Candidates of the 1975 Australian federal election explained

This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1975 Australian federal election. The election was held on 13 December 1975.

Seat changes

• Two Senate seats each were created for the Australian Capital and Northern Territories.
• The member for Higgins, John Gorton (Independent), contested the Senate in the ACT.

Retiring Members and Senators

Labor

• Jim Cope MP (Sydney, NSW)
• Fred Daly MP (Grayndler, NSW)
• Bill Fulton MP (Leichhardt, Qld)
• Tony Luchetti MP (Macquarie, NSW)
• Len Reynolds MP (Barton, NSW)
• Senator George Poyser (Vic)
• Senator Don Willesee (WA)

Liberal

• Nigel Drury MP (Ryan, Qld)
• Dudley Erwin MP (Ballaarat, Vic)
• David Fairbairn MP (Farrer, NSW)
• Jim Forbes MP (Barker, SA)
• Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson (NSW)
• Senator John Marriott (Tas)

National Country

• John England MP (Calare, NSW)
• Senator Ellis Lawrie (Qld)

Independent

• Senator Cleaver Bunton (NSW)

House of Representatives

Sitting members at the time of the election are shown in bold text. Successful candidates are highlighted in the relevant colour. Where there is possible confusion, an asterisk (*) is also used.

Australian Capital Territory

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	LM candidate	Other candidates
		Kep Enderby			Tony Harris	Oleg Kavunenko (WP) John Moloney (Ind) Kevin Wise (Ind)
			Ken Fry	George Mailath	Claude Hammond

New South Wales

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
			Vince Martin	Maxwell Gibson (Lib)	Denise Arrow (Ind) Ralph Skelton (WP)
		Murray Gainsford		Jim Bradfield (Lib)	Maxwell Shean (WP) Clifford Willard (AP)
		Noel Welsman		John Howard (Lib)	John Anlezark (Ind) Brian Johnson (AP)
		Michael Ross		Harry Edwards (Lib)	Robert Howard (WP)
			Paul Keating	Joseph Touma (Lib)	Robert Symes (WP)
		John Carmody		David Connolly (Lib)	Christopher Brown (WP)
		Francis Hall		James Ashton (Lib) Sandy Mackenzie* (NCP)
			John Armitage	Shirley Sookee (Lib)
		Ray Thorburn		Don Dobie (Lib)	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind) Marjorie Gray (AP) Philip O'Neill (Ind) Robert Schollbach (WP)
		Colin Clague		Ian Robinson (NCP)	John Holcombe (Ind) John McLachlan (Ind)
			Rex Connor	Peter Swan (Lib)	Bernard Groben (Ind) Peter Robertson (WP)
			John FitzPatrick	Walter Mitchell (NCP)	Walter Miller (Ind)
		Bob Whan		John Moore (NCP) Murray Sainsbury* (Lib)	Frederick Dawson (Ind)
		Allan Mulder		John Abel (Lib)	Frederick Keoghan (Ind) Graham Roll (AP) Warren Wilson (Ind)
		Patrick Brassil		Kevin Bowtell (NCP) Wal Fife* (Lib)	Mike Donelan (AP) Anthony Quinn (DLP) Arthur Robinson (WP)
				Jonathan Fowler (Lib)	Peter Dowd (Ind) Graeme Shortland (Ind) Douglas Spedding (Ind)
		Francis Bourke		Ralph Hunt (NCP)	Norbert Hennessy (Ind) William O'Donnell (Ind)
			Les Johnson	Robert Law (Lib)
				Stephen Lusher (NCP)
			Bert James	Stephen Walker (Lib)
			Lionel Bowen	Desmond Connors (Lib)	Nicholas Confos (Ind)
			Frank Stewart	Donald Carruthers (Lib)	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind) Douglas Morgan (Ind) John Stewart (Ind)
		Robert Hyde		William McMahon (Lib)	Clifford Bros (AP) Ben Doig (Ind) Andris Kichno (WP) Bent Poulsen (Ind)
		Bruce Langford		Philip Lucock (NCP)	Peter Simpson (Ind)
		John Kerin		Michael Baume (Lib)	Ramon Barros (WP) Susan Healy (AP) Barry Watkinson (Ind)
		Kevin Mason		Bill Wentworth (Lib)	Barry Bracken (WP) Jennifer Sheehan (Ind)
				Reg Gillard (Lib)	Murray Busch (WP) Norman Lee (Ind) Ian Perry (Ind)
		David Savage		Alan Cadman (Lib)	Ivor F (Ind) Dimitar Mikusalev (Ind) Alexander Munro (AP) Duncan Yuille (WP)
		John Shanahan		Ian Sinclair (NCP)	Geoffrey Anderson (Ind)
			Charles Jones	Arthur Thomas (Lib)	David Ross (CPA)
		Patrick Healy		Bill Graham (Lib)	Romualds Kemps (Ind) Peter Sawyer (WP)
				Philip Ruddock (Lib)	Malcolm McKinnon (WP) Astrid O'Neill (AP)
		Noel Unicomb		Frank O'Keefe (NCP)	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind) Barnard Hassett (Ind)
		Joe Riordan		Jack Birney (Lib)	Michael Clarke (WP) Marie Morris (AP)
			Dick Klugman	Donald MacDonald (Lib)	Geoffrey Thomas (AP)
			Tom Uren	Terence Shanahan (Lib)	Kevin McKenna (WP)
		Archibald Johnston		Doug Anthony (NCP)	Ethel Adams (Ind) Bernard Walrut (AP)
		John Pollard		John Sullivan (NCP)
			Barry Cohen	Hugh Chalmers (Lib)	Raymond Louis (WP) Phillip Smith (Ind)
		Bill Morrison		Maurice Neil (Lib)	Keith Gleeson (WP)
			Peter Morris	Richard Bevan (Lib)	Lionel Lambkin (Ind) Barbara Timmins (Ind)
				Janis Wallace (Lib)	Laurie Aarons (CPA) Merilyn Giesekam (WP) Roderick MacNeil (Ind)
		Allan Hughes		Michael MacKellar (Lib)	Eric Riches (Ind)
		Mairi Petersen		Bob Ellicott (Lib)	John Curvers (WP) Joseph Zingarelli (AP)
			Gough Whitlam	William Sadler (Lib)	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind) Frederick Keep (Ind) Ross May (Ind) Maurice Sharp (Ind) Ronald Watson (WP)

Queensland

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	Other candidates
		Len Keogh		James Dean (NCP) David Jull* (Lib)	Donald Wright (WP)
		Manfred Cross		Peter Johnson (Lib) Harold Porter (NCP)	Rodney Jeanneret (WP)
		Doug Everingham		Colin Carige (NCP) Alfred Millroy (Lib)
				Tom McVeigh (NCP)
		Rex Patterson		Ray Braithwaite (NCP) Noel McFarlane (NCP)	Colin Bailey (Ind)
		Ivan Guy		Evan Adermann (NCP)	Dennis Marshall (WP)
				Don Cameron (Lib)	Wallace Younger (WP)
		John Rockett		Robert Bonnett (Lib)
		Robert Gleeson		Bob Katter (NCP)	Charles Rendall (WP)
				Laurence Hoins (Lib) David Thomson* (NCP)	Clarence Grogan (Ind) Bernard Marsh (DLP)
				Peter Addison (NCP) Kevin Cairns* (Lib)
		Brian Paterson		Eric Robinson (Lib)	Coral Finlay (WP)
		Reuben Coupe		James Corbett (NCP)	Lindsay Sturgess (WP)
		Lewin Blazevich		James Killen (Lib)	William Appleton (Ind) John Fitzgerald (Ind)
			Bill Hayden	Cornelis Frederiks (Lib) James Shapcott (NCP)	Neil Russell (WP)
		John Hungerford		John Hodges (Lib)
		Colin Taylor		Douglas MacTaggart (NCP) John Moore* (Lib)	David Boughen (WP)
				Clarrie Millar (NCP)	Gerrit Alberts (WP)

South Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	LM candidate	Other candidates
			Chris Hurford	Harold Steele	Robert Hercus	David Middleton (AP)
		Adolf Thiel		Geoffrey Giles	Giordano Graziani	Richard Philippe (WP)
		Graham Bath			Rodney Roberts	Lily Bayly (Ind) Kenneth Williams (NCP)
			Martin Nicholls	Alan Irving	John Longhurst	Robert Durbridge (CPA)
		Mark Pickhaver		John McLeay	Peter Berman	Alexander Hunter (Ind)
			Laurie Wallis	Dennis Burman	Arnold Eckersley
			Ralph Jacobi	Craig Speil
			Clyde Cameron	Valentine Dignum	Ian McGowan	Ross Stanford (Ind)
		Richard Gun			Rodney Adam	Verna Oakley (WP)
			Mick Young	Terence Hanson	Jean Lawrie
				Ian Wilson	Barry Lake	William Forster (WP)
		Irene Krastev		Bert Kelly	John Lienert

Tasmania

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	NCP candidate	Workers candidate
		Michael McLaughlin		Kevin Newman		Kevin Chaffey
		Ron Davies			Barry Whiley	Lance Buckingham
		John Coates			John Hay	Cathryn Stanton
		Ray Sherry			Margaret Franklin Joseph Hand	Peter Mollon
		Gil Duthie			Robert Griffin	William Woods

Victoria

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Coalition candidate	DLP candidate	Australia candidate	Other candidates
		Martin Ryan		Ian Macphee (Lib)	Peter Lawlor	John Howe
				Jim Short (Lib)	Bryan Hanrahan		Glendon Ludbrook (Ind)
			Horrie Garrick	Michael Galli (Lib)	Eileen Doyle
		Stewart Anderson		John Bourchier (Lib) Henry O'Halloran (NCP)	Paul Brennan		Leslie Irlam (Ind)
				Billy Snedden (Lib)	John Lloyd	Iris Pederick	Diana Martin (Ind)
			Keith Johnson	Claus Salger (Lib)	Colin Walsh		Michael Dupla (Ind)
		Race Mathews		Peter Falconer (Lib)	John McKenna	Murray Deerbon	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind)
		Richard Campbell		Tony Staley (Lib)	Joe Stanley	Richard Franklin
		Shirley Ambrose		Tony Street (Lib)	Francis O'Brien	Ian Slater	Brian Costin (Ind)
			Gordon Scholes	Gordon Hall (Lib)	John Timberlake	Guenter Sahr
		Gavan Oakley		Alan Jarman (Lib)	Jim Brosnan	William Inglis	Walter Williams (Ind)
		David McKenzie		Neil Brown (Lib)	Christopher Curtis	John Franceschini	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind) John Duncan (Ind)
		Geoffrey Eastwood		Phillip Lynch (Lib)	John Glynn	Peter Dalton	Stanley Hillman (Ind)
			Ralph Willis	Iris Williams (Lib)
		Peter Turner		Peter Nixon (NCP)	Robert McMahon
		Joan Child		Ken Aldred (Lib)	Terence Farrell	Michael Hughes	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind)
		Andrew Homer		Roger Shipton (Lib)	John Cotter	Rafe Slaney
		Max Oldmeadow		William Yates (Lib)	Robert Fidler
		Tony Ross		Don Chipp (Lib)	Frank Gaffy		John Murray (Ind)
		Alan Bell		Mac Holten (NCP)	Christopher Cody
		Gareth Clayton		David Hamer (Lib)	Ralph Cleary	Eldon Simmons	Marc Aussie-Stone (Ind)
		John Wilkinson		Andrew Peacock (Lib)	Francis Duffy	John Gare
		Tony Lamb		Marshall Baillieu (Lib)	James Penna	Don Walters	Cornelus Helleman (Ind) Ronald Neilsen (Ind)
			Jim Cairns	Francis Purcell (Lib)	Denis Bilston
		Ronald Davies		Peter Fisher (NCP)	Stanley Croughan
			Moss Cass	John Gray (Lib)	Lucia Hayward	Thomas Archay
		William Rutherford		Arthur Hewson (NCP) Barry Simon* (Lib)	Les Hilton		David Little (Ind)
			Ted Innes	Robert Fallshaw (Lib)	Desmond Burke	Veronica Schwarz	Ian Fehring (CPA)
			Frank Crean	Frederick Gray (NCP) Roger Johnston (Lib)	Gordon Haberman	Beverley Broadbent	Henry Sanders (Ind)
		Marjorie Gillies		Bruce Lloyd (NCP)	Patrick Payne
			Harry Jenkins	Gerard Clarke (Lib)	Bernard McGrath		Bernard Irving (Ind)
		Keith Wilson		Malcolm Fraser (Lib)	John Casanova
			Gordon Bryant	Howard Kiel (Lib)	John Flint
		Brian Brooke		Robert King (NCP)	Marjorie McOwan		Francis Petering (Ind)

Western Australia

Electorate	Held by	Labor candidate	Liberal candidate	NCP candidate	Other candidates
		Marilyn Anthony		Mel Bungey
		John Crouch		Victor Garland
		Geoffrey Davy		Peter Drummond	Noel Klopper	Noel Duggan (Ind) Duncan Hordacre (Ind)
			Kim Beazley	Leon Lapinski
		Fred Collard				Graham Mills (WP)
				John Hyde	Graham Anderson
		Joe Berinson				Vic Slater (CPA)
		Graham Reece		Ian Viner		Brian Butterworth (WP)
		Adrian Bennett			Peter Masson
		John Dawkins				Warwick Agnew (WP)

Senate

Sitting Senators are shown in bold text. Since this was a double dissolution election, all senators were up for re-election. The first five successful candidates from each state were elected to six-year terms, the remaining five to three-year terms. Tickets that elected at least one Senator are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are identified by an asterisk (*).

Australian Capital Territory

Two seats were up for election, the first time the ACT had voted for the Senate.

New South Wales

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats (although Lionel Murphy's vacancy had been filled by independent Cleaver Bunton, who did not contest in 1975). The Liberal-NCP Coalition was defending five seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	DLP candidates	Australia candidates	LM candidates	Workers candidates
valign=top	Doug McClelland Jim McClelland Tony Mulvihill Arthur Gietzelt Kerry Sibraa Emily Renshaw	valign=top	Bob Cotton (Lib) John Carrick (Lib) Douglas Scott (NCP) Peter Baume (Lib) Misha Lajovic (Lib) Dorothy Ross (NCP)	valign=top	Jack Kane Peter Daly Anne McCosker Bill Casey James Keogh Peter Westmore	valign=top	Colin Mason Robert Newman Mavis McMillan	valign=top	Terence Morgan Bill Payne	valign=top	John Hill Mark Tier Susan O'Sullivan Neville Kennard John Grant John Edmonds
AFAM candidates	Group A candidates	Group D candidates	Group F candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Frieda Brown Fred Nile Ken Harrison	valign=top	Helen Jarvis Gordon Adler	valign=top	Ron Kelly Robert Khoury	valign=top	Ross Green Lyn Wilson	valign=top	Athol Martin Adrian Alle Noel Howard Darius Pourshasb Lawrence Woods Kenneth Burke Luciano Becher David McPherson	valign=top	Bruce Taber Thomas Guy Reginald Appleby Andrew Boyton Michael Steuart Michael Wojeszlovszky John Breen-Hemingway

Northern Territory

Two seats were up for election, the first time the Northern Territory had voted for the Senate.

Queensland

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal-NCP Coalition was defending six seats. Independent Senator Albert Field, who had been appointed to Labor Senator Bertie Milliner's seat after the latter's death, was defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	DLP candidates	Australia candidates	LM candidates	Workers candidates
valign=top	Jim Keeffe Ron McAuliffe George Georges Mal Colston Colleen Freeman Ken Vaughan	valign=top	Neville Bonner (Lib) Ron Maunsell (NCP) Glen Sheil (NCP) Kathy Martin (Lib) Ian Wood (Lib) Stan Collard (NCP) Richard Austin (Lib)	valign=top	Condon Byrne Jack Williams John Fox Therese Sheil Edgar Lanigan Andrew Jackson	valign=top	John Lamb Arthur Smith	valign=top	Desmond Breen Michael Hartwig Alan Williams	valign=top	David Russell Roger Wickham Susan Benfer
Group G candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	James Drabsch Philip de Felice	valign=top	Leonard Grasishchuk Grace Plunkett Renfrey Clarke Albert Field John McRae Douglas Gillespie	valign=top	Anthony Catip Malcolm Just Anne Glew George Allard Hubert Giesberts	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

South Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Movement was defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	LM candidates	DLP candidates	Socialist candidates	Workers candidates
valign=top	Reg Bishop Jim Cavanagh Don Cameron Geoff McLaren Neal Blewett Arnold Drury	valign=top	Gordon Davidson Don Jessop Condor Laucke Harold Young Tony Messner Jennifer Adamson	valign=top	Steele Hall Michael Wilson Janine Haines Ronald Moulds Stewart McLeod Heather Southcott	valign=top	Ted Farrell Leonie Farrell	valign=top	Bobbie Pointer Muriel Goss Alan Miller	valign=top	John Whiting Andrew Buttfield Antony Hayden-Smith Beverly Borg Leslie Huxley Nelson Cartney
Group B candidates	Group D candidates	Group E candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Frank Darlington John Knight	valign=top	Brett Trenery Peter Abrahamson	valign=top	John Henderson Charles Groves	valign=top	John Steele James Pedley	valign=top		valign=top

Tasmania

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats, but independent Senator Michael Townley had also joined the party.

Victoria

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats. The Liberal-NCP Coalition was defending five seats.

Labor candidates	Coalition candidates	DLP candidates	LM candidates	Australia candidates	Group B candidates
valign=top	Jean Melzer Cyril Primmer John Button Bill Brown Bill Hartley Gareth Evans	valign=top	Ivor Greenwood (Lib) Margaret Guilfoyle (Lib) James Webster (NCP) Sir Magnus Cormack (Lib) Alan Missen (Lib) Tom Tehan (NCP)	valign=top	Frank McManus Jack Little Paul McManus Marianne Crowe Michael Houlihan	valign=top	Andrew Farran Robert Laing Ian Robertson Philip Martyn	valign=top	John Siddons Trevor Cooke Harold Jeffrey	valign=top	John Roseman Alan Anderson
Group C candidates	Group H candidates	Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	Peter Conrick Diane Ewin	valign=top	Bruce McGuinness Elizabeth Hoffman Alma Thorpe	valign=top	Shane Watson Maurice Smith Chris Tsolos Ian Dunne	valign=top	Neil Leicht George Alexander Donald Maggs	valign=top		valign=top

Western Australia

Ten seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending five seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats. The National Country Party was defending one seat.

Labor candidates	Liberal candidates	NCP candidates	DLP candidates	LM candidates	Australia candidates
valign=top	John Wheeldon Gordon McIntosh Peter Walsh Ruth Coleman Bob Hetherington Duncan Graham	valign=top	Reg Withers Peter Durack Peter Sim Fred Chaney Andrew Thomas Cynthia Smart	valign=top	Tom Drake-Brockman David Reid Winifred Piesse Lloyd Nelson Kevin Critch Jennifer Lewis	valign=top	William Sullivan Rosemary Taboni Peter Moorehouse Alan Crofts John Poole Paul Daly	valign=top	Jack Evans Diana Downs Bruce Thomson	valign=top	Robert Russell-Brown John Stuart John Kernot
Workers candidates	Group B candidates	Group F candidates	Group H candidates	Group K candidates	Group L candidates
valign=top	James MacDonald Geoffrey McNeil Valda Harris Kenneth Bellemore Roy Morien	valign=top	Donald Galloway Albert Prince	valign=top	James Mazza Sydney Greenacre George Gaunt	valign=top	Syd Negus Lorraine Negus	valign=top	Francesco Nesci Nellie Stuart	valign=top	Robert Townsend Eric Woodard Kenneth Baines
Ungrouped candidates
valign=top	George Abdullah Keith Lockhart Frederick Bourke Arthur Wight John Furey Mervyn Lambert	valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top		valign=top

Summary by party

Beside each party is the number of seats contested by that party in the House of Representatives for each state, as well as an indication of whether the party contested the Senate election in the respective state.

Party	NSW		Vic		Qld		WA		SA		Tas		ACT		NT		Total
	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S	HR	S
Australian Labor Party	45		34		18		10		12		5		2		1		127	8
Liberal Party of Australia	36		29		12		10		12		5		2				106	7
National Country Party	12		8		14		4		1		5						44	5
Country Liberal Party															1		1	1
Workers Party	22				9		3		2		5		1				42	7
Democratic Labor Party	1		34		1												36	5
Australia Party	13		17						1						1		32	5
Liberal Movement									12				2				14	5
Communist Party of Australia	2		1				1		1								5
Australian Family Action Movement																		1
Socialist Party of Australia																		1
United Tasmania Group																		1
Independent and other	43		19		5		2		5				2				74

See also

• 1975 Australian federal election
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1974–1975
• Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1975–1977
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1974–1975
• Members of the Australian Senate, 1975–1978
• List of political parties in Australia

References

• Adam Carr's Election Archive - House of Representatives 1975
• Adam Carr's Election Archive - Senate 1975