Ken Vowles

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Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
Ken Vowles
Member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
for Johnston
In office
25 August 2012 31 January 2020
YearsTermElectoral divisionParty
2012 2016 12th Johnston Labor
2016 2020 13th Johnston Labor

Born in Darwin, Vowles attended the Australian Cricket Academy on a scholarship from 1989 to 1990, during which time he toured internationally with the Australian Under-19 team. [1] As an Under-19 player, Vowles held the record for the fastest century scored at the Melbourne Cricket Ground until the record was broken by Viv Richards. [2]

In 2008, Vowles contested the seat of Blain as a Labor Party candidate at that year's Territory general election, although he was defeated by Terry Mills, the future Chief Minister. He nominated to contest the seat of Johnston in the 2012 election, although a controversy emerged when the Labor Party threatened the Northern Territory News with legal action to prevent the newspaper from publishing a story about Vowles' spent assault conviction from a fight in 1992 (Labor leader Paul Henderson had previously been critical of another candidate for not disclosing a manslaughter conviction). [3]

Vowles was elected as member for Johnston, although the Henderson government was defeated by the Country Liberal Party. [4] After two years as a minister, Vowles was sacked and excluded from the Labor caucus, along with two backbench colleagues who held similar views about the Territory’s budget deficit, on 21 December 2018. [5] On 28 November 2019, he announced that he would resign from parliament with effect from 31 January 2020. [6]

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References

  1. Ken Vowles (Australia), Cricinfo.
  2. Territory cricket identity Ken Vowles drops into The Guestroom, The Guestroom (105.7 ABC Darwin), 16 December 2011.
  3. Arnost, Melanie: Labor candidate's assault conviction causes stir, ABC News, 14 August 2012.
  4. Results: NT General Election Archived 30 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine , Northern Territory Electoral Commission, 25 August 2012.
  5. "Ken Vowles, Jeff Collins and Scott McConnell dumped from NT Government's Labor Caucus". ABC News. 21 December 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  6. "Ken Vowles has quit politics on the last day of parliamentary sittings for 2019". ABC News. 28 November 2019. Retrieved 28 November 2019.
Northern Territory Legislative Assembly
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2012–2020
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