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Liberal
Member of Liberal Party since 1980
Vice-president
Albany branch 1983–1984
president 1984–1987 (first woman) |
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22 May 1989 |
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South-West |
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Electorates
- MLC South-West Region, 22 May 1989–21 May 2001. Elected to the Thirty-third Parliament for South West Region on 4 February 1989 for term commencing 22 May 1989. Re-elected 1993, 1996 (for term commencing 22 May 1997). Retired 21 May 2001.
Office
- Government Whip, February 1993–21 May 2001
- Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, 24 May 1992–24 November 1992
- Coalition Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs, 24 November 1992–16 February 1993
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees 1989–1993
- Member, Standing Orders Committee September 1989–January 1993
- Member, Estimates and Financial Operations Committee 13 November 1991–10 January 2001
- Member, Library Committee 23 June 1993–10 June 1998
- Member, Constitutional Affairs and Statutes Revision 10 April–26 June 1997
- Chairman, Select Committee on Achievements of Indigenous Peoples of Australia 11 June 1991–4 June 1992
- Member, Select Committee on De Facto Relationships 28 September 1989–17 October 1990
- Member, Select Committee on Immunisation and Vaccination Rates in Children 25 November 1997–11 August 1999
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented WA branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at the 39th General Conference, Cyprus, September 1993
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 Patterson, Muriel Grace, Valedictory Speech.pdf |
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Personal Information |
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20 September 1931 |
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Katanning, Western Australia |
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Daughter of Charles Lewis Quartermaine, farmer, and Grace Gertrude Harris |
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Married 7 April 1951, Katanning Baptist Church to Rolstun William Patterson, son of Rolstun Thomas and May Eleanor Patterson
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Baptist |
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Educated Woodanilling State School, Perth Technical College (external studies) and Albany Technical College
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Businessperson |
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Established a farm with her husband in virgin country at Tambellup, 1964
Part-time teacher of dressmaking, design and craft at Albany Technical College, 1969–1977
Opened Boolah Craft Supplies, craft supplies retail shop in Albany 1976, after leaving politics assisted daughter and son-in-law with the business |
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Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), 12 June 2023 for service to the Parliament of Western Australia |
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Member, Albany Chamber of Commerce from 1976; executive member, 1978–1988, vice-president, 1983–1984, president (first woman), 1984–1986
Member, State Council WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry 1984–1988, state executive, 1987– 1988 (first woman)
Teacher in Adult Aboriginal Education programme in Dressmaking, Crafts and Home Management, 1970–1979
Original selection of Country Voluntary Homemakers in Native Welfare Department (later Community Welfare Department) working in areas of State Housing Flats, migrants, widows and widowers and single parent families, 1969–1980
Statutory member, Advisory Board Albany Technical College, 1980–1983
Secretary-treasurer, Albany Voluntary Community Group, 1970–1975
President, Tambellup Country Womens' Association, 1966–1967
District chairman, Albany Red Shield Appeal, 1985
Treasurer, Albany Crippled Children’s Committee, 1978–1979 |
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Australian Honours Search Facility, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Australian Government. Accessed 13 June 2023. https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2014209
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. 206-207.
Making a Difference, p. 172–177
Parliament of Western Australia, Former Members, Parliament of Western Australia website, accessed 21 May 2014. |
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