Date of Birth: 27/03/1925
Place of Birth: Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
Date of Death: 23/03/2017
Place of Death: New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Member for Casino |
03 Mar 1962 |
22 Oct 1963 |
1 year 7 months 20 days |
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Member for Casino |
20 Feb 1959 |
05 Feb 1962 |
2 years 11 months 17 days |
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Member for Casino |
10 Feb 1956 |
16 Feb 1959 |
3 years 7 days |
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Member for Casino |
14 Feb 1953 |
06 Feb 1956 |
2 years 11 months 24 days |
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Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly |
14 Feb 1953 |
22 Oct 1963 |
10 years 8 months 9 days |
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Political Party Activity
Country Party. Secretary/treasurer of Richmond branch, vice chairman of Casino electorate council, central council 1950.
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Dairy farmer. Educated at Coraki Public School; in partnership with his father in a dairy, pig and grazing property, Bungawalbyn to 1953; runner up a Rural Bank's progressive farmer award 1947; member of Junior Farmers' Club 1934 - 1946, secretary of district council 1943 - 1953, state councillor 1945 - 1970, life member of Rural Youth Movement in 1966; secretary of Richmond River Flood Mitigation and Rural Development committee 1948 - 1953; committee member of North Coast National Agricultural and Industrial Society; director of Campbell Public Hospital., Coraki; member of State Council Agricultural Bureau 1945 - 1949; Australian delegate to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conference in London in 1965; Australian delegate to European Common Market countries in 1968.
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. Member of the House of Representatives for Cowper 1963 - 1984; and for Page 1984 - 1990.
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of Louis Harold Conrad, farmer and grazier, and Jean Strachan Robinson. Married Cynthia Strachan on 11 July 1961 and they had 1 son. Presbyterian.