Parliamentary Service |
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Liberal
Joined Liberal Party 1958
President
Margaret River branch |
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20 February 1971 |
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Vasse |
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Electorates,
- MLA Vasse 20 February 1971–14 December 1996
Office
- Shadow Minister for Forests, Fisheries and Wildlife, special responsibility for Bunbury 2000 from March 1983 to 13 March 1984; for Lands, Surveys, South West Development, Forests from 13 March 1984 to 19 March 1986; for Environment, Lands and Aboriginal Affairs from November 1986 to 26 April 1988; for Agriculture and Aboriginal Affairs from 26 April 1988 to 7 March 1989; assisting the Shadow Minister for Aboriginal Affairs from 17 June 1990 to 24 May 1992; Conservation and Land Management from 18 August 1992 to 16 February 1993 (Coalition Shadow Minister from 24 November 1992)
- Opposition Whip, from 7 March 1989 to 24 May 1992
Committees
- Deputy Chairman, Committees, 1974–1982
- Chairman of Committees, from 23 March 1982 to 21 March 1983
- Member, Joint Printing Committee, 1989–1993
- Member, Joint House Committee, from August 1990 to 20 October 1993–14 November 1996
- Member, Public Accounts and Expenditure Review Committee, from 29 June 1993 to 14 November 1996
- Member, Joint Select Committee on Offices of Profit of MPs and Members’ Contracts with the Crown, from October 1980 to November 1982
- Member, Select Committee on the Water Bill, from May 1991 to March 1992
- Deputy Chairman, Select Committee on Grape (Wine) Growing Industry of WA 1985
Royal Commissions
- Chairman, Hon Royal Commission on Dairy Products and Market Milk, 1981–1982
- Member, Hon Royal Commission on Marketing and Distribution of Beef and Sheep Meats Products, 1975–1976
Miscellaneous
- Member, Parliamentary South Coast Timber Enquiry 1979
- Participated in UK Government sponsored study into Energy, Conservation and Environment in Britain 1980
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- Executive member, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, WA branch, 1979–1983
- Represented WA branch at Australasian Area Conference, Brisbane, 1975 and at Parliamentary Seminar 1982
Historical Notes
- Father of the House, from 6 February 1993 to 14 December 1996
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 Blaikie, Barry Roy, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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Personal Information |
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1 April 1935 |
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Margaret River, Western Australia |
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16 May 2012 |
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Wembley, Western Australia |
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Taken by Funeral Director at Pinnaroo Valley Memorial Park, WA |
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Son of George Strachan Blaikie, farmer, and Eva Jean Kilgren |
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Married 26 January 1957, Congregational Church, Augusta, Betty May Robinson, daughter of Alaric Roy and Margaret Mary Fairclough
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Uniting Church |
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Educated at Cowaramup Primary School and Bunbury High School, Western Australia
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Farmer |
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Dairy farmer, Cowaramup after school
Commenced contracting two to three years later
Foundation director, Margaret River Cheese Company |
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Councillor, Augusta–Margaret River Shire, 1965–1971 |
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President, secretary, delegate in Farmers Union (subsequently Primary Industry Association)
Honorary member, Busselton Rotary Club
Founding president and member, Leeuwin Conservation Group
Member, Cowaramup Hall and Reserve Committee
Member, Jaycees Margaret River and Busselton |
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D Black and G Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, eds, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 19.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 22 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=146271bb-d51c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9 |
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