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Hammond was born in Northam, Western Australia, and moved to the Perth suburb of City Beach at the age of 10. [1] She studied law at the University of Western Australia, graduating in 1991. [4] Her father Kevin Hammond was the Chief Judge of the District Court of Western Australia. [5]
[4] Griffith (1969) identified four key advantages to establishing a District Court, being (a) decentralising the legal profession to serve areas outside of Perth, (b) enabling Western Australia to legislate for uncontentious divorce petitions to be heard in the District Court, (c) preventing backlog in the Supreme Court, and (d) to establish a ...
Hammond Park is a southern suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Cockburn. Hammond Park was previously part of Banjup , and the suburb was created in March 2002. It was named after James Hammond, a pioneer of the Jandakot district who settled there in 1887.
Timothy Jerome Hammond (born 25 March 1975) is a former Australian politician. He was the member for Perth in the Australian House of Representatives . He is a member of the Australian Labor Party and succeeded the previous member, Alannah MacTiernan , at the 2016 federal election .
22 June 1982 – Perth Mint Swindle – Forty-nine gold bars (68 kg in total) valued at up to A$653,000 (A$6.4 million at 2023 gold prices) were stolen from the Perth Mint in Western Australia. Three brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian Mickelberg, were found guilty of the conspiracy and sentenced in 1983 to twenty, sixteen and twelve years ...
Map of local government areas in Western Australia. There are 137 local government areas (LGAs) in Western Australia, [1] which comprise 27 cities, 102 shires, and 8 towns that manage their own affairs to the extent permitted by the Local Government Act 1995. [2]
However, in Western Australia, until 2008 an MP represented 28,519 voters in greater Perth (the Metropolitan Region Scheme area) or 14,551 country voters. [2] At the 2006 census taken on 8 August 2006, 73.76% of Western Australia's residents lived in and around Perth, [ 3 ] but only 34 of Western Australia's 57 Legislative Assembly seats ...
The Attorney-General of Western Australia is the member of the Government of Western Australia responsible for maintenance and improvement of Western Australia's system of law and justice. Before the advent of representative government in 1870, the title was Advocate-General of Western Australia. The Attorney-General must be a qualified legal ...