Hugh Delahunty
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The Honourable Hugh Delahunty |
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| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Wimmera |
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In office 18 September 1999 – 30 November 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Bill McGrath |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Lowan |
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In office 30 November 2002 – 29 November 2014 |
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| Preceded by | Seat recreated |
| Succeeded by | Emma Kealy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Hugh Francis Delahunty 28 June 1949 Murtoa, Victoria, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party | National Party of Australia |
| Relations |
Mary Delahunty (sister) Mike Delahunty (brother) |
| Hugh Delahunty | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Hugh Francis Delahunty | ||
| Date of birth | 28 June 1949 | ||
| Playing career | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1971–1973 | Essendon | 47 | |
| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Mary Delahunty (sister)
Hugh Francis Delahunty (born 28 June 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a National Party of Australia member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2014, representing the electorates of Wimmera (1999–2002) and Lowan (2002–2014). He served as Minister for Sport and Recreation and Minister for Veterans Affairs in the Baillieu and Napthine Coalition governments from 2010 to 2014. Delahunty is the brother of former state Labor minister Mary Delahunty.
Delahunty was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the 1999 election to represent the electorate of Wimmera with 58% of the two party preferred vote. He was returned to Parliament at the 2002 election after a redistribution as the Member for Lowan with 67% of the two party vote, and was re-elected at the 2006 election with a massive 72% of the two party vote.
Delahunty is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee, a board member of VicHealth and is a charter member of the Lions Club of State Parliament Victoria.
He retired from politics in 2014.
Delahunty was born and educated in Murtoa, a wheat district town in country Victoria. His secondary education was at Monivae College, Hamilton and further studies at the William Angliss Food and Trade School, Melbourne. He farmed for four years on the family grain and sheep property before moving to Melbourne and later Donald before settling in Horsham. Delahunty worked as a Meat Industry Standards Officer until 1990 when he commenced employment as a Rural Affairs Adviser for the Office of Rural Affairs (Agriculture Victoria and later Department of Sustainability and Environment).
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