Brendan Smyth (politician)
| Brendan Smyth | |
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| Member of the ACT Legislative Assembly | |
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In office 21 February 1998 – 15 July 2016 Serving with Wood/Burch, Hargreaves/Gentleman, Kaine/Pratt/Doszpot/Seselja/Lawder, Osborne/MacDonald/Bresnan/Wall |
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| Constituency | Brindabella |
| Member of the Australian Parliament for Canberra | |
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In office 25 March 1995 – 2 March 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Ros Kelly |
| Succeeded by | Bob McMullan |
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Brendan Michael Smyth 27 July 1959 Sydney, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Australia |
| Website | Profile at CanberraLiberals.org |
Brendan Michael Smyth (born 27 July 1959) is a former Australian politician, who was a member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Brindabella for the Liberal Party from 1998 until 2016. From 2002 to 2006 Smyth was the ACT Leader of the Opposition and served briefly as the Deputy Chief Minister during 2000 and 2001. He has held the ACT portfolios Urban Services, Business, Tourism and the Arts, and Police and Emergency Services.
Prior to his election to the ACT Legislative Assembly served briefly as the Member for Canberra in the Australian House of Representatives, also representing the Liberals.
Smyth was born in Sydney and moved to Canberra in May 1969. He worked at the National Library of Australia until 1995 when, representing the Liberal Party, he contested the 1995 by-election for the House of Representatives seat of Canberra. Normally a safe Labor seat, its previous member Ros Kelly had left under a cloud, having been forced to resign her ministry a year earlier over the sports rorts affair, and Smyth received a 16.1% swing to claim the seat.
At the Australian federal election on 2 March 1996, Smyth contested the new federal House of Representatives seat of Namadgi, essentially the southern portion of his old seat, even though it had been drawn with a notional Labor majority of 10.9 percent. He was defeated by Labor's Annette Ellis. To date, he is the last non-Labor member to represent an ACT-based seat.
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