Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly is the presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. The presiding officer of the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Council, is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council.
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Style | The Honourable |
Appointer | Elected by the Victorian Legislative Assembly |
Inaugural holder | Sir Francis Murphy |
Formation | 21 November 1856 |
Deputy | Maree Edwards |
Website | www |
A Speaker is elected at the beginning of each new parliamentary term by the Legislative Assembly from one of its members. The Assembly may re-elect an incumbent Speaker by passing a motion; otherwise, a secret ballot is held. The House can dismiss the Speaker by a majority vote, and the Speaker can resign.
In practice, the Speaker is usually a member of the governing party or parties, who have the majority in the House, and continues to be a member of his or her political party, but it is left to their individual discretion as to whether or not they attend party meetings. The Speaker also continues to carry out his or her ordinary electorate duties as a member of Parliament and must take part in an election campaign to be re-elected as a member of Parliament.[1]
A Deputy Speaker, also elected by the Assembly, supports and assists the Speaker in the execution of his or her duties, and acts Speaker in their absence or during a vacancy in the position.
Speakers of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Name | Party | Term start | Term end | |
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Sir Francis Murphy | none | 21 November 1856 | 24 January 1871 | |
Sir Charles MacMahon | none | 25 April 1871 | April 1877 | |
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy | none | 22 May 1877 | 9 February 1880 | |
Sir Charles MacMahon | none | 11 May 1880 | 29 June 1880 | |
Peter Lalor | none | 22 July 1880 | 29 September 1887 | |
Sir Matthew Henry Davies | none | 4 October 1887 | April 1892 | |
Sir Thomas Bent | none | 11 May 1892 | September 1894 | |
Sir Graham Berry | none | 4 October 1894 | September 1897 | |
Francis Mason | none | 25 October 1897 | September 1902 | |
Duncan Gillies | Liberal | 14 October 1902 | 12 September 1903 | |
William Beazley | Labor | 16 September 1903 | 10 May 1904 | |
Sir Frank Madden | Liberal | 29 June 1904 | October 1917 | |
Sir John Mackey | Nationalist | 29 November 1917 | 6 April 1924 | |
Sir John Bowser | Nationalist | 30 April 1924 | 5 March 1927 | |
Oswald Snowball | Nationalist | 6 July 1927 | 16 March 1928 | |
Sir Alexander Peacock | Nationalist | 4 July 1928 | 7 October 1933 | |
United Australia | ||||
Maurice Blackburn | Labor | 11 October 1933 | 1 August 1934 | |
William Everard | United Australia | 2 August 1934 | 6 September 1937 | |
Tom Tunnecliffe | Labor | 19 October 1937 | 15 February 1940 | |
William Slater | Labor | 1 May 1940 | 20 October 1942 | |
Sir George Knox | United Australia | 21 October 1942 | 9 October 1947 | |
Liberal | ||||
Sir Thomas Maltby | Liberal | 2 December 1947 | 13 April 1950 | |
Sir Archie Michaelis | Liberal | 20 June 1950 | 31 October 1952 | |
Keith Sutton | Labor | 17 December 1952 | 22 April 1955 | |
Sir William McDonald | Liberal | 15 June 1955 | 19 March 1967 | |
Sir Vernon Christie | Liberal | 16 May 1967 | 18 June 1973 | |
Sir Kenneth Wheeler | Liberal | 19 June 1973 | 28 May 1979 | |
Jim Plowman | Liberal | 29 May 1979 | 26 April 1982 | |
Tom Edmunds | Labor | 27 April 1982 | 24 October 1988 | |
Dr Ken Coghill | Labor | 25 October 1988 | 26 October 1992 | |
John Delzoppo | Liberal | 27 October 1992 | 13 May 1996 | |
Jim Plowman | Liberal | 14 May 1996 | 2 November 1999 | |
Alex Andrianopoulos | Labor | 3 November 1999 | 24 February 2003 | |
Judy Maddigan | Labor | 25 February 2003 | 18 December 2006 | |
Jenny Lindell | Labor | 19 December 2006 | 20 December 2010 | |
Ken Smith | Liberal | 21 December 2010 | 4 February 2014 | |
Christine Fyffe | Liberal | 4 February 2014 | 22 December 2014 | |
Telmo Languiller | Labor | 23 December 2014 | 25 February 2017 | |
Colin Brooks | Labor | 7 March 2017 | Incumbent |
References
- The Speaker
- "Legislative Assembly - Former Speakers". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 September 2011.