Edward Oldfield
Edward Oldfield | |
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Constituency | Maylands, Mount Lawley |
Personal details | |
Born | 23 August 1920 Labor |
Spouse | Margaret Smith |
Profession | Commercial traveller |
Edward Peate Oldfield (23 August 1920 – 2 December 1990) was an Australian politician, and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1951 until 1965 representing the seats of Maylands and Mount Lawley at different times.
Biography
Oldfield was born in
After his war service, he worked as a commercial traveller with Wigmores. In April 1949, he was elected to the
Due to a boundary redistribution at the 1956 election, Maylands had become a safe seat for the Labor Party, so Oldfield instead ran for the neighbouring seat of Mount Lawley. However, former Liberal minister Arthur Abbott was the Liberal Party's official candidate, and in a two-horse race, Oldfield won with 67.8% of the votes. He was subsequently refused admission to the Parliamentary Party, a move which was not uncontroversial as it was seen as rejecting "unendorsed candidates who had clearly won the confidence of electors".[1] He sat in Parliament as an "Independent Liberal", and was appointed by the Labor government to a Select Committee inquiring into welfare conditions in the Laverton-Warburton Range area.
At the
He continued to serve as a Labor member of parliament until 1965, when he was narrowly defeated by the Liberals' Robert Marshall. He pursued other forms of employment, including self-employment and investing in various companies. He served as a councillor in the WA Industrial Institute and the Council for the Blind, and was president of the Maylands RSL.[2]
He died at home in Noranda, a north-eastern Perth suburb, and was cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery.
His nephew is David Oldfield, the co-founder of Pauline Hanson's One Nation and Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1999 to 2007.[3]
References
- ^ Australian Journal of Politics and History, Volume 2, No. 1, 1956, p.118
- ISBN 0731697839.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 4 March 2017.
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