Syd Negus
Syd Negus | |
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Senator for Western Australia | |
In office 1 July 1971 – 18 May 1974 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Leederville, Western Australia | 12 March 1912
Died | 1 August 1986 | (aged 74)
Political party | Independent |
Occupation | carpenter, contractor |
Sydney Ambrose Negus (12 March 1912 – 1 August 1986) was an Australian politician who was an independent senator for Western Australia from 1971 until 1974.[1] He was previously a carpenter and building contractor.[2]
Negus was president of the West Australian Sporting Car Club and competed in the Australian Grand Prix on several occasions.[3]
Negus was elected largely on an anti-inheritance tax platform, following the death of his brother, Oscar Negus a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which led to Syd Negus' realisation of the impost of the tax on widows.[4] His campaign established a groundswell of public support and Queensland was the first state to abolish inheritance taxes in 1977; the Commonwealth of Australia and other states followed soon after by abolishing their respective inheritance and gift taxes.[2]
Negus was defeated in the 1974 election. He later contested the 1975 Bass by-election as an independent and, at the 1980 federal election, was a candidate for the far-right, anti-immigration Progressive Conservative Party.
References
- ^ Parliamentary Handbook - Members of the Senate since 1901 Archived 25 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b David G. Duff (2005). "The Abolition of Wealth Transfer Taxes: Lessons from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand". University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
- ^ "Negus, Sydney Ambrose (1912–1986)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
- ^ "Review of Western Australian State Taxes 1994". Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law. December 2004. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
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