Liddy Clark

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Liddy Clark
Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Policy
In office
12 February 2004 –3 March 2005

Elizabeth Anne Clark (born 6 November 1953), is an Australian former politician with the Labor Party in the Queensland Legislature who held the seat for Clayfield and also an actress of television and film, director, producer and presenter, credited as Liddy Clark and Liddy Clarke. [1]

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Acting career

Clark has various film and television credits to her name. She is possibly best known however, for her two small screen roles in the cult series Prisoner . She played child killer Bella Albrecht for two episodes in 1979 and Sharon Smart, the victim of a crooked religious cult, for six episodes in 1983.

In 1988, Clark played the role of battered wife Kerry Barlow in Home and Away . She was a regular cast member in the series Fire and has made guest appearances in Cop Shop , Matlock Police , The Sullivans , Kingswood Country , A Country Practice and Echo Point . She also featured in the Prisoner re-imagining series Wentworth .

She was a presenter on the long-running children's program Play School .

Clark's film credits include Mad Dog Morgan , Blue Fin , The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , Touch and Go , Kitty and the Bagman and Annie's Coming Out .

Political career

In the 1998 Queensland state election, she challenged Liberal minister Santo Santoro in the normally safe Liberal seat of Clayfield. While Santoro defeated her on the first count, Clark picked up a seven percent two-party swing to make the seat marginal.

In 2001 she challenged Santoro again, and this time won. [2] Even allowing for the massive Labor wave that swept through the state in that election, Clark's election was considered a shock result. She was reelected in 2004.

She was briefly Minister for Indigenous Affairs in the government of Peter Beattie. She was involved in the so-called "Winegate" affair. A bottle of wine was taken aboard a government jet travelling to a "dry" indigenous community in North Queensland. Two of Clark's staff were moved from their jobs over the affair, and after an independent inquiry Clark was cleared of any wrongdoing. [3] [4] [5]

She lost the seat, the most marginal in Queensland, at the 2006 Election.

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleType
1975 Sidecar Racers CashierFeature film
1976 Caddie ReceptionistFeature film
Mad Dog Morgan AliceFeature film
1977The Importance of Keeping Perfectly StillFilm short
Blue Fire Lady Betty (as Liddy Clarke)Feature film
1978 Blue Fin Ruth PascoeFeature film
The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith KateFeature film
1980 Touch and Go HelenFeature film
1982CargoFilm short
Kitty and the Bagman Kitty O'RourkeFeature film
1983On GuardAmeliaFilm short
1984 Annie's Coming Out Sally ClementsFeature film
1986Push StartFilm short
1989To Forget GhostsFilm short
1993 The Nostradamus Kid 'General Booth Enters Heaven' Strolling PlayerFeature film
1998WasteFeature film
2003About FaceFilm short

Television

YearTitleRoleType
1974 Matlock Police PattiTV series, 1 episode
1977 Bluey Esme FulcherTV series, 1 episode
The Sullivans MargeTV series, 4 episodes
1978–1981 Cop Shop Joanne McPherson / Karen Ashby / Kathy Simpson / Sandra MazzorinoTV series, 6 episodes
1979 Ride On Stranger ShannonTV miniseries, 4 episodes
1979–1980 Don't Ask Us Various charactersTV series
1981A Sporting ChanceJo TravinskaTV series, 10 episodes
Holiday Island MeredithTV series, 1 episode
1982; 1992 A Country Practice Louisa Kennedy / Faith FinlayTV series, 5 episodes
1982Living TogetherTV pilot
JonahPinkeyTV miniseries, 4 episodes
1982–1984 Play School PresenterTV series, 5 episodes
1982 Watch This Space HerselfTV series
1981; 1983 Prisoner Bella Ulbricht / Sharon SmartTV series, 8 episodes
1980; 1984 Kingswood Country Jennifer / VickiTV series, 2 episodes
1986 The Challenge TV miniseries, 3 episodes
1987 Coda Sally ReidTV movie
1988 Home and Away Kerry BarlowTV series, 10 episodes
Swap Shop DotTV series
Barlow and Chambers: A Long Way From Home (aka Dadah Is Death)Gilda RickmanTV miniseries, 2 episodes
1988; 1989 Rafferty's Rules Faye IrwinTV series, 3 episodes
1989 Grim Pickings Verity ‘Birdie’ Birdwood TV miniseries, 2 episodes
Living With The Law TV series
1990 The Flying Doctors CarolTV series, 1 episode
1991 G.P. TV series, 1 episode
1995 Echo Point Iris DelaneyTV series, 11 episodes
1995–1996 Fire Jean DiamondTV series, 17 episodes
2012 Tangle Dr. TaylorTV series, 1 episode
2015 Wentworth Hazel FullagerTV series, 1 episode

Stage

As actor

YearTitleRoleType
1974Doctor in the HouseMiss Winslow 'Riggie', a nurse Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Warner Theatre, Adelaide, Newcastle Civic Theatre with AETT & Crawford Theatre Productions
1976The Foursome VCA, Melbourne with MTC
1976 City Sugar Nicola Davies St Martins Theatre, Melbourne with MTC
1977No WorriesWendy La Mama, Melbourne
1977Ravages: Dropping InJean La Mama, Melbourne
1977Obsessive Behaviour in Small SpacesSpider Prentiss UNSW Old Tote Parade Theatre, Sydney
1978Makassar ReefCamilla Ostrov Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC
1978FreaksPetunia Playbox Theatre, Melbourne with Hoopla Theatre Foundation
1980Ticka-Tocka-LingaVictorian regional tour with Victoria State Opera
1980 Big River Monica HindmarshArts Theatre, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne with MTC
1983 On Our Selection Lily White Melbourne Athenaeum with MTC
1984 Don's Party North Qld regional tour with New Moon Theatre Company
1984 Beach Blanket Tempest KellyNorth Qld & NT regional tour, Playhouse, Adelaide, Canberra Theatre, University of Sydney with New Moon Theatre Company
1985–1986 Sons of Cain Crystal Playhouse, Melbourne, Theatre Royal Sydney, Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane, Wyndham's Theatre, London with MTC
1987 Educating Rita RitaPlayhouse, Newcastle with Hunter Valley Theatre Company
1987 Away Townsville Civic Hall with New Moon Theatre Company
1989Nice GirlsPrue Anthill Theatre, Melbourne, Monash University with Playbox Theatre Company
1989 The Man From Mukinupin Suncorp Theatre, Brisbane with QTC
1990After DinnerNew England Theatre Company, Armidale
1990 Beach Blanket Tempest Q Theatre, Penrith
1993 Summer of the Aliens Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane with Metaluna Theatre Company & QPAC
1993 Canaries Sometimes Sing Marian Street Theatre, Sydney
1994 A Bedfull of Foreigners Newcastle Civic Theatre, Canberra Theatre with Les Currie Productions
Chapter Two MTC
Benefactors MTC

As director

YearTitleRoleType
1992Robin Hood and the Cheryl of NottinghamDirectorTilbury Hotel, Sydney

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References

  1. 1 2 "Clark, Elizabeth Anne (Liddy)". Former Members. Queensland Parliament. Archived from the original on 6 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. ↑ "2006 Queensland Election. Clayfield Electorate Profile". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 7 September 2006. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  3. ↑ Landers, Kim (12 March 2004). "Winegate". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 14 January 2010. Retrieved 2 January 2010.
  4. ↑ Townsend, Ian (8 March 2004). "Bottle of wine causing headaches for Qld Govt". The World Today. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  5. ↑ McKechnie, Kirrin (4 March 2005). "Circuit Breaker". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  6. ↑ "Liddy Clark". AusStage.
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