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Place of Birth: Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia
About Garry Kelly
- Garry Kenneth Kelly (26 May 1948 – 11 July 2002) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1982 to 1993.
- He stood for parliament eight times in total, winning four elections. Kelly was born in Perth to Rita Phyllis (née Limmer) and Kenneth John Kelly.
- He attended Manjimup Senior High School, Northam Senior High School, and Melville Senior High School before going on to the Western Australian Institute of Technology (graduating with a physics degree) and the University of Western Australia (graduating with a teaching certificate).
- Before entering parliament, he worked as a schoolteacher, teaching at Armadale Senior High School and Applecross Senior High School.
- Kelly first ran for parliament at the age of 22, contesting the Legislative Council's Metropolitan Province (a Liberal Party safe seat) at the 1971 state election.
- At the next three state elections, he ran for the Legislative Assembly, contesting South Perth at the 1974 election and Murdoch at the 1977 and 1980 elections.
- In 1980, Kelly collapsed at work and fractured his skull.
- His injury left him in a coma for several weeks and required brain surgery followed by a lengthy period of recovery.In 1982, Kelly won a Legislative Council by-election for South Metropolitan Province, occasioned by the resignation of Howard Olney.
- He was re-elected at the 1986 state election, and was subsequently appointed deputy chairman of committees.
- At the 1989 election, Kelly's old seat was abolished and he was elected to the new five-member South Metropolitan Region.
- He was elected chairman of committees in March 1992, replacing Jim Brown.
- However, prior to the 1993 election, "factional manoeuvres" relegated Kelly to the unwinnable third position on the Labor ticket, and he lost his seat.
- Kelly committed suicide in July 2002, aged 54, after a period of depression.
- He had married twice, having three children by his first wife (who died of breast cancer in 1998) and two step-children from his second marriage.
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