14-697: Bruce McDonald may refer to: Bruce McDonald (Australian politician) (born 1935), New South Wales politician Bruce McDonald (director) (born 1959), Canadian film and TV director Bruce McDonald (judge) (died 2005), Canadian judge Bruce Alexander McDonald (1925–1993), officer in the Australian Army Bruce J. McDonald (Michigan politician) (1866–1923), Michigan politician Bruce McDonald (academic) , American professor of public budgeting and finance See also [ edit ] Bruce MacDonald (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by
28-874: A Cadet Engineer for the Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board from 1951 to 1956. Subsequently, he became a Member of the Institute of Engineers and the Royal Australian Planning Institute . He served as the Foundation President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia from 1962 to 1964 and again from 1974 to 1976, becoming a Life Member. He was elected for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Kirribilli , after he defeated
42-466: A daughter and four sons. One of his sons, Dave Mason , was the lead singer of Australian band The Reels . Mason joined the Liberal Party and was elected as the member for Dubbo , a large rural seat in central New South Wales which had been vacant owing to the death of the sitting member Les Ford in 1964, in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1 May 1965 election with 62%, holding
56-807: A place to study theology at the University of Sydney while resident at St Andrew's College . Later, Mason studied at the Methodist Leigh College from 1949 to 1951 and later at the Melbourne College of Divinity in 1951. Upon graduating from his theological studies, Mason became a Methodist minister and was first posted to Lismore in 1952, then the Northern Territory from 1953 to 1955, Goulburn from 1951 to 1958, Tighes Hill from 1958 to 1962 and then finally to Dubbo from 1962 to 1965. On 27 March 1953, he married Lorna Boxsell and together had
70-573: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Bruce McDonald (Australian politician) Bruce John McDonald , AM (born 26 May 1935) is a former Australian politician having held senior positions with the Liberal Party of Australia at the New South Wales , South Australian and federal levels. He was Leader of the Opposition of New South Wales from 1 June to 12 October 1981, when he lost
84-607: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation from 1996 to 2006. John Mason (Australian politician) John Marsden Mason (born 20 November 1928) is a former Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 16 years. Mason was born in Rose Bay in Sydney in 1928, the son of Kay Mason and Stella Marsden. After his secondary education at Sydney Boys High School , Mason gained
98-620: The Legislative Assembly, it would not be until Luke Foley in 2015 that a sitting Opposition Leader succeeded in moving to a new seat in the Legislative Assembly. Following his loss McDonald moved to South Australia, settling in the Adelaide suburb of Kent Town , and becoming a Member of the SA State Executive (1984-1993), Executive Vice-president from 1984 to 1987 and President of Liberal Party of South Australia from 1987 to 1990. He
112-602: The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee. McDonald was then elected as Deputy Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party, and was Deputy Leader of the Opposition in 1978 under Leader John Mason , until Mason was deposed by a party poll in late May 1981. Elected the party's leader on 1 June 1981, McDonald led the party to its massive defeat at the 1981 election . His seat was abolished, and he opted to follow most of his constituents into
126-454: The election to Labor Premier Neville Wran . McDonald lost the parliamentary seat he contested at the same election. McDonald was born in the Sydney suburb of Drummoyne in 1935 and was educated at Drummoyne Boys' High School and Sydney Technical High School . He studied civil engineering and urban planning at Sydney Technical College and the University of Sydney and was later employed as
140-521: The newly created seat of North Shore . However, he was defeated by the independent candidate, North Sydney Council mayor Ted Mack . McDonald's defeat in North Shore meant that the 1981 election was the second election in a row in which the sitting Opposition Leader had failed to win a seat in Parliament, after Peter Coleman in 1978. As McDonald had made an unsuccessful attempt to move to another seat in
154-408: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bruce_McDonald&oldid=1176769251 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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#1733086283144168-509: The seat until his retirement in 1981. Mason served on the backbench throughout the Askin government, later being appointed to the Zoological Board of New South Wales (1973–1975). When Askin retired, his successor as premier, Tom Lewis , appointed him as Minister for Lands and Minister for Forests on 30 June 1975. Mason served until Lewis was deposed by Sir Eric Willis on 23 January 1976. He
182-410: The sitting member John Waddy for preselection before the 1976 election . Waddy resigned from the party and contested the seat as an independent, but lost by a large margin to McDonald. As a member, McDonald served in various Parliamentary committees and Shadow portfolios, including as Shadow Treasurer, Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Affairs, Business and Consumer Affairs and Deputy Chairman of
196-571: Was also made a Life Member of the State Council of SA. Afterwards he switched to federal politics, becoming Federal Vice-president of the Liberal Party of Australia (1998-2005) and a Member of Federal Executive from 1987 to 1990 and 1998–2005. He has recently moved to NSW Central Coast where he remains active in the NSW Liberal Party. His brother Donald McDonald had served as chairman of
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