Casino is a town in the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales,Australia,with a population of 12,298 people at the 2021 census. It lies on the banks of the Richmond River and is situated at the junction of the Bruxner Highway and the Summerland Way.
Janelle Anne Saffin is an Australian Labor Party politician. She has been the Member for Lismore in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since 23 March 2019. She was the Member for Page in the Australian House of Representatives from 2007 to 2013,and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1995 to 2003.
The Division of Page is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.
George Richard Torbay is a former Australian politician who was an independent member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Northern Tablelands from 1999 to 2013. Torbay was the 30th Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,serving from 2007 until 2011,and was the first independent member to be Speaker of the House since 1913. Prior to his election to state parliament,he served as Mayor of Armidale City Council from 1995 to 1998.
Clarence is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Lismore is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Janelle Saffin of the Labor Party.
John Marsden Mason is a former Australian politician,a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 16 years.
Rous was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales,created in the 1904 re-distribution of electorates following the 1903 New South Wales referendum,which required the number of members of the Legislative Assembly to be reduced from 125 to 90. It consisted of parts of Lismore and The Tweed. It was named after Rous County,between the Tweed and Richmond Rivers and Henry John Rous,who explored the rivers. In 1913,it was replaced by Byron.
The Murwillumbah railway line is a mostly disused railway line in far north-eastern Northern Rivers New South Wales,Australia. The line ran from Casino to Lismore,Byron Bay,Mullumbimby and Murwillumbah,opening in 1894. It is one of only two branches off the North Coast line,. Train services to the region ceased in May 2004. The line from Casino to Bentley and Murwillumbah to Crabbes Creek was formally closed on 23 September 2020 to facilitate the construction of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail.
A political family of Australia is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics,particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage;often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
John Thomson was an Australian politician. He was a Progressive Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1904,representing the Manning electorate. He was then a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1906 to 1919,representing Cowper for the Protectionist Party and its successors the Commonwealth Liberal Party and Nationalist Party.
Richard Hargrave Colless is an Australian politician. Colless was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2000 to 2019,representing the National Party.
Donald Thomas Harwin is an Australian politician. He was the New South Wales Special Minister of State and the Minister for the Public Service and Employee Relations,Aboriginal Affairs,and the Arts in the second Berejiklian ministry since April 2019;and the Vice-President of the Executive Council,and the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council since January 2017 in the Berejiklian government. He briefly resigned from his roles with effect from 15 April 2020,however was reinstated on 3 July 2020.
Douglas Frederick Moppett was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party,later National Party,member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1991 up until 2002. He died from liver cancer a week after his announced his retirement from Parliament.
Philip Henry (Pat) Morton was an Australian businessman and politician. Born in Lismore in Northern New South Wales to a prominent political family and educated at Lismore High School,Morton left school at fourteen to be employed in a legal firm,before branching out into various businesses. Moving to Sydney,Morton first entered politics in 1944 as an Alderman on Mosman Municipal Council,rising to be Mayor in 1946. Morton then entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on 3 May 1947,representing the Electoral district of Mosman for the Liberal Party.
Richmond William Manyweathers OBE was an Australian politician. He was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly,representing the electorate of Casino from 1964 to 1968. He subsequently transferred to the New South Wales Legislative Council,where he served from 1968 to 1978.
Mark Joseph Coure is an Australian politician. He is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Oatley for the Liberal Party since 2011 and served in the second Perrottet ministry.
Jamie Thomas Parker is an Australian politician who was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Balmain for the Greens from 2011 until his retirement in 2023. Parker was the first Green to represent his party in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Lismore,an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales,has had three incarnations,the first from 1894 to 1904,the second from 1913 to 1920 and the third from 1927 until the present.
Rous,an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1904 and abolished in 1913.
