Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1978 to 1981 held office following the 1978 referendum which reduced the number of members from 60 to 43, provided for the direct election of members of the Legislative Council and that members would serve for 3 terms of the Legislative Assembly. Only 15 of the 43 members had been elected at the 1978 Legislative Council election. [1] [2] Under the transitional arrangements, 28 members had been indirectly elected by joint sittings of the New South Wales Parliament, with 14 of those members to retire at the next general election, held in 1981, and the remaining 14 members would retire at the following general election, held in 1984. [3]
The President was Johno Johnson. [4]
Name | Party | End term | Years in office | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kath Anderson | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1981 | |
Peter Baldwin | Labor | 1984 | 1976β1982 | |
Roger de Bryon-Faes | Liberal | 1981 | 1961β1981 | |
Don Burton | Labor | 1984 | 1976β1984 | |
Frank Calabro | Liberal | 1987 | 1970β1988 | |
Virginia Chadwick | Liberal | 1987 | 1978β1999 | |
Leo Connellan | National Country | 1981 | 1969β1970, 1970β1981 | |
Fergus Darling | Liberal | 1984 | 1976β1981 | |
Jack Doohan] [a] | National Country | 1981 | 1978β1991 | |
John Ducker [b] | Labor | 1984 | 1972β1979 | |
Fred Duncan | Liberal | 1984 | 1972β1984 | |
Ron Dyer [b] | Labor | 1984 | 1979β2003 | |
Marie Fisher | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1988 | |
Derek Freeman | Liberal | 1981 | 1973β1981, 1981β1984 | |
Barney French | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1991 | |
Deirdre Grusovin | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1990 | |
Jack Hallam | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1991 | |
Clive Healey | Labor | 1987 | 1970β1988 | |
John Holt | Liberal | 1984 | 1972β1984 | |
Dorothy Isaksen | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1988, 1990β1999 | |
Johno Johnson | Labor | 1984 | 1976β2001 | |
Jim Kaldis | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1999 | |
Bill Kennedy | National Country | 1984 | 1971β1984 | |
Norm King | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1988 | |
Delcia Kite | Labor | 1984 | 1976β1995 | |
Paul Landa | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1984 | |
Lloyd Lange | Liberal | 1987 | 1974β1986 | |
Vi Lloyd | Liberal | 1981 | 1973β1981 | |
Toby MacDiarmid | National Country | 1987 | 1973β1988 | |
Peter McMahon | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1981 | |
Herb McPherson | Labor | 1981 | 1964β1981 | |
Robert Melville | Labor | 1981 | 1973β1981 | |
John Morris | Labor | 1984 | 1976β1984 | |
Nathanael Orr | Liberal | 1984 | 1976β1984 | |
Peter Philips | Liberal | 1987 | 1976β1988 | |
Ted Pickering | Liberal | 1981 | 1976β1988 | |
Bob Rowland Smith | National Country | 1987 | 1974β1999 | |
Bill Sandwith | Liberal | 1984 | 1976β1984 | |
Adrian Solomons | National Country | 1984 | 1969β1991 | |
Joe Thompson | Labor | 1987 | 1974β1988 | |
Roy Turner | Labor | 1984 | 1976β1984 | |
Barrie Unsworth | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1986 | |
Peter Watkins | Labor | 1987 | 1978β1987 | |
Max Willis | Liberal | 1981 | 1970β1999 |