Syd Negus

Sydney Ambrose Negus (12 March 1912 – 1 August 1986) was an Australian politician who was an Independent senator for Western Australia from 1971 until 1974.[1] He was previously a carpenter and building contractor.[2]

Syd Negus
Senator for Western Australia
In office
1 July 1971 – 18 May 1974
Personal details
Born(1912-03-12)12 March 1912
Leederville, Western Australia
Died1 August 1986(1986-08-01) (aged 74)
NationalityAustralian
Political partyIndependent
OccupationCarpenter, contractor

Negus was president of the West Australian Sporting Car Club and competed in the Australian Grand Prix on several occasions.[3]

Negus was elected largely on an anti-inheritance tax platform following the death of his brother, Oscar Negus a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and a realisation of the impost of the tax on widows.[4] His campaign established a groundswell of public support and Queensland was the first state to abolish inheritance taxes in 1977; the Commonwealth of Australia and other states followed soon after by abolishing their respective inheritance and gift taxes.[2]

He was defeated in the 1974 election. He later contested the 1975 Bass by-election as an independent, and at the 1980 federal election for the far-right, anti-immigration Progressive Conservative Party.

References
  1. Parliamentary Handbook - Members of the Senate since 1901 Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. David G. Duff (2005). "The Abolition of Wealth Transfer Taxes: Lessons from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand". University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
  3. "Negus, Sydney Ambrose (1912–1986)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  4. "Review of Western Australian State Taxes 1994". Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law. December 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
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