Parliamentary Service |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Murchison–Eyre, 8 February 1986–4 February 1989 (seat abolished in redistribution)
- MLC North Metropolitan Region, 22 May 1993–16 May 1997 (resigned–had been re-elected for term commencing 22 May 1997)
- Contested Kalgoorlie, 19 February 1983
Committees
- Member, House Committee, 23 June 1993–14 November 1996
- Member, Standing Committee on Legislation, 3 August 1993–14 November 1996
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Senate, 19 May 1997 (elected by State Parliament to fill casual vacancy)–30 June 2008
Committees
- Temporary Chairman of Committees, 23 August 1999–12 February 2002
- Member, Standing Committee on Publications, 30 June 1999–1 July 2002 (Chair)
- Member, Standing Committee on Senators’ Interests, 6 November 2000–October 2007
- Member, Standing House Committee, 1 July 2002–11 February 2008
- Member, Legislation and General Purpose Standing Committee on Environment, Recreation, Communications and the Arts Legislation Committee, 27 May 1997–9 November 1998
- Member, References Committee, 30 June 1999–21 June 2000
- Member, Finance and Public Administration References Committee, 29 May 1997–9 November 1998 and Legislation Committee, 30 June 1999–1 July 2002; Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade References Committee 21 October 1997–1 July 2002, and Legislation Committee, 13 April 2000–9 May 2000
- Member, Community Affairs Legislation Committee, 14 May 1998–11 March 1999
- Member, Employment, Workplace Relations and Education Committee, 12 September 2006–11 February 2008 (also participating member of several other committees)
- Member Select Committee on the Socio-Economic Consequences of the National Competition Policy, 22 April 1999–17 February 2000
- Member, Select Committee on Superannuation and Financial Services, 29 September 1999–11 February 2002
- Member, Select Committee on Superannuation, 14 March 2002–10 September 2003
- Member, Select Committee on the Lucas Heights Reactor, 17 August 2000–24 May 2001
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories, 27 May 1997 (Chairman from 8 December 1999)–17 October 2007
- Member, Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters, 21 October 1992–30 June 1999
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Member, Parliamentary Delegation to 44th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, October 1998
Delegations
- Member, various parliamentary delegations to overseas countries 2002–2005
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Personal Information |
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11 August 1936 |
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Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia |
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11 January 2024 |
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Dementia TBC |
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Bowral, NSW. TBC |
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1968 |
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Son of John Percy Kenneth Lightfoot and Thelma May Forrest |
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Married (1) circa 1957 to Bonnie Fay Coleman
Children: one son and two daughters
Divorced
Married (2) 12 March 1973, Nedlands to Susan Elizabeth Walker, daughter of Joseph Herbert Walker and Sheila Harewood-Webster
Children: one son and one daughter
Divorced
Married (3) to Anne Ferguson-Stewart |
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Church of England |
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Educated Port Lincoln Primary School, Port Lincoln High School, Adelaide School of Mines and Kalgoorlie School of Mines
Left school at thirteen years
Spent short period at Seemore School of Infantry for NCOs
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Farmer and businessperson |
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Member, Citizens Military Forces, 1951–1952
National Service trainee, 1953–1955
Plasterer and jackaroo
Employee, South Australian Mounted Police, 1961–1963
Associated with mining industry from 1963
Owner and manager, several properties in Gascoyne and Shark Bay areas—Mooloo Downs and Hamelin Pool
Farmer, Chittering
Grazier, Sandstone region from 1983
Exploration and gold mining interests including founding chairman, Southern Goldfields Mining Co and director, Eureka Minerals Ltd
Chairman, A-Cap (director from 1987), mining exploration company |
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Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1995
Awarded Australian Defence Force Medal, 2005 |
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Resident, Port Lincoln, 1959
Member, Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association Ltd
Member, Association of Mining and Exploration Companies
Member, Geological Society
Member, Pastoralists and Graziers Association
Member, Stud Merino Breeders Society
Member, Primary Industry Association
Member, Royal Agricultural Society
National Patron, Extremely Disabled War Veterans’ Association of Australia and WA Patron
Member, American–Australian Association
Life member, Australian Defence Association
Life Fellow, International Biographical Association, Cambridge
Director, International Advisory Committee, European Foundation, London
Justice of the Peace, 1986
Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, 1995
Awarded Australian Defence Force Medal, 2005
Member, Western Australian Cricket Association
Owner and resident, farm at Unicup, near Manjimup, 2010 |
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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. 152.
Sunday Times, 19 October 1986.
West Australian, 18 November 1985, 29 February 1988.
Western Mail, 5–6 April 1986.
Who's Who in Australia, (1988) |
Bibliography |
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Vale Ross Lightfoot.pdf |