Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1970–1973
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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 1970 and 1973. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1967 state election with terms expiring in 1973, while the other half were elected at the 1970 state election with terms expiring in 1976. A redistribution in 1965 had created the new provinces of 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...

 out of the former Southern Province; the full redistribution took effect 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
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  1976 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
Hon Sir 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  1976 1964–1976
Hon Vance Dickie  Liberal Ballarat 1973 1956–1978
Bernie Dunn  Country North Western  1976 1969–1988
Dolph Eddy
Dolph Eddy
Randolph John "Dolph" Eddy was an Australian politician.Born in Richmond to driver Randolph Edgar Eddy and Myrtle Truscott, he was educated at local state schools and Melbourne Technical College, becoming a cabinet maker and upholsterer. On 29 July 1941 he married Hazel May Morgan, with whom he...

 
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:...

 
1976 1970–1982
Doug Elliot  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...

 
Melbourne  1973 1960–1979
Hon 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 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...

 
1976 1958–1976
Stan Gleeson  Liberal South Western  1973 1965–1979
Jock Granter  Liberal Bendigo  1976 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  1976 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 1976 1958–1971
Vernon Hauser
Vernon Hauser
Vernon Thomas Hauser , Australian politician, was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Boronia Province from 1970–76 and for Nunawading Province from 1976-82 representing the [Liberal Party of Australia]...

 
Liberal Boronia 1976 1970–1982
Murray Hamilton  Liberal Higinbotham 1976 1967–1982
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...

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:...

 
1973 1970–1979
Hon 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 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
Glyn Jenkins  Liberal South Western 1976 1970–1982
Eric Kent
Eric Kent
Daniel Eric Kent is a former Australian politician.Kent was born at Areegra near Warracknabeal to D. Kent, a wheat and wool grower, and Sophie Elizabeth, née Menzel. He attended Areegra State School and farmed on the family property until 1949, after which he farmed at Yannathan, first dairy and...

 
Labor Gippsland  1976 1970–1976, 1979–1985
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
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
Clive Mitchell  Country Western 1973 1968–1973
Graham Nicol  Liberal Monash 1976 1958–1976
Jack O'Connell Labor Melbourne 1976 1958–1972
Haddon Storey Liberal East Yarra 1976 1971–1996
Ivan Swinburne  Country North Eastern 1976 1946–1976
Bon Thomas Labor Melbourne West 1976 1970–1982
Ivan Trayling Labor Melbourne 1976 1972–1982
John Tripovich  Labor Doutta Galla 1973 1960–1976
John Walton  Labor Melbourne North 1976 1958–1982
Roy Ward  Liberal South Eastern 1976 1970–1988
Bunna Walsh Labor Melbourne West 1976 1970

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...

 was elected at a by-election to fill the remaining three years of 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...

's term in Monash Province
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:...

, which was held on the same day as the 1970 elections.
Labor candidate Bunna Walsh, who won the Melbourne West Province
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:...

 seat at the 1970 election, was not admitted to the Council due to a conviction 20 years earlier for robbery with violence in the South Melbourne Children's Court. His election was then declared void in September 1970 by the Court of Disputed Returns, and Labor candidate Bon Thomas won the resulting by-election on 24 October 1970.
In March 1981, 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 MLC for East Yarra Province
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:...

, resigned to contest 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:...

 by-election in the seat of Kew
Electoral district of Kew
The Electoral district of Kew is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies a few kilometres east of Melbourne and is centred around the suburb of Kew and also contains parts of Balwyn and Canterbury....

. Liberal candidate Haddon Storey won the resulting by-election on 17 April 1971.
On 20 April 1972, Jack O'Connell, Labor MLC for Melbourne Province, died. Labor candidate Ivan Trayling was elected unopposed at the resulting by-election on 9 June 1972.

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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