Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Joined Australian Labor Party 1977 |
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19 February 1983 |
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Whitford |
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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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Search for speeches by Pamela Beggs |
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Personal Information |
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23 May 1947 |
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Inverell, New South Wales, Australia |
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Daughter of Horace Joseph Austin, tin miner and Thelma Ruby Wilson |
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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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Not stated |
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Greenbushes Primary School, Bridgetown High School and St Joseph’s College, Bunbury |
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Home duties |
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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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Justice of the Peace |
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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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 Chapter 14. Pam Beggs Making a Differencepdf.pdf |