Background/Membership |  | Justice of the Peace |
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References |  | D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010 , p. 13. |
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Further Information |  | Chapter 14. Pam Beggs Making a Differencepdf.pdf |
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