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Oh 955 Nick Minchin
STATE LIBRARY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA J. D. SOMERVILLE ORAL HISTORY COLLECTION OH 955 Full transcript of an interview with Nick Minchin on 19 October 2010 By Susan Marsden for the EMINENT AUSTRALIANS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Recording available on CD Access for research: Unrestricted Right to photocopy: Copies may be made for research and study Right to quote or publish: Publication only with written permission from the State Library OH 955 NICK MINCHIN NOTES TO THE TRANSCRIPT This transcript was created by the J. D. Somerville Oral History Collection of the State Library. It conforms to the Somerville Collection's policies for transcription which are explained below. Readers of this oral history transcript should bear in mind that it is a record of the spoken word and reflects the informal, conversational style that is inherent in such historical sources. The State Library is not responsible for the factual accuracy of the interview, nor for the views expressed therein. As with any historical source, these are for the reader to judge. It is the Somerville Collection's policy to produce a transcript that is, so far as possible, a verbatim transcript that preserves the interviewee's manner of speaking and the conversational style of the interview. Certain conventions of transcription have been applied (ie. the omission of meaningless noises, false starts and a percentage of the interviewee's crutch words). Where the interviewee has had the opportunity to read the transcript, their suggested alterations have been incorporated in the text (see below). On the whole, the document can be regarded as a raw transcript. -
Fairness and Unfairness in South Australian Elections
Fairness and Unfairness in South Australian Elections Glynn Evans Thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts Politics Department University of Adelaide July 2005 Table Of Contents Chapter I Fairness and Unfairness in South Australian Elections 1 Theoretical Framework of Thesis 4 Single-Member Constituencies and Preferential Voting 7 Chapter 2 The Importance of Electoral System 11 Electoral Systems and Parly Systems t7 Duverger's 'Law' Confirmed in South Australia l9 Chapter 3 South Australia Under Weighted Voting 22 Block Vote Methods Pre-1936 23 Preferential Voting 1938-197 5 32 The 1969 Changes 38 Comparative Study: Federal Elections 1949-197 7 42 Chapter 4 South Australia Under One Vote One Value 51 South Aushalian Elections 197 7 -1982 52 The 1985 and 1989 Elections 58 What the 1991 Report Said 60 Comparative Study: the 1989 Westem Australian Election 67 Comparative Study: the 1990 Federal Election 7l Chapter 5 The X'airness Clause Develops 75 Parliamentary Debates on the Faimess Clause 75 The 199 1 Redistribution Report 80 Changes to Country Seats 81 Changes to Mehopolitan Seats 83 What Happened at the 1993 Election 86 The 1994 Redistribution and the Sitting Member Factor 88 The 1997 Election 95 Chapter 6 The Fairness Clause Put to the Test 103 The 1998 Redistribution 103 The2002 Election 106 Peter Lewis and the Court of Disputed Returns Cases 110 Chapter 7 Other Ways of Achieving Fairness Itg Hare-Clark t23 Mixed Systems: MMP and Parallel 13s New Zealand under MMP 136 Parallel Systems t45 Optional Preferential Voting t47 -
EASTICK, Bruce
DON DUNSTAN FOUNDATION 1 DON DUNSTAN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT Bruce EASTICK This is George Lewkowicz for the Don Dunstan Foundation History Project interviewing Dr Bruce Eastick, who was a member of parliament in the early ’70s, became Leader of the Opposition in 1972 and was a member of parliament through to the early ’90s. Dr Eastick, thanks very much for doing this interview for the Don Dunstan Foundation History Project. Can you just talk briefly about yourself so we have some idea of your educational, employment background and how you got into politics? I was the elder son of Thomas and Ruby Eastick, born in the home at Colonel Light Gardens or actually on the edge of Colonel Light Gardens, which was known as Reade Park. Locally it was known as ‘Snobsville’ because (laughs) it was a private development, whereas Colonel Light Gardens had been a major government development after the First World War. I went to Colonel Light Gardens Primary School through to grade seven and then up to Urrbrae Agricultural High School where I went through to Leaving. I had gained a particular interest in agriculture or farming, mainly because my mother’s elder sister was on a farm at Avon in the Lower North here and I’d spent quite a lot of time up there, and hence on to Urrbrae. From Urrbrae I went directly to Roseworthy Agricultural College – still wanting to be a “cocky”, or a farmer – and during the first year at Roseworthy College a team of horses or a number of horses young and old broke into a wheat crop and I was one of a series of students that was called upon by the then College veterinarian, Phil Schinckel, to give a hand to treat the horses and said, ‘That’s for me’.