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Electorates
- MLA Victoria Park 26 August 1961 (by-election)–16 April 1986 (resigned)
Office
- Leader of the Opposition, 1978–1981
- Opposition Whip, 1968–1971
- Minister for Prices Control, Consumer Protection, Health (until 6 July 1972), Fisheries and Fauna (until 6 July 1972), Environmental Protection (from 12 October 1971), and Town Planning (from 6 July 1972) 3 March 1971–8 April 1974
- Opposition spokesman for Health and Community Welfare 1974–March 1978
- Leader of the Opposition 21 February 1978–18 September 1981
- Spokesman for Treasury, Immigration, Ethnic and Cultural Affairs March 1978–September 1981, for Urban Development and Town Planning, and Cultural Affairs September 1981–February 1983
- Minister for the Environment, Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs, The Arts, Forests (from 20 December 1984 until 22 March 1985), and Conservation and Land Management (from 22 March 1985) 26 February 1983–26 February 1986
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees, 1965–1968
- Member, Select Committee on Fremantle Buffalo Club (Private) Bill 1964
- Member, Select Committee on City Club (Private) Bill 1965
- Member, Select Committee on the Perpetual Executors Trustees and Agency Co (WA) Limited (Private) Bill and WA Trustee Executor and Agency Company Limited (Private) Bills 1966
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Personal Information |
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11 April 1926 |
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North Perth, Western Australia |
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24 July 2011 |
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St James, Western Australia |
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Crematorium Rose Gardens, Karrakatta Cemetery |
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William Sylvannus Davies, miner and chemical worker, and May Jones |
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Married 11 April 1970, Wesley Church, Perth to Frances Irene McGlew (nee Hackett), daughter of Thomas and May Ahern
Children: one daughter |
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Uniting Church |
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Educated at North Perth Primary School and Perth Modern School
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Union secretary |
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Messenger boy, Peters Ice Cream at age fifteen years
Clerk, Western Australian Government Railways Stores branch Midland Junction, 1941–1944
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, 22 April 1944
Air-crew trainee
Served in Australia
Leading aircraftman
Discharged 31 August 1945
Employee, Western Australian Government Railways, 1945–1951
Branch secretary, and then (from 1951) assistant general secretary, WA Railway Officers’ Union until elected to parliament
Agent-General for Western Australia, 9 June 1986–31 March 1990 |
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Held various executive positions in district councils |
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Member of the Order of Australia, awarded 11 June 1990 for service to the WA Parliament and to the community
Centenary of Federation Medal 2003 |
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Delegate (adviser), International Labour Organisation Conference, Geneva, 1957
Represented Australian Council of Trade Unions at International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Tunisia, 1957
Member, Duke of Edinburgh’s 2nd Commonwealth Study Conference, Canada 1962, also visited US with a Leaders’ Grant
Member, executive Western Australian Trades Union Industrial Council
Freeman, City of London and former member Guild of Freemen
Freeman, Borough of Islwyn, South Wales, 1996
Chairman, Swan River Trust and member of Waterways Commission, 1991–1994
Member, Advisory Panel to Commissioner City of Canning, 1991
President and administrator, Victoria Park Senior Citizens’ Welfare Association, 1990–2003, continued as president, life member and former treasurer
Chairman, Kensington Police and Citizens Youth Club and Lady Gowrie Child Centre
Former State President and executive member, Western Australian Torchbearers for Legacy—life member
Justice of the Peace, 1983
Member, Western Australia Heritage Council, 27 April 2004–December 2007
Member, Premier’s Water Foundation, 2003–2007
Patron, Perth Football Club
Member, Board and Secretary of The Graduate College of Dance from 1992
Supporter, Graduate College of Dance, 1992–2000
Held various executive positions in State Executive, special events committees |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930, Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 65.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 28 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=e19ff7f9-8e1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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 Davies, Ronald, Oral History.pdf |