Ernie Bond (politician)
Ernest Edward "Ernie" Bond (29 June 1897 – 25 July 1984) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Labor Party's Heywood branch from the age of seventeen, he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Glenelg in 1924; he transferred to Port Fairy and Glenelg in 1927. In 1932 he was expelled from the Labor Party over his support for the Premiers' Plan; he was re-elected as an independent and was readmitted to the Labor Party in 1937. He served until his retirement in 1943. Subsequently, he was a dairy farmer until 1964, when he retired to Portland. Bond died in Heywood in 1984.[1]
References
- ^ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Bond, Ernest Edward". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 4 January 2016.