Carrol Athelstone Bramich (30 October 1893 – 1 October 1964) was an Australian politician. He was born in Penguin, Tasmania

Penguin, Tasmania

Penguin is a town in the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. It is located in the Central Coast Council Local Government Area on the Bass Highway, between Burnie and Ulverstone. At the 2006 census, Penguin had a population of 2,943....

. In 1946 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly

Tasmanian House of Assembly

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 as one of the Labor

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 members for Darwin

Division of Braddon (state)

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; he served as a minister from 1948. In 1956 he resigned from the ministry and the Labor Party, and joined the Liberal Party

Liberal Party of Australia

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; with the exception of Western Australian Labor MP Vince Catania

Vince Catania

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's defection to the National Party

National Party of Western Australia

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in 2009, this is the most recent example of an Australian MP crossing the floor to join the Opposition. Bramich retired from politics in 1964 and died later that year.