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Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
About Neville Newell
- Neville Joseph Newell (born 14 October 1952) is an Australian politician.
- He served as a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1990 until 1996 and as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2007. Newell was born in Sydney, received a Diploma of Applied Science from the Hawkesbury Agricultural College and a Diploma of Education from the Armidale College of Advanced Education, now part of the University of New England.
- He was a teacher in the Riverina and Lismore before running for Parliament. In 1990, Newell was preselected as the Australian Labor Party candidate for Richmond, a historically rural seat in northern New South Wales.
- The seat was held by the leader of the National Party, Charles Blunt.
- Newell was initially given little chance of winning, since he was running in what had historically been a strongly conservative seat.
- It had been in the hands of the non-Labor parties since Federation, and the Nationals had held it without interruption since 1922 though their margin had been declining in recent years.
- In the election, Newell only won 27 percent of the first preference vote.
- However, on the seventh count, anti-nuclear activist Helen Caldicott's preferences flowed overwhelmingly to Newell, allowing him to defeat Blunt and become the first Labor member ever to win Richmond.
- Newell was only the second person to defeat a major federal party leader in an election.
- He was reelected in 1993 over the Nationals' Larry Anthony, but was defeated by Anthony in 1996. Newell tried to regain his old seat in 1998, but narrowly lost.
- He subsequently won the state seat of Tweed from the National Party in 1999, but was defeated by National candidate Geoff Provest in 2007.
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