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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2007–2011

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ17012608 ↗
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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served in the 54th Parliament were elected at the 2003 and 2007 elections. As members serve eight-year terms, half of the Council was elected in 2003 and did not face re-election in 2007, and the members elected in 2007 did not face re-election until 2015. The President was Peter Primrose until 17 November 2009 and then Amanda Fazio.

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This entry incorporates text from “Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 2007–2011” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.