Cyril Graham Primmer was an Australia

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n politician. Born in Warrnambool, Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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, he was educated at state schools before becoming a dairy farmer at Koroit

Koroit, Victoria

Koroit is a small rural town in western Victoria, Australia a few kilometres north of the Princes Highway, north-west of Warrnambool and west of Melbourne. It is in the Shire of Moyne local government area located amidst rolling green pastures on the North rim of Tower Hill. At the 2006 census,...

. He served in the military 1943-1945, and was a member of Belfast Shire Council. In 1970, he was elected to the Australian Senate

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 as a Labor

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Senator for Victoria. He remained in the Senate until his retirement in 1984. Primmer died in 2003.