The 2003 New South Wales state election was held on Saturday 22 March 2003. All seats in the Legislative Assembly and half the seats in the Legislative Council were up for election. The Labor Party led by Bob Carr won a third four-year term against the Liberal–National Coalition led by John Brogden.
Leslie Herbert Irwin,CBE was an Australian politician. Born in Newcastle,New South Wales,he was educated at state schools and underwent military service 1916–30. Upon the end of his service,he became a bank manager. In 1963,he was selected as the Liberal candidate for the seat of Mitchell in the Australian House of Representatives. He was the last person born in the nineteenth century,the last person born before Federation,and the last World War I veteran elected to the House. He held Mitchell until his defeat in 1972. Irwin died in 1985.
William Bowie Stewart Campbell Sawers was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Stirlingshire in Scotland,where he was educated,he migrated to Australia in 1865,becoming a grazier with large holdings. In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Bourke,holding the seat until 1886;later,in 1898,he was elected to the seat of Tamworth. In 1901 he resigned from the Legislative Assembly in order to contest the first federal election as the Protectionist candidate for New England;he won narrowly. He was defeated in 1903 by a Free Trade candidate. Sawers died in 1916.
Adam Alexander "Bill" Armstrong was an Australian politician. Born in Deniliquin,New South Wales,he was a grazier before serving in the military 1939–45. Subsequently,he became involved in local politics,serving on Conargo Shire Council. In 1965 he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in the by-election for the seat of Riverina that followed the resignation of Hugh Roberton;Armstrong was a member of the Country Party. He held the seat until 1969,when he was defeated by Labor's Al Grassby. Armstrong died in 1982.
John Simon Cockle was an Australian politician. Born in Harrington,Cumbria,England,he migrated as a child to Australia,where he attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School. He was secretary of the Australian Steamship Owners' Federation before serving in the military 1941–46 during World War II. He was an alderman on Sydney City Council from 1953 to 1956. In 1961,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for Warringah. He held the seat until his death from a heart attack on 3 August 1966. No by-election was held due to the upcoming federal election.
Archibald Ian Allan was an Australian politician. Born in Newcastle,New South Wales,he attended Sydney Grammar School before becoming an overseer at CSR. After serving in World War II from 1939 to 1946,he became an ABC announcer in Tamworth. In the by-election for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Gwydir that followed the death of Thomas Treloar in 1953,Allan was selected as the Country Party candidate and won. He held the seat until his resignation in 1969,after which he became Secretary-General of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Allan died in 2000.
Laurence John Failes was an Australian politician. Born in Coonabarabran,New South Wales,he attended state schools and then Hawkesbury Agricultural College before becoming a farmer at Bugaldie and then a businessman at Coonabarabran. He served in World War II 1942–45.
Ewen Daniel Mackinnon was an Australian politician. The son of state MLA Donald Mackinnon,he was born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School and then attended Oxford University. He returned to Australia as a grazier at Linton before becoming a company director and serving in the military 1938–43. In 1949,he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal for Wannon,but he was defeated in 1951. In 1953 he returned to the House as the member for Corangamite,having been elected in the by-election that followed the death of Allan McDonald. In 1966,Mackinnon retired from politics and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Raymond Harold Whittorn,CBE was an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1960 to 1974,representing the electorate of Balaclava.
Edmund Maxwell Cameron Fox,CBE was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Liberal Party and served in the House of Representatives from 1955 to 1974. He was the party's chief whip from 1969 to 1974.
Thomas Vernon Gilmore Sr. was an Australian politician.
Archibald Clifford Blacklow,was an Australian politician. Born in Bagdad,Tasmania,he was educated in Hobart at Hutchins School and then at the University of Sydney,serving part-time in the New South Wales Militia between 1899 and 1901,and then the Australian Rifles between 1909 and 1913. He became a pharmacist in Sydney before serving full-time in the military during the First World War between 1916 and 1919,serving in the 36th and then 35th Infantry Battalions,and rising to command the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion on the Western Front in the final year of the war. For his leadership of the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion,he was invested with the Distinguished Service Order. Between 1921 and 1924 he commanded the 34th Infantry Battalion.
Walter Leslie Duncan was an Australian politician. Born in Armidale,New South Wales,he was educated at state schools before becoming a clerk,and was President of the Labor Council of New South Wales in 1911. A member of the Labor Party,he joined the Nationalists in the wake of the 1916 split over conscription. Duncan enlisted in the military in 1917,leaving in 1919 to successfully contest the Senate for the Nationalists. A strong supporter of Billy Hughes,he was excluded from the party along with Hughes in 1929 and joined the Australian Party,before being reaccepted into the United Australia Party in 1931. He resigned from the Senate in 1931.
Thomas Christopher Arthur was an Australian politician. Born in Forbes,New South Wales,he received a primary education before becoming a miner and an official of the Miners' Federation. Later,he was an organiser with the Australian Workers' Union. In 1937,he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for New South Wales,forming one part of the "four A's" with Bill Ashley,Stan Amour and John Armstrong. He lost Labor endorsement for the 1943 election but contested the Senate as an independent,winning only 0.5% of the vote. He left politics to become a public servant,and died in 1953.
Albert David Reid,MC was an Australian politician. Born in Murrumburrah,New South Wales,he was educated at state schools before becoming a farmer and grazier at Crowther. He sat on Murrumburrah Shire Council before serving in the military in 1914. He was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry at Beersheeba in October 1917.
Patrick John Kennelly was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne,he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a clerk in the Australian Labor Party (ALP) office in Melbourne.
William George Thompson was an Irish-born Australian politician. He served as a Senator for Queensland from 1922 to 1932,representing the Nationalist Party and United Australia Party.
Edward Needham was an English-born Australian politician. Born in Lancashire,he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a coal miner and shipyard worker. He migrated to Australia in 1900,becoming a boilermaker in Fremantle,Western Australia. He was a union and Labor Party official.
Edward William Mattner,was an Australian politician and soldier who served as a Senator for South Australia from 1944 to 1946 and 1950 to 1968. He was President of the Senate from 1951 to 1953.
Douglas Clive Hannaford was an Australian politician. Born in Riverton,South Australia,a son of Walter Hannaford MLC,and one of many notable descendants of Susannah Hannaford,he was educated at Riverton and District High School with a final year at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide before returning to Riverton as a farmer. He served on District Council of Gilbert and was a co-ordinator of civil defence during World War II,having been rejected for military service due to poor health.
