Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Member
Australian Labor Party from 1959
Member
State Council in South Australia
Member
State Executive
WA |
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22 May 1977 |
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East |
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State
Electorates
- MLC East Metropolitan Province, 22 May 1977–21 May 1983; South-East Metropolitan Province 22 May 1983–21 May 1989
Office
- Deputy Leader of the Opposition in Legislative Council, 1977–1980
- Opposition Spokesman, Education and Electoral Matters, March 1978–1980
- Secretary, State Parliamentary Labor Party, April 1983–1989
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees, 1980–1989
- Member, Standing Orders Committee, 1980–1989
- Member, Library Committee, 1980–1986
- Member, Standing Committee on Government Agencies, 1982–October 1985
- Member, Joint House Committee, 1986–1989
- Chairman Joint Standing Committee on Delegated Legislation, December 1987–1989
- Member, Joint Select Committee on Offices of Profit of MPs and Members’ Contracts with the Crown, 21 October 1980–3 November 1982
- Member, Select Committee on the Appointment of a Standing Committee to Inquire into Government Agencies, September 1 October 1980–1 April 1981
- Member, Select Committee on a Matter of Privilege, 18 October–20 December 1983
- Member, Select Committee on Agricultural Education, 16 June 1987–24 June 1988
- Member, Parliamentary History Advisory Committee, 1986–1989
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Represented WA branch Commonwealth Parliamentary Association at General Conference Westminster, United Kingdom, 1986
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Contested Senate 18 May 1974, 13 December 1975
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Personal Information |
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8 January 1923 |
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Mt Gambier, South Australia, Australia |
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30 January 2015 |
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Highgate, Western Australia |
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Taken by Funeral Director at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Kenneth Harold Hetherington, life assurance representative, and Susan Minnie Goodfellow |
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Married 6 July 1951, South Australia to Penelope Loveday, university senior lecturer and historian, daughter of Ronald Redvers Loveday (South Australian MHA 1956–1968 and Minister of the Crown 1965–1968) and Lizzie Hillary Mills
Children: two sons and one daughter |
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Catholic |
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Educated Mt Gambier Primary School, Moonta and Kadina High Schools, South Australia; Box Hill High School, Victoria, 1937–1938
University of Adelaide, 1947–1950, BA (Hons) in History and Political Science, 1951
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University lecturer |
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Junior clerk, WD & HO Wills (Australia) Ltd, 1939–1942
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force, 13 January 1942
Served with 1/54 Anti-Aircraft and Search Light Company in Darwin, then Advanced Land Headquarters—Sergeant in New Guinea and Morotai
Discharged, 20 September 1946
After completing University studies, employed as clerk with Commonwealth Employment Service 1951
Research scholar, University of Adelaide, 1952
History master, Kings College, Kensington Park, SA, 1953–1956
Tutor and senior tutor in politics, University of Adelaide, 1957–1966
Lecturer in politics, University of Western Australia, 1967–May 1977
Tutor, University of Western Australia, Department of Politics 1989–1992
Tutor, Murdoch University, February 1993–July 1995 |
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Medal of the Order of Australia
(OAM) awarded 14 June 2004 for service to the community, particularly through the Schizophrenia Fellowship, and to the Western Australian Parliament |
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Member, Public Service Association 1951, University of Adelaide Staff Association, 1957–1966
Member, Management Committee, University of Western Australia, Academic Staff Association, 1966–1977
Member, King’s Park Board, 1990–1993
Member, Senate Murdoch University, September 1990–September 1993
Member, Boards Schizophrenia Fellowship, 1990–1998 (president 1992–1997)
Member, WA Association for Mental Health, 1996–1999
Author of publications including:
- Co-author: RL Reid, The South Australian Elections 1959 (Adelaide, 1966)
- Several chapters in GS Reid (ed.), The Western Australian Elections 1974 (Nedlands, 1976)
- Article on George Gawler in Australian Dictionary of Biography (Melbourne, 1966)
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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. 120-121.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 5 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=ca85059e-8d1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
Bibliography |
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An interview with Robert Hetherington, 14 August 1986 (State Library and WA Parliament Library)
West Australian, 21 February 1977, 1 November 1982. |