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The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs.
The Parliament of Tasmania is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Tasmania. It follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system and consists of the Governor of Tasmania, the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and Tasmanian Legislative Council. Since 1841, both Houses have met in Parliament House, Hobart. The Parliament of Tasmania first met in 1856.
Norma Mary Jamieson is an Australian politician. She was an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electoral division of Mersey from 2003 until 2009. She worked as a nurse. Norma Jamieson is a widow with two children. Her interests include: bushwalking, gardening, farming, tree farming, light aircraft flying, sports and travel. In recent bills she voted against the state government's same sex relationships bill, but in favour of the sex industry regulation bill. She has been dubbed a 'traditional conservative'.
The electoral division of Mersey is one of the fifteen constituencies in the Tasmanian Legislative Council. The division covers an area of 732 km².
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Hubert Allan Nichols was an Australian politician. He was born at Macquarie Plains, Tasmania. In 1902 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for Mersey, leading the Opposition group in the Council from May 1906 to January 1909. In 1924 he was defeated, but he was elected to Meander in 1926, serving until 1935. Nichols died in 1940 in Ulverstone.
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Steven Leigh Martin is an Australian politician who was a Senator for Tasmania from February 2018 to June 2019, when he lost his seat at the 2019 federal election. Martin was declared elected to the Senate on a recount when Jacqui Lambie was caught up in the parliamentary eligibility crisis. He took his seat as an independent, before joining the National Party in May 2018 as its first Tasmanian member since the 1920s. He was previously the mayor of the City of Devonport from 2011 to 2018.
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- ↑ Tasmanian Parliament (2005). "Geoffrey Bruce Squibb". The Parliament of Tasmania from 1856. Retrieved 11 April 2010.Cite has empty unknown parameter:
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| Preceded by Harry Braid | Member for Mersey 1990–2003 | Succeeded by Norma Jamieson |
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