Hugh Delahunty

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The Honourable Hugh Delahunty
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Wimmera
In office 18 September 1999 – 30 November 2002
Preceded by	Bill McGrath
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Lowan
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 November 2002
Preceded by	Seat recreated
Personal details
Born	Hugh Francis Delahunty (1949-06-28) 28 June 1949 Murtoa, Victoria, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Political party	National Party of Australia
Relations	Mary Delahunty (sister)

Hugh Francis Delahunty (born 28 June 1949) is the Nationals member for Lowan in the Victorian Parliament.

Political career

Delahunty was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in the 1999 election to represent the electorate of Wimmera with 58% of the two party preferred vote. He was returned to Parliament at the 2002 election after a redistribution as the Member for Lowan with 67% of the two party vote, and was re-elected at the 2006 election with a massive 72% of the two party vote.

Delahunty is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Drugs and Crime Prevention Committee, a board member of VicHealth and is a charter member of the Lions Club of State Parliament Victoria.

He is currently the Minister for Sport & Recreation^[1] and Minister for Veterans Affairs.

Personal life

Delahunty was born and educated in Murtoa, a wheat district town in country Victoria. His secondary education was at Monivae College, Hamilton and further studies at the William Angliss Food and Trade School, Melbourne. He farmed for four years on the family grain and sheep property before moving to Melbourne and later Donald before settling in Horsham. Delahunty worked as a Meat Industry Standards Officer until 1990 when he commenced employment as a Rural Affairs Adviser for the Office of Rural Affairs (Agriculture Victoria and later Department of Sustainability and Environment).

During the early 1970s he played Australian rules football in the Victorian Football League (VFL) with Essendon. Recruited from Murtoa, Delahunty made 46 senior appearances for Essendon and kicked 18 goals.^[2] A keen sportsman, Delahunty participated in and coached many sports in the Wimmera and is a Life Member of the Murtoa Football Club.

Delahunty has been actively involved in community activities for many years. He was a Councillor and Mayor for the former Horsham City Council, Chairman of Commissioners of the Mildura Rural City, and the first Mayor and a Councillor of the new Horsham Rural City Council.

Delahunty is married with three adult sons. He is the brother of former Australian Labor Party Victorian Government minister Mary Delahunty.

References

↑ Wilson, Caroline (19 March 2011). "AFL takes right turn".
↑ Holmesby, Russell & Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia Of AFL Footballers. BAS Publishing. ISBN 9781920910785.

External links

Official website
The Nationals – Victoria
Hugh Delahunty's statistics from AFL Tables

Political offices
Preceded by John Brumby	Minister for Veterans' Affairs (Victoria) 2010–present	Incumbent
Preceded by James Merlino	Minister for Sport and Recreation (Victoria) 2010–present	Incumbent
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Bill McGrath	Member for Wimmera 1999–2002	Succeeded by Seat abolished
Preceded by Seat recreated	Member for Lowan 2002–present	Incumbent

v t e Current members of the Cabinet of Victoria

Napthine Ryan Asher Clark Dalla-Riva Davis Delahunty Dixon Guy Hall Kotsiras Lovell Mulder O'Brien O'Donohue Powell Rich-Phillips Smith Walsh Wells Wooldridge

v t e Current Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly

Labor (43)	Jacinta Allan Daniel Andrews Ann Barker Liz Beattie Colin Brooks Christine Campbell Anthony Carbines Ben Carroll Lily D'Ambrosio Luke Donnellan Joanne Duncan Maree Edwards John Eren Martin Foley Jane Garrett Judith Graley Danielle Green Bronwyn Halfpenny Joe Helper Jill Hennessy Steve Herbert Geoff Howard Natalie Hutchins Marlene Kairouz Jennifer Kanis Sharon Knight Telmo Languiller Hong Lim Frank McGuire Justin Madden James Merlino Don Nardella Lisa Neville Wade Noonan Martin Pakula Tim Pallas John Pandazopoulos Jude Perera Fiona Richardson Robin Scott Marsha Thomson Ian Trezise Richard Wynne

Liberal (34)	Neil Angus Louise Asher Ted Baillieu Brad Battin Donna Bauer Gary Blackwood Neale Burgess Robert Clark Martin Dixon Christine Fyffe Michael Gidley David Hodgett Andrew Katos Nicholas Kotsiras Andrew McIntosh Cindy McLeish Elizabeth Miller David Morris Terry Mulder Denis Napthine Clem Newton-Brown Michael O'Brien Dee Ryall Ken Smith Ryan Smith David Southwick Murray Thompson Bill Tilley Heidi Victoria Nick Wakeling Graham Watt Kim Wells Mary Wooldridge Lorraine Wreford

National (10)	Tim Bull Peter Crisp Hugh Delahunty Tim McCurdy Russell Northe Jeanette Powell Peter Ryan Bill Sykes Peter Walsh Paul Weller

Independent (1)	Geoff Shaw

Persondata
Name	Delahunty, Hugh
Alternative names
Short description	Australian politician
Date of birth	28 June 1949
Place of birth	Murtoa, Victoria, Australia
Date of death
Place of death

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