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Australian politician

Jim Plowman
27th Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
In office
29 May 1979 – 26 April 1982
Preceded bySir Kenneth Wheeler
Succeeded byTom Edmunds
In office
14 May 1996 – 2 November 1999
Preceded byJohn Delzoppo
Succeeded byAlex Andrianopoulos
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
for Evelyn
In office
19 May 1973 – 2 April 1982
Preceded byRussell Stokes
Succeeded byMax McDonald
In office
2 March 1985 – 17 September 1999
Preceded byMax McDonald
Succeeded byChristine Fyffe
Personal details
BornSidney James Plowman
(1934-12-13)13 December 1934
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died3 May 2007(2007-05-03) (aged 72)
Political partyLiberal Party
SpousePrudence Sophie Manifold (m. 1970)
OccupationFarmer and grazier
Military service
AllegianceAustralia
Branch/serviceAustralian Army
Years of service1957–1959
UnitPapua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles

Sidney James Plowman (13 December 1934 – 3 May 2007) was an Australian politician. A Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Plowman was Speaker of the Assembly on two occasions, from 1979 to 1982 and from 1996 to 1999.

Early life

Plowman was born in Melbourne to Dr Sidney Plowman of Frankston and his wife Marjorie. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, after which he was an executive trainee at a civil engineering company in Melbourne. After his national service, he moved to Papua New Guinea, where he worked on a coffee plantation and in a timber milling company. He served in the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, a battalion of Australia's Citizens Military Forces, from 1957 to 1959.

Upon his return to Australia, he worked as a jackaroo in Queensland and New South Wales. He was appointed as overseer of the "Nareen" property in Western Victoria, then owned by future Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. He managed his own family's property at Benalla, before moving to Glenburn in 1964.

Political career

In 1959, Plowman had joined the Benalla branch of the Liberal Party. He entered politics as a councillor on the Yea Shire Council in 1970, also marrying Prudence Manifold that year. Three years later, he was elected to state parliament as member of the Legislative Assembly for Evelyn. In 1979, he was elected Speaker of the Assembly, aged 44, he was the youngest Speaker up to that time. Plowman lost his seat at the 1982 state election, and returned to farming for a time until regaining Evelyn in 1985.

When the Liberals won government under Jeff Kennett in 1992, Plowman became Minister for Energy and Minerals (a portfolio he had held in Kennett's shadow cabinet) and Minister Assisting the Treasurer on State Owned Enterprises. He lost the ministry in a 1996 reshuffle, but was elected Speaker for a second time in May 1996, and served as such until his retirement in 1999.

References

  1. "Family Notices". The Argus. Melbourne. 14 December 1934. p. 1. Retrieved 29 October 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ Condolences - Hon Sidney James Plowman, Parliament of Victoria Hansard, 5 June 2007.
  3. ^ Plowman, Sidney James ('Jim'), re-member (Parliament of Victoria).
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded byRussell Stokes Member for Evelyn
1973–1982 		Succeeded byMax McDonald
Preceded byMax McDonald Member for Evelyn
1985–1999 		Succeeded byChristine Fyffe
Political offices
Preceded bySir Kenneth Wheeler Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
1979–1982 		Succeeded byTom Edmunds
New ministry Minister for Energy and Minerals
1992–1996 		Succeeded byPat McNamaraas Minister for Agriculture and Resources
Preceded byJohn Delzoppo Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
1996–1999 		Succeeded byAlex Andrianopoulos
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