Ernest Quinn
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Ernest Quinn (known as Ernie) was an Australian politician, elected as a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the western Sydney seat of Wentworthville. Ernie held the seat for 26 years and was elected nine consecutive times in the period from 1962 until his retirement in 1988. He died on 24th July 1992.
Ernie was born in 1926 in Lithgow, NSW into a coal mining family and was one of six children. He spent his early working life as a telecommunications technician before his election for Wentworthville at the age of 36. Initially a member of the NSW Right-wing faction of the Labor Party, Quinn defected to the Left in 1978.
Ernie's parliamentary career was distinguished by a stint as Labor's shadow spokesperson for labour and industry as well as involvement in parliamentary committees on electoral funding and liquor trading and his work on the parliamentary superannuation scheme. Much of his parliamentary work was focussed on the needs of his electorate, which at the time of his initial election was an unsewered semi-rural area without one single set of traffic lights. The development and implementation of better infrastructure in the working-class area was the prime focus of Quinn's career. Memorials within the electorate include a plaque commemorating his dedication of Ringrose Public School, and the public reserve named "Ernie Quinn Village Green".
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Parliamentary Speeches made upon Quinn's death[1]
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