Graeme Campbell (politician)
Graeme Campbell | |
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Member of the Australian Parliament for Kalgoorlie | |
In office 18 October 1980 – 3 October 1998 |
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Preceded by | Mick Cotter |
Succeeded by | Barry Haase |
Leader of the Australia First Party | |
In office June 1996 – June 2001 |
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Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born |
13 August 1939 Oxfordshire, England |
Nationality | English Australian |
Political party |
Labor (1980–95) Independent (1995–96, 2004–present) Australia First (1996–2001) One Nation (2001–2004) |
Spouse | Michele (née Lelievre) |
Occupation | Various |
Graeme Campbell (born 13 August 1939) is an Australian far-right politician. Campbell represented the vast seat of Kalgoorlie in the Australian House of Representatives from 1980 to 1998 as a member of the Australian Labor Party. Campbell later founded the nationalist Australia First Party, before joining Pauline Hanson's One Nation.
Biography
Campbell was born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, and came to Australia as a child. He was educated at Urrbrae Agricultural High School in South Australia. In 1972, Campbell met his future wife, French-Australian Michele Lelievre, at a sheep station in the Nullarbor Plain. Campbell worked in a range of occupations before entering federal parliament in October 1980 as the Labor member for Kalgoorlie.
Considered a maverick, he was an ardent supporter of the mining industry, and crossed the floor on gold tax in 1988, and was also a vocal critic of the Mabo decision and sanctions on the apartheid regime in South Africa, and a proponent of uranium mining. In October 1993, and again in May 1995, he delivered a speech at the national seminar of the Australian League of Rights, a far-right group for which he was believed to hold sympathies, and in by-elections in Mackellar and Warringah (safe Liberal seats on the Northern Beaches of Sydney) in 1994, he urged electors to vote for Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI).
After numerous run-ins with the Labor leadership and considerable media attention to his exploits, he was finally expelled from the party on 30 November 1995 after addressing an AAFI meeting where he criticised Labor's immigration policies. He continued to sit in parliament as an independent, and was reelected as an independent in the 1996 election, when he only received 35% of the primary vote, but defeated the Labor candidate, former Deputy Premier of Western Australia Ian Taylor, on Liberal preferences.
In June 1996, Campbell founded the Australia First Party, but was officially reckoned as an independent. He was defeated for reelection at the 1998 federal election after being eliminated on the seventh count. Campbell blamed his loss on Australia First being eclipsed by One Nation. In 2009, he claimed that, if not for the presence of a One Nation candidate, he would have picked up an additional 8.5% of the vote, which would have been enough to keep him in the race.
He remained Australia First's leader until June 2001, when he left the party to stand (unsuccessfully) as a One Nation Senate candidate in Western Australia. In 2004, he attempted unsuccessfully to regain his old federal seat as an independent. He stood for the Senate in Western Australia at the 2007 federal election as an independent, but only achieved 0.13% of the vote.
Electoral performance
House
2004
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Barry Haase | 29,475 | 45.46 | +2.86 | |
Labor | Tom Stephens | 20,691 | 31.92 | -3.14 | |
Independent | Graeme Campbell | 6,654 | 10.26 | +10.26 | |
Greens | Kado Muir | 4,101 | 6.33 | +2.55 | |
One Nation | Robin Scott | 1,511 | 2.33 | -6.27 | |
Christian Democrats | Craig Hendry | 827 | 1.28 | +1.28 | |
Independent | Brendon Cook | 506 | 0.78 | +0.78 | |
Democrats | Don Hoddy | 496 | 0.77 | -2.75 | |
Citizens Electoral Council | Lorraine Thomas | 318 | 0.49 | +0.33 | |
Independent | Nabil Haji Rowland | 252 | 0.39 | +0.39 | |
Total formal votes | 64,831 | 94.66 | +0.26 | ||
Informal votes | 3,656 | 5.34 | -0.26 | ||
Turnout | 68,487 | 83.53 | -3.28 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Barry Haase | 36,502 | 56.30 | +1.96 | |
Labor | Tom Stephens | 28,329 | 43.70 | -1.96 | |
Liberal hold | Swing | +1.96 |
1998
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Barry Haase | 19,169 | 28.03 | +1.43 | |
Labor | Clark Butson | 18,890 | 27.62 | -6.11 | |
Australia First | Graeme Campbell | 15,585 | 22.79 | +22.79 | |
One Nation | Neville Smith | 5,737 | 8.39 | +8.39 | |
National | Kathy Finlayson | 4,088 | 5.98 | +4.78 | |
Greens | Robin Chapple | 2,899 | 4.24 | +0.51 | |
Democrats | Dean Richter | 1,367 | 2.00 | -0.18 | |
Christian Democrats | Laurie Sugg | 466 | 0.68 | +0.68 | |
Citizens Electoral Council | Ian Burt | 185 | 0.27 | +0.27 | |
Total formal votes | 68,386 | 95.35 | -1.87 | ||
Informal votes | 3,335 | 4.65 | +1.87 | ||
Turnout | 71,721 | 86.97 | -1.86 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Liberal | Barry Haase | 35,632 | 52.10 | +52.10 | |
Labor | Clark Butson | 32,754 | 47.90 | +8.25 | |
Liberal gain from Independent | Swing | +52.10 |
1996
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Independent | Graeme Campbell | 21,895 | 35.13 | +35.13 | |
Labor | Ian Taylor | 21,648 | 34.73 | -19.63 | |
Liberal | Cedric Wyatt | 15,144 | 24.30 | -10.32 | |
Greens | Deborah Botica | 2,324 | 3.73 | -0.45 | |
Democrats | David Thackrah | 1,318 | 2.11 | -0.53 | |
Total formal votes | 62,329 | 97.23 | -0.19 | ||
Informal votes | 1,777 | 2.77 | +0.19 | ||
Turnout | 64,106 | 88.83 | -0.89 | ||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Independent | Graeme Campbell | 37,536 | 60.35 | +60.35 | |
Labor | Ian Taylor | 24,666 | 39.65 | -20.24 | |
Independent gain from Labor | Swing | +20.24 |
1993
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Graeme Campbell | 35,187 | 54.36 | +4.88 | |
Liberal | Don Green | 22,406 | 34.61 | +2.42 | |
Greens | Robin Chapple | 2,702 | 4.17 | -2.14 | |
Independent | James O'Kenny | 2,001 | 3.09 | +3.09 | |
Democrats | Shyama Peebles | 1,713 | 2.65 | -5.37 | |
Natural Law | Byron Rigby | 723 | 1.12 | +1.12 | |
Total formal votes | 64,732 | 97.42 | +1.01 | ||
Informal votes | 1,713 | 2.58 | -1.01 | ||
Turnout | 66,445 | 89.72 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 38,770 | 59.94 | -0.29 | |
Liberal | Don Green | 25,907 | 40.06 | +0.29 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -0.29 |
1990
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Graeme Campbell | 29,883 | 49.5 | -4.9 | |
Liberal | Louie Carnicelli | 19,441 | 32.2 | -3.3 | |
Democrats | Vin Cooper | 4,839 | 8.0 | +3.6 | |
Greens | Robin Chapple | 3,815 | 6.3 | +6.3 | |
National | Dascia Weckert | 1,810 | 3.0 | -2.7 | |
Grey Power | Josh Sacino | 606 | 1.0 | +1.0 | |
Total formal votes | 60,394 | 96.4 | |||
Informal votes | 2,248 | 3.6 | |||
Turnout | 62,642 | 89.1 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 36,326 | 60.2 | +1.7 | |
Liberal | Louie Carnicelli | 23,980 | 39.8 | -1.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +1.7 |
1987
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Graeme Campbell | 30,841 | 52.6 | +1.3 | |
Liberal | David Johnston | 21,850 | 37.3 | -3.6 | |
National | Ron Smales | 3,363 | 5.7 | +5.7 | |
Democrats | Frank Chulung | 2,593 | 4.4 | +1.4 | |
Total formal votes | 58,647 | 93.8 | |||
Informal votes | 3,899 | 6.2 | |||
Turnout | 62,546 | 88.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 33,223 | 56.7 | +0.7 | |
Liberal | David Johnston | 25,420 | 43.3 | -0.7 | |
Labor hold | Swing | +0.7 |
1984
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Graeme Campbell | 27,903 | 51.3 | -3.8 | |
Liberal | Douglas Krepp | 22,241 | 40.9 | +1.9 | |
Nuclear Disarmament | David Nourish | 2,623 | 4.8 | +4.8 | |
Democrats | William Mason | 1,649 | 3.0 | +0.0 | |
Total formal votes | 54,416 | 92.4 | |||
Informal votes | 4,485 | 7.6 | |||
Turnout | 58,901 | 87.3 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 30,476 | 56.0 | -2.0 | |
Liberal | Douglas Krepp | 23,940 | 44.0 | +2.0 | |
Labor hold | Swing | -2.0 |
1983
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Labor | Graeme Campbell | 34,843 | 56.6 | +11.4 | |
Liberal | Douglas Krepp | 23,069 | 37.5 | -9.0 | |
Democrats | Blair Nancarrow | 1,856 | 3.0 | -5.3 | |
Independent | Joseph Boschetti | 1,778 | 2.9 | +2.9 | |
Total formal votes | 61,546 | 97.7 | |||
Informal votes | 1,459 | 2.3 | |||
Turnout | 63,005 | 86.0 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 59.5 | +8.9 | ||
Liberal | Douglas Krepp | 40.5 | -8.9 | ||
Labor hold | Swing | +8.9 |
1980
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Liberal | Mick Cotter | 26,562 | 46.5 | -1.8 | |
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 25,845 | 45.2 | +6.8 | |
Democrats | Trevor Butler | 4,723 | 8.3 | +2.0 | |
Total formal votes | 57,130 | 97.6 | |||
Informal votes | 1,419 | 2.4 | |||
Turnout | 58,549 | 87.7 | |||
Two-party-preferred result | |||||
Labor | Graeme Campbell | 28,889 | 50.6 | +8.1 | |
Liberal | Mick Cotter | 28,241 | 49.4 | -8.1 | |
Labor gain from Liberal | Swing | +8.1 |
Senate
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Quota | 171,822 | ||||
Liberal | 1. David Johnston (elected 1) 2. Alan Eggleston (elected 3) 3. Michaelia Cash (elected 5) 4. Michael Mischin 5. Jane Mouritz 6. Matt Brown |
555,868 | 46.22 | -3.12 | |
Labor | 1. Louise Pratt (elected 2) 2. Mark Bishop (elected 4) 3. Ruth Webber |
433,046 | 36.00 | +3.48 | |
Greens | 1. Scott Ludlam (elected 6) 2. Alison Xamon 3. Brenda Roy |
111,813 | 9.30 | +1.24 | |
Christian Democrats | 1. Gerard Goiran 2. Peter Watt |
21,179 | 1.76 | -0.12 | |
National | 1. Tony Crook 2. Wendy Duncan |
17,365 | 1.44 | +0.58 | |
Democrats | 1. Erica Lewin 2. Rob Olver 3. Don Hoddy |
12,604 | 1.05 | -0.95 | |
One Nation | 1. James Hopkinson 2. Ron McLean |
11,623 | 0.97 | -1.48 | |
Democratic Labor | 1. Bob Boulger 2. Eric Miller |
11,390 | 0.95 | +0.95 | |
Family First | 1. Linda Rose 2. Cathie Fabian 3. Steve Fuhrmann |
10,341 | 0.86 | +0.01 | |
What Women Want | 1. Meryki Basden 2. Saywood Lane |
3,533 | 0.29 | +0.29 | |
Climate Change | 1. Gary Warden 2. Sarah Bishop |
3,461 | 0.29 | +0.29 | |
Group P | 1. Graeme Campbell 2. John Fischer 3. Russell Graham 4. Geoff Gibson |
1,621 | 0.13 | +0.13 | |
Carers Alliance | 1. Thomas Hoyer 2. Shirley Primeau |
1,571 | 0.13 | +0.13 | |
Climate Conservatives | 1. Gerard Kettle 2. Shirley Anton |
1,569 | 0.13 | +0.13 | |
Citizens Electoral Council | 1. Jean Robinson 2. Stuart Smith |
1,002 | 0.08 | -0.11 | |
Non-Custodial Parents | 1. Geoff Dixon 2. Mike Ward |
946 | 0.08 | -0.07 | |
Socialist Alliance | 1. Trent Hawkins 2. Julie Gray |
928 | 0.08 | +0.08 | |
Senator On-Line | 1. Daniel Mayer 2. Zoe Lamont |
824 | 0.07 | +0.07 | |
Group M | 1. Eric Wynne 2. Kevin Fitzgerald |
819 | 0.07 | +0.07 | |
Liberty & Democracy | 1. Peter Whelan 2. Daniel Parker |
591 | 0.05 | +0.05 | |
Independent | Richard McNaught | 291 | 0.02 | +0.02 | |
Group Q | 1. Jennifer Armstrong 2. Michael Tan |
271 | 0.02 | +0.02 | |
Independent | Edward Dabrowski | 94 | 0.01 | +0.01 | |
Total formal votes | 1,202,750 | 97.58 | +1.12 | ||
Informal votes | 29,797 | 2.42 | -1.12 | ||
Turnout | 1,232,547 | 93.86 | +0.20 |
Elected | # | Senator | Party | |
2001 | 1 | Alan Eggleston | Liberal | |
2001 | 2 | Mark Bishop | Labor | |
2001 | 3 | David Johnston | Liberal | |
2001 | 4 | Ruth Webber | Labor | |
2001 | 5 | Ross Lightfoot | Liberal | |
2001 | 6 | Andrew Murray | Democrats | |
1998 | ||||
1998 | 1 | Chris Ellison | Liberal | |
1998 | 2 | Peter Cook | Labor | |
1998 | 3 | Ian Campbell | Liberal | |
1998 | 4 | Chris Evans | Labor | |
1998 | 5 | Brian Greig | Democrats | |
1998 | 6 | Sue Knowles | Liberal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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Quota | 157,933 | ||||
Liberal |
1. Alan Eggleston (elected 1) 2. David Johnston (elected 3) 3. Ross Lightfoot (elected 5) 4. Winston Crane 5. Kim Keogh 6. Nigel Hallett |
443,597 | 40.13 | +1.7 | |
Labor |
1. Mark Bishop (elected 2) 2. Ruth Webber (elected 4) 3. Mark Cuomo 4. Gavin Waugh |
377,547 | 34.15 | -0.4 | |
One Nation | 1. Graeme Campbell 2. Gerry Kenworthy 3. Marye Daniels 4. Peter David |
77,757 | 7.03 | -3.0 | |
Democrats |
1. Andrew Murray (elected 6) 2. Helen Hodgson 3. Damian Meyer |
64,773 | 5.86 | -0.5 | |
Greens | 1. Rachel Siewert 2. Lee Bell 3. Paul Smith 4. Jenna Zed |
64,736 | 5.86 | +0.2 | |
National | 1. Hendy Cowan 2. Margaret Day |
26,015 | 2.35 | +1.2 | |
Liberals for Forests | 1. Liz Davenport 2. Arthur Harris |
15,646 | 1.42 | +1.4 | |
Christian Democrats | 1. Justin Moseley 2. Kerry Watterson |
13,809 | 1.25 | +0.4 | |
Progressive Labour | 1. Eddie Hwang 2. Nicholas Chin |
7,667 | 0.69 | +0.7 | |
Group A | 1. Jim Dalton 2. Kate Dalton |
4,495 | 0.41 | +0.4 | |
Curtin Labor Alliance | 1. Adrian Bennett 2. June Bennett |
3,494 | 0.32 | +0.3 | |
Group B | 1. Geoff Taylor 2. Henry Sheil |
1,631 | 0.15 | +0.2 | |
Citizens Electoral Council | 1. Jean Robertson 2. John Watson |
1,243 | 0.11 | +0.0 | |
Unity | 1. Eddie Hwang 2. Nicholas Chin |
811 | 0.07 | -1.0 | |
Independent | Jennifer Lee | 804 | 0.07 | +0.1 | |
Taxi Operators | 1. Alan Bateson 2. Ramon Kennedy |
670 | 0.06 | +0.06 | |
Group K | 1. Frank Nesci 2. Renu Schneider |
532 | 0.05 | +0.05 | |
Group M | 1. Clarrie Isaacs 2. Daniel Watson |
302 | 0.03 | +0.03 | |
Total formal votes | 1,105,529 | 96.42 | -0.63 | ||
Informal votes | 41,025 | 3.58 | +0.63 | ||
Turnout | 1,146,554 | 95.04 | -0.78 |