Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1967–1970
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This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council, is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Australia; the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to...

between 1967 and 1970. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1964 state election
Victorian state election, 1964
Elections were held in the Australian state of Victoria on 27 June 1964 to elect the 66 members of the state's Legislative Assembly and 17 members of the 34-member Legislative Council...

 with terms expiring in 1970, while the other half were elected at the 1967 state election with terms expiring in 1973.

A redistribution in 1965 saw Southern Province abolished and Boronia
Boronia Province
Boronia Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished progressively in 1992 and 1996 and was replaced with Koonung Province.-Members for Boronia Province:...

 and Templestowe
Templestowe Province
Templestowe Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1967 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was traditionally held by the Liberal Party of Australia, but was held by the Australian Labor Party on two...

 created in its place. The redistribution was carried out in a staggered manner so that in this term, there was one MLC for each of the abolished and new provinces, with the redistribution becoming complete at the 1970 election.
Name Party Province Term expires Term of office
Keith Bradbury  Country
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...

 
North Eastern  1973 1953–1978
Sir Percy Byrnes Country North Western  1970 1942–1969
Hon Murray Byrne  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 
Ballarat  1970 1958–1976
Bill Campbell  Liberal East Yarra
East Yarra Province
East Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for East Yarra Province:...

 
1973 1964–1983
Ian Cathie
Ian Cathie
Ian Robert Cathie is a former Australian politician.Born in Melbourne to printer George Mitchell Cathie and Sybil Balding, he attended state schools and then the University of Melbourne, where he studied teaching. On 5 January 1957 he married Christine Watson, with whom he had four children; he...

 
Labor
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
South Eastern  1970 1964–1970
Hon Gilbert Chandler
Gilbert Chandler
Sir Gilbert Lawrence Chandler, CMG, KBE was a Liberal Party of Australia politician who served in the Bolte Ministry in Victoria....

 
Liberal Boronia
Boronia Province
Boronia Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished progressively in 1992 and 1996 and was replaced with Koonung Province.-Members for Boronia Province:...

 
1973 1935–1973
Michael Clarke  Country Northern  1970 1964–1976
Hon Vance Dickie  Liberal Ballarat 1973 1956–1978
Bernie Dunn Country North Western 1970 1969–1988
Doug Elliot  Labor Melbourne  1973 1960–1979
William Fry  Liberal Higinbotham
Higinbotham Province
Higinbotham Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1937 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was considered a safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia throughout its history, though it was won by...

 
1973 1967–1979
John Galbally
John Galbally
John William 'Jack' Galbally CBE, QC was an Australian Labor Party politician.-Early life:Galbally was educated at St Patrick's College in East Melbourne and Melbourne High School...

 
Labor Melbourne North
Melbourne North Province
Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne North Province:...

 
1973 1949–1979
William Garrett  Liberal Southern  1970 1958–1976
Stan Gleeson  Liberal South Western  1973 1965–1979
Jock Granter  Liberal Bendigo  1970 1964–1988
Fred Grimwade
Fred Grimwade
Frederick Sheppard "Fred" Grimwade was an Australian politician.Grimwade was born in Melbourne, the son of Erick Grimwade and Gwendolen Ada Carnegie...

 
Liberal Bendigo 1973 1967–1987
Kenneth Gross  Liberal Western  1970 1958–1976
Hon Rupert Hamer
Rupert Hamer
Sir Rupert James Hamer, AC, KCMG, ED , generally known until he was knighted in 1982 as Dick Hamer, Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 39th Premier of Victoria, serving from 1972 to 1981.-Early years:...

 
Liberal East Yarra 1970 1958–1971
Murray Hamilton  Liberal Higinbotham 1970 1967–1982
Arthur Hewson  Country Gippsland  1970 1964–1970
Vasey Houghton
Vasey Houghton
William Vasey Houghton MLC , better known as Vasey Houghton, was an Australian politician, grazier, and conservationist. He was one of the longest-serving members of the Victorian State Parliament, spending eighteen years as a Member of the Legislative Council, nine of them on the front bench...

 
Liberal Templestowe
Templestowe Province
Templestowe Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It existed as a two-member electorate from 1967 to 2006, with members serving alternating eight-year terms. It was traditionally held by the Liberal Party of Australia, but was held by the Australian Labor Party on two...

 
1973 1967–1985
Hon Alan Hunt
Alan Hunt (politician)
Alan John Hunt AM is an Australian politician, having been a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1961 until 1992....

 
Liberal South Eastern 1973 1961–1992
Alexander Knight
Alexander Knight
Alexander Rutherford Knight was born 24 January, 1899 in Dunedin and died 8 April, 1986 in Auckland. He was a New Zealand cricketer who played 51 first-class matches for the Otago Volts in the Plunket Shield.- External Links :* from Cricinfo....

 
Labor Melbourne West
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Melbourne West Province:...

 
1973 1963–1979
Stuart McDonald  Country Northern 1973 1967–1979
Hon Sir Ronald Mack Liberal Western 1973 1955–1968
Arthur Mansell  Country North Western 1973 1952–1973
Bob May
Bob May (politician)
Robert William "Bob" May was an Australian politician.Born in Yarram to grazier Robert May and Elizabeth Buist Wilson, May attended Macks Creek State School and Yarram High School before becoming a dairy farmer and grazier in Trenton Valley. On 21 April 1930 he married Helena Rossiter, with whom...

 
Country Gippsland 1973 1957–1973
Samuel Merrifield  Labor Doutta Galla
Doutta Galla Province
Doutta Galla Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Doutta Galla Province:...

 
1970 1958–1970
Clive Mitchell Country Western 1973 1968–1973
Graham Nicol  Liberal Monash
Monash Province
Monash Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council.-Members for Monash Province:-References:...

 
1970 1958–1976
Jack O'Connell  Labor Melbourne 1970 1958–1972
Ivan Swinburne  Country North Eastern 1970 1946–1976
Geoffrey Thom  Liberal South Western 1970 1958–1970
Hon Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG , Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 40th Premier of Victoria from June 1981 to April 1982...

Liberal Monash 1973 1955–1970
Archie Todd  Labor Melbourne West 1970 1958–1970
John Tripovich  Labor Doutta Galla 1973 1960–1976
John Walton  Labor Melbourne North 1970 1958–1982

On 12 February 1968, Ronald Mack, Liberal MLC for Western Province, died. Country candidate Clive Mitchell won the resulting by-election on 6 April 1968.
In September 1969, Sir Percy Byrnes, Country MLC for North Western, resigned. Country candidate Bernie Dunn won the resulting by-election on 15 November 1969.
In May 1970, Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Thompson
Lindsay Hamilton Simpson Thompson AO, CMG , Australian Liberal Party politician, was the 40th Premier of Victoria from June 1981 to April 1982...

 resigned to contest the seat of Malvern
Electoral district of Malvern
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 in the Legislative Assembly
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria in Australia. Together with the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house, it sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Melbourne.-History:...

. A by-election was held concurrently with the 1970 state election, which was won by Liberal candidate Charles Hider
Charles Hider
Charles Allen Moir Hider is a former Australian politician.Hider was born in Melbourne to John Jubilee Hider and Marjorie Louise Moir, and attended Ivanhoe Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, graduating with a Bachelor of Law. He became a solicitor in 1959...

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Sources

  • Re-member (a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria
    Parliament of Victoria
    The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of The Queen, represented by the Governor of Victoria; the Legislative Council ; and the Legislative Assembly...

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