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The seat is named after Vivian Bullwinkel, an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War who was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre. [4] [5]A number of objections were received to adoption of the name, as Bullwinkel had only a tenuous connection with Western Australia and no association with the area covered by the new division, and a local nurse from the Bangka ...
The 18 land districts (formerly counties) on the island of Tasmania. Tasmania is divided into 20 land districts, subdivided into 480 parishes. These include the former 18 counties, which were renamed land districts [when?] and retained the same borders. In addition Flinders Island and King Island are now also districts. In the nineteenth and ...
McGinn sought Labor preselection for the new federal Division of Bullwinkel, [2] but was defeated by Shire of Mundaring deputy president Trish Cook in September 2024 after the federal branch intervened. [3] [4] The following day, McGinn announced his retirement from politics at the 2025 state election. [5]
Lieutenant Colonel Vivian Statham, AO, MBE, ARRC, ED (née Bullwinkel; 18 December 1915 – 3 July 2000) was an Australian Army nurse during the Second World War.She was the sole surviving nurse of the Bangka Island Massacre, when the Japanese killed 21 of her fellow nurses on Radji Beach, Bangka Island, in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) on 16 February 1942.
2025 is the first election year in Western Australia where electoral reforms implemented in November 2021 will take effect for the Legislative Council.This reform eliminated seats in the Legislative Council, making each region more equal in size while creating a single electorate for all members elected under a one-vote, one-value system.
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The first of 362 district land offices was opened at Steubenville, Ohio, on July 2, 1800; the last at Newcastle, Wyoming, on March 1, 1920. The peak year for land offices was 1890, with 123 in operation. The subsequent closing of the public domain gradually reduced the number of land offices, until, in 1933, only 25 offices remained. [3]