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Robin Scott (Western Australian politician)

Western Australian politician (born 1953)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ30122084 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robin David Scott (born 21 March 1953) is an Australian politician. He was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2017 state election, as a One Nation member in Mining and Pastoral Region. He served until his defeat in 2021.

Scott previously contested the Division of Kalgoorlie at the 2001 and 2004 federal elections. He also contested the Division of Brand at the 2007 election.

Editorial summary

“Robin Scott (Western Australian politician)” enters the record as western Australian politician (born 1953). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robin, Scott and Western can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 2017, 2021, 2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-03-21. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Robin, Scott and Western.
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Why this record matters

“Robin Scott (Western Australian politician)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Robin, Scott and Western provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q30122084. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953, 2017, 2021 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robin Scott (Western Australian politician)” 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.