Candidates of the 1969 Australian federal election

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1969 Australian federal election. The election was held on 25 October 1969.

Redistributions and seat changes

• Redistributions of electoral boundaries occurred in all states.
  • In New South Wales, six seats were abolished: the Labor-held seats of Dalley, East Sydney, Watson and West Sydney; the Liberal-held seat of Parkes; and the Country-held seat of Lawson. Five new seats were created: the notionally Labor seats of Chifley, Prospect and Sydney; and the notionally Liberal seats of Berowra and Cook. The Liberal-held seat of Hughes became notionally Labor.
    • The member for Hughes, Don Dobie (Liberal), contested Cook.
    • The member for Parkes, Tom Hughes (Liberal), contested Berowra.
    • The member for Watson, Jim Cope (Labor), contested Sydney.
  • In Victoria, the Labor-held seat of Darebin was renamed Scullin and the Liberal-held seat of Higinbotham was renamed Hotham. The Liberal-held seats of Fawkner and Isaacs and the Labor-held seats of (the pre-existing) Scullin and Yarra were abolished. A new, Liberal-held seat of Isaacs, unconnected to the previous one, was created. Four other new seats were also created: the Labor-held seats of Burke and Holt and the Liberal-held seats of Casey and Diamond Valley. The Liberal-held seat of Lalor and the Independent-held seat of Batman became notionally Labor, and the Labor-held seat of Melbourne Ports became notionally Liberal.
    • The member for Fawkner, Peter Howson (Liberal), contested Casey.
    • The member for Higinbotham, Don Chipp (Liberal), contested Hotham.
    • The member for Lalor, Mervyn Lee (Liberal), contested Bendigo.
    • The member for Yarra, Jim Cairns (Labor), contested Lalor.
  • In Queensland, the Labor-held seat of Brisbane became notionally Liberal, the Liberal-held seat of Herbert became notionally Labor, and the Labor-held seat of Wide Bay became notionally Country.
  • In Western Australia, the Labor-held seat of Stirling became notionally Liberal.
  • In South Australia, the notionally Liberal seat of Hawker was created.
  • There were minimal changes in Tasmania.

Retiring Members

Labor

• Joe Clark MP (Darling, NSW)
• Eric Costa MP (Banks, NSW)
• Frank Courtnay MP (Darebin, Vic)
• Dan Curtin MP (Kingsford-Smith, NSW)
• Len Devine MP (East Sydney, NSW)
• Jim Harrison MP (Blaxland, NSW)
• Dan Minogue MP (West Sydney, NSW)
• William O'Connor MP (Dalley, NSW)
• Ted Peters MP (Scullin, Vic)

Liberal

• Allen Fairhall MP (Paterson, NSW)
• Adrian Gibson MP (Denison, Tas)
• Sir William Haworth MP (Isaacs, Vic)

Country

• Laurie Failes MP (Lawson, NSW)

Independent

• Sam Benson MP (Batman, Vic)

House of Representatives

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Australian Capital Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	Australia candidate	Communist candidate
Australian Capital Territory	Labor	Jim Fraser	Robert Maher	Thomas McDermott	Don McHugh

New South Wales

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Australia candidate	Other candidates
Banks	Labor	Vince Martin	Herman Tibben (Lib)	Annette Andrew		Peter Allen (Ind) Reginald Jones (Ind) Kevin Watt (Ind)
Barton	Liberal	Len Reynolds	Bill Arthur (Lib)	Charles Chapman		Charles Bellchambers (Ind) Ray Emmerson (Ind) Alan Reed (Ind)
Bennelong	Liberal	Peter Evatt	Sir John Cramer (Lib)	Ronald Claridge	Kenneth Cook	Allan Horton (Ind)
Berowra	Liberal	George Williams	Tom Hughes (Lib)	Neil Mackerras	David Haig	Edith Parrish (Ind)
Blaxland	Labor	Paul Keating	John Ghent (Lib)	Joseph Conroy
Bradfield	Liberal	Keith Crook	Harry Turner (Lib)	Anthony Felton	Barbara Wilson	Betty Loneragan (Ind)
Calare	Country	Kerry Scott	John England (CP)	John Grant
Chifley	Labor	John Armitage	Milovan Kovjanic (Lib)	Stan Aster-Stater		Victor Corcoran (Ind)
Cook	Liberal	Cliff Mallam	Don Dobie (Lib)		Bernard Walrut	Robin Alleway (Ind)
Cowper	Country		Ian Robinson (CP)			Brian Richards (Ind) Neil Royal (Ind)
Cunningham	Labor	Rex Connor	John Poel (Lib)			Reg Wilding (CPA)
Darling	Labor	John FitzPatrick	Jack Bonney (Lib) Max Overton (CP)
Eden-Monaro	Liberal	Allan Fraser	Dugald Munro (Lib)	John Donohue	Patrick Starrs
Evans	Liberal	James Monaghan	Malcolm Mackay (Lib)	Kevin Davis	John Fisher	Hal Saunders (Ind)
Farrer	Liberal	Noel Murray	David Fairbairn (Lib)	James Keogh		John Ross (Ind)
Grayndler	Labor	Fred Daly	Jonathan Fowler (Lib)
Gwydir	Country	Roger Nott	Ralph Hunt (CP)		Brian Edwards	Halwyn Webster (Ind)
Hughes	Labor	Les Johnson	Carl Leddy (Lib)	William Goslett		Marjorie Williams (Ind)
Hume	Country	Frank Olley	Ian Pettitt (CP)	James Manwaring
Hunter	Labor	Bert James	Raymond Hughes (Lib)
Kingsford-Smith	Labor	Lionel Bowen	Barry Morrison (Lib)	Graham Bennett		Beverly Chong (PPA)
Lang	Labor	Frank Stewart	Stanley Duncan (Lib)	Dominique Droulers		Jack Mundey (CPA) Bert Tripet (Ind)
Lowe	Liberal	Peter Young	William McMahon (Lib)	Agnes Bannon		Patricia Bailey (Ind) Bernard MacMahon (Ind)
Lyne	Country	John Allan	Philip Lucock (CP)		Percival McPherson	Joe Cordner (Ind)
Macarthur	Liberal	Bob Whan	Jeff Bate (Lib)		Brian Wyer	Sidney Sheedy (PPA)
Mackellar	Liberal	William Bramwell	Bill Wentworth (Lib)	Thomas Colman
Macquarie	Labor	Tony Luchetti	John MacDonnell (Lib)	Leslie Clarke	Norman Lee
Mitchell	Liberal	Alfred Ashley-Brown	Les Irwin (Lib)	John Maguire	Gordon Waller	Harvey Clift (PPA)
New England	Country	Alan Kitson	Ian Sinclair (CP)
Newcastle	Labor	Charles Jones	Alfred Appleby (Lib)		Wlodzimierz Bohakto
North Sydney	Liberal	Mervyn Page	Bill Graham (Lib)	Reginald Lawson		Romualds Kemps (Ind)
Parramatta	Liberal	Barry Wilde	Nigel Bowen (Lib)	Hans Andreasson		John Keeffe (Ind) Leonard Kiernan (Ind)
Paterson	Liberal	Francis Murray	John Jobling (Lib) Frank O'Keefe* (CP)	Jack Collins	Ted Fletcher	Adrian Edwards (Ind)
Phillip	Liberal	Joe Riordan	William Aston (Lib)	Lyle Antcliff	Jack Gray	Totti Cohen (Ind) Alex MacDonald (Ind) Ronald Rigby (Ind) William Whitby (PPA) Ken Yeomans (Ind)
Prospect	Labor	Dick Klugman	Stanislaus Kelly (Lib)	John Ferguson
Reid	Labor	Tom Uren	Stanley Hedges (Lib)	Mick Carroll		Norman Hurst (Ind)
Richmond	Country	Joseph Gilmore	Doug Anthony (CP)
Riverina	Country	Al Grassby	Bill Armstrong (CP)	Patrick Barry
Robertson	Liberal	Barry Cohen	William Bridges-Maxwell (Lib)			Wallace Cook (Ind) Albert Date (Ind)
St George	Liberal	Bill Morrison	Len Bosman (Lib)	Henry Bader	Christopher Owens	Archibald Lawless (Ind) Emanuel Said (Ind)
Shortland	Labor	Charles Griffiths	Paul Clarkson (Lib)	Robert Burke	Charles Hockings	Geoff Curthoys (CPA)
Sydney	Labor	Jim Cope	Graham Robertson (Lib)	Norma Boyle		Ian Channell (Ind) Donald Lewis (PPA) Nick Origlass (Ind) Shane Watson (Ind)
Warringah	Liberal	Thomas Reynolds	Michael MacKellar (Lib)	Peter Keogh		Eric Riches (Ind) Edward St John (Ind) Albert Thompson (PPA)
Wentworth	Liberal	Frederick Cross	Les Bury (Lib)	Doris Brown		Geoff Mullen (Ind) Neville Yeomans (PPA)
Werriwa	Labor	Gough Whitlam	Christopher May (Lib)	William Arundel		Fay McCallum (Ind) William Sadler (Ind) Don Syme (CPA)

Northern Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Country candidate	Independent candidate
Northern Territory	Country	Ted Robertson	Sam Calder	Harold Brennan Alan Gray

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
Bowman	Liberal	Len Keogh	Wylie Gibbs (Lib)	Noel Tennison	Harold Asmith (Ind)
Brisbane	Liberal	Manfred Cross	Greg O'Dwyer (Lib)	Roger Judge
Capricornia	Labor	Doug Everingham	Brian Palmer (Lib)	Alfred Rose
Darling Downs	Liberal	Eugene Salas	Reginald Swartz (Lib)	Francis Mullins
Dawson	Labor	Rex Patterson	John Hinz (CP)	Bernard Lewis
Fisher	Country	Ian Budge	Charles Adermann (CP)	Robert Barron
Griffith	Liberal	Barry Gorman	Don Cameron (Lib)	Cecil Birchley	Trevor Sturling (Ind)
Herbert	Labor	Ted Harding	Robert Bonnett (Lib)	Kiernan Dorney
Kennedy	Country	Gerry Jones	Bob Katter (CP)	Brian Hurney
Leichhardt	Labor	Bill Fulton	David Young (CP)	Thomas White
Lilley	Liberal	Frank Doyle	Kevin Cairns (Lib)	Andrew Aitken
McPherson	Country	Wayne Randall	Charles Barnes (CP)	Thomas McKenzie
Maranoa	Country	Edward Bertolotti	James Corbett (CP)	John Davis
Moreton	Liberal	George Harvey	James Killen (Lib)	Clarrissa Weedon	Kitchener Farrell (Ind)
Oxley	Labor	Bill Hayden	Cyril Morgan (Lib)	Gavan Duffy
Petrie	Liberal	Kenneth Turbet	Alan Hulme (Lib)	Robert Macklin	Sydney Appleby (AP)
Ryan	Liberal	John Conn	Nigel Drury (Lib)	Brian O'Brien
Wide Bay	Labor	Brendan Hansen	Paul Neville (CP)	Laurence Kehoe

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Australia candidate	Other candidates
Adelaide	Liberal	Chris Hurford	Andrew Jones	George Basisovs	Anne McMenamin	Anatolij Onishko (Ind)
Angas	Liberal	Harold McLaren	Geoffrey Giles	Terence Critchley
Barker	Liberal	John Cornwall	Jim Forbes
Bonython	Labor	Martin Nicholls	Rudolph Masopust	Peter Meredith		Frank Lawrence (SCP)
Boothby	Liberal	Chris Sumner	John McLeay	Ted Farrell	Frederick Thompson	Valerie Lillington (Ind)
Grey	Liberal	Laurie Wallis	Don Jessop	Douglas Barnes	Thomas Manthorpe
Hawker	Liberal	Ralph Jacobi	Alan Hickinbotham	Kathleen Anderson	Malcolm Hawkins
Hindmarsh	Labor	Clyde Cameron	Michael Cusack	Helena Hubert		Steven Gazecimeon (Ind)
Kingston	Liberal	Richard Gun	Kay Brownbill	Betty Bishop
Port Adelaide	Labor	Fred Birrell	Reginald Appelkamp			Denis McEvoy (SCP) Jim Moss (CPA)
Sturt	Liberal	Norm Foster	Ian Wilson	Paul Hubert
Wakefield	Liberal	Brian Chatterton	Bert Kelly	John McMahon

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
Bass	Labor	Lance Barnard	Neil Pitt	Peter Ferrall	Geoffrey Batten (Ind) John Kent (AP)
Braddon	Labor	Ron Davies	Peter Rothwell	Dudley McNamara
Denison	Liberal	Alasdair McBurnie	Robert Solomon	Michael Delaney	Bill Mollison (Ind) Michael Townley (Ind)
Franklin	Liberal	Ray Sherry	Thomas Pearsall	Richard Delany	Kenneth Newcombe (Ind)
Wilmot	Labor	Gil Duthie	Donald Paterson	Darryl Sulzberger

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
Balaclava	Liberal	Irene Dunsmuir	Ray Whittorn (Lib)	Ralph James	Steven Soos (AP)
Ballaarat	Liberal	David Pollock	Dudley Erwin (Lib)	Bob Joshua	Graeme Bond (Ind) Hendrik Prins (Ind) David Swinnerton (Ind)
Batman	Labor	Horrie Garrick	Peter McGrath (Lib)	Henry Darroch	Ronald Hayles (Ind)
Bendigo	Labor	David Kennedy	Mervyn Lee (Lib)	Paul Brennan
Bruce	Liberal	Leon Phillips	Billy Snedden (Lib)	William Hoyne	Douglas McKay (AP) Les Smith (CPA) Herbert Wessley (Ind)
Burke	Labor	Keith Johnson	John Williams (Lib)	Terence Scully	Kathleen Laherty (Ind) Richard Smith (AP)
Casey	Liberal	Duncan Waterson	Peter Howson (Lib)	Kevin Adamson	Joe Schillani (Ind) Leonard Weber (AP)
Chisholm	Liberal	Anthony Dwyer	Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes (Lib)	John Rogers	Andrew Morrow (AP)
Corangamite	Liberal	Neil Moorfoot	Tony Street (Lib)	Francis O'Brien
Corio	Labor	Gordon Scholes	Charles Malpas (Lib)	John Timberlake	Elsie Brushfield (Ind) Stuart Harris (Ind)
Deakin	Liberal	Bernard Mildner	Alan Jarman (Lib)	Maurice Weston	Ray Nilsen (Ind)
Diamond Valley	Liberal	David McKenzie	Neil Brown (Lib)	Leo Morison	John Hill (AP)
Flinders	Liberal	Fay Nottage	Phillip Lynch (Lib)	Josephus Gobel	Monty Hollow (Ind)
Gellibrand	Labor	Hector McIvor	Ian Crouch (Lib)	Robin Thomas
Gippsland	Country	John Wolfe	Peter Nixon (CP)	John Hansen
Henty	Liberal	Robert Ray	Max Fox (Lib)	John Launder	Herman Crowther (Ind)
Higgins	Liberal	Wilhelm Kapphan	John Gorton (Lib)	Peter Grant	Walter Pickering (AP) Morris Revelman (Ind)
Holt	Liberal	William Wilkinson	Len Reid (Lib)	Henri de Sachau
Hotham	Liberal	Kevin Vaughan	Don Chipp (Lib)	Ian Radnell	Kenneth Nolan (AP)
Indi	Country	Robert Cross	Roy Harle (Lib) Mac Holten * (CP)	Christopher Cody
Isaacs	Liberal	Alan Roberts	David Hamer (Lib)	Frederick Skinner	Liane Wessley (Ind)
Kooyong	Liberal	Richard Dunstan	Andrew Peacock (Lib)	Francis Duffy
La Trobe	Liberal	Pauline McCarthy	John Jess (Lib)	Peter Tunstall	Brenda Elliott (AP)
Lalor	Labor	Jim Cairns	Vaclav Ubl (Lib)	John Bacon	Tom Gilhooley (Ind)
Mallee	Country	Ronald Davies	James McFarlane (Lib) Winton Turnbull * (CP)	Peter Lawrence
Maribyrnong	Liberal	Moss Cass	Philip Stokes (Lib)	Jim Marmion	Lance Hutchinson (Ind) Daphne Thorne (Ind)
McMillan	Liberal	Frank Mountford	Alex Buchanan * (Lib) John Dwyer (CP)	Les Hilton
Melbourne	Labor	Arthur Calwell	Peter Block (Lib)	John Ryan	Murray Thompson (Ind)
Melbourne Ports	Liberal	Frank Crean	Kevin Randall (Lib)	Eustace Tracey	George Gabriel (Ind) Stephen Graves (Ind) Reg Macey (Ind)
Murray	Country	Neil Frankland	John McEwen (CP)	Brian Lacey	Bill Hunter (Ind)
Scullin	Labor	Harry Jenkins	James Spicer (Lib)	Tom Andrews	Brendon Connor (Ind)
Wannon	Liberal	Kenneth Ginifer	Malcolm Fraser (Lib)	Maurice Purcell
Wills	Labor	Gordon Bryant	Peter Frankel (Lib)	John Flint	John Bennett (Ind) Milan Breier (Ind) Geraldine Phelan (Ind)
Wimmera	Country	Brian Brooke	Miles Bourke (Lib) Robert King * (CP)	Brian Cronin

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Other candidates
Canning	Country	Allan Scott	John Hallett * (CP) Harry Pennington (Lib)	Maurice Bailey
Curtin	Liberal	John Williamson	Victor Garland (Lib)	Francis Dwyer	Len McEntee (AP) Robert Scoggins (Ind)
Forrest	Liberal	Frank Kirwan	Gordon Freeth (Lib)	Henry Sullivan	Anthony Montgomery (AP)
Fremantle	Labor	Kim Beazley	Robert French (Lib)	Frank Pownall
Kalgoorlie	Labor	Fred Collard	Jim Samson (Lib)	Geoffrey Sands
Moore	Country	Peter Walsh	Don Maisey * (CP) Ian Thompson (Lib)	John Deane
Perth	Liberal	Joe Berinson	Fred Chaney (Lib)	John Martyr	Patricia Giles (Ind)
Stirling	Liberal	Harry Webb	Ian Viner (Lib)	Brian Peachey	Allan Cooke (AP)
Swan	Liberal	Adrian Bennett	Richard Cleaver (Lib)	Alan Crofts	Arthur Williams (AP)

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

South Australia

A special election was held in South Australia to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Liberal Senator Keith Laught. Martin Cameron, also of the Liberal Party, had been appointed to this vacancy in the interim.

Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Australia candidate	Other candidates
Don Cameron*	Martin Cameron	Mark Posa	Norman Munn	William Henry (SCP) Steven Gazecimeon (Ind)

Victoria

A special election was held in Victoria to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Liberal Senator John Gorton. Ivor Greenwood, also of the Liberal Party, had been appointed to this vacancy in the interim.

Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	DLP candidate	Australia candidate	Independent candidates
Bill Brown	Ivor Greenwood *	Frank Dowling	Adrian van Riel	Ray Evans John Murray Edwin Ryan

Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested special Senate elections in Victoria and South Australia.

Party	NSW	Vic		Qld	WA	SA		Tas	ACT	NT	Total
	HR	HR	S	HR	HR	HR	S	HR	HR	HR	HR	S
Australian Labor Party	44	34	*	18	9	12	*	5	1	1	124	2
Liberal Party of Australia	37	32	*	11	9	12	*	5	1		107	2
Australian Country Party	10	6		7	2					1	26
Democratic Labor Party	32	34	*	18	9	10	*	5			108	2
Australia Party	16	9	*	1	4	4	*	1	1		36	2
Communist Party of Australia	4	1				1			1		7
Social Credit Party						2	*				2	1
Independent and other	49	26		3	2	3		4		2	89

See also

• 1969 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1966–1969
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1969–1972
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1969
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1969