List of mayors of Randwick

Mayor of Randwick
Incumbent
Cr. Noel D'Souza
Independent
since 29 September 2015
Style His/Her Worship
Appointer Randwick City Council
Term length One year
Inaugural holder Ald. Simeon Henry Pearce
Formation 1 April 1859
Deputy Cr. Brendan Roberts (Liberal Party of Australia)
Website www.randwick.nsw.gov.au
Randwick Town Hall, designed in the Italianate style by Sydney architects Blackman and Parkes, has been the seat of the council since 1886.[1]

This is a list of the Mayors of Randwick City Council and its predecessors, a local government area of New South Wales, Australia. The official title of Mayors while holding office is: His/Her Worship The Mayor of Randwick. First incorporated on 1 April 1859 as the Municipality of Randwick, the council area was proclaimed as the City of Randwick on 1 July 1990. On 28 June 1973, the council was dismissed and placed under the control of government administrators after an inquiry into the council's handling of Development Applications, finding significant undeclared conflicts-of-interest between councillors and local developments.[2] It remained under administration until 24 September 1977. On 1 July 1993 following the enactment of a new Local Government Act, elected representatives of the council were to be known as 'Councillor', replacing the former title of 'Alderman'.[3]

The current Mayor of Randwick is Councillor Noel D'Souza (Independent since 3 May 2017), elected on 29 September 2015.

Sir John See, Mayor: 1880–1881, 1886; Premier of New South Wales: 1901–1904.
John Jennings, Mayor: 1929–1930; Member of the Australian House of Representatives: 1931–1940.
Lionel Bowen, Mayor: 1951, 1955; Deputy Prime Minister of Australia: 1983–1990.
Bruce Notley-Smith, Mayor: 2007–2009; First openly Gay Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly: 2011–present.

List of incumbents

Years Chairmen Notes
1859–1860 Simeon Henry Pearce [4]
1861–1862 John Dawson [4]
1863 Charles Moore [4]
1864–1865 John Dawson [4]
1866–1868 Simeon Henry Pearce [4]
Years Mayors Notes
1868–1869 Simeon Henry Pearce [4]
1869 Magnus Peden
1870–1872 Walter Bradley
1873 John Thompson
1874 Thomas Roger Yeo
1875 James Hawkins Butchart
1876 Thomas Stutchbury
1877 – August 1877 William Maguire [5]
1877–1878 George Kiss
1879 George Wall
1880–1881 John See
1882 Simeon Henry Pearce
1883 George Denning
1884 Walter Bradley
1885 George Denning
1886 John See
1887–1889 Thomas Lowe
1890–1892 James Robertson
1893 Henry F. Francis
1894–1895 Frederick W. H. Pearce
1896–1897 John Perry
1898 William Houston
1899 – 3 July 1900 Theodore Powell
1900–1901 Isaac Barker Hodgson
1902–1903 George Gale
1904 James Hincks
1905 James Snape
1906–1907 John Campbell Macdougall
1908–1909 James Snape
1910 Thomas Robert Gilderthorp
1911 Douglas Maxwell Cooper
1912 Thomas Robert Gilderthorp
1913 Archibald Campbell
1914 Douglas Maxwell Cooper
1915 – 22 May 1916 Frederick Henry Clarke
1916–1917 John Fenton
1918–1919 Hyman Goldstein
1920 – December 1921 George James Baker
December 1921 – December 1924 Ernest Tresidder
December 1924 – December 1925 James Ambrose Bardon
December 1925 – December 1926 Ernest Tresidder
December 1926 – December 1928 John Dunningham
December 1928 – December 1930 John Jennings
December 1930 – December 1932 Arthur Moverly
December 1932 – December 1934 Silas Garnet Paine
December 1934 – December 1936 Mark Foots
December 1936 – December 1938 Reginald Fitzgerald Bourke
December 1938 – December 1940 John V. Dick
December 1940 – December 1941 Reginald William Bieler
December 1941 – December 1942 James O'Sullivan
December 1942 – December 1943 John Quinton Henning Rubie
December 1943 – December 1944 George Ernest Rush
December 1944 – December 1945 Reginald William Bieler
December 1945 – December 1946 John V. Dick
December 1946 – December 1947 William John Heffernan
December 1947 – December 1948   Walter Padgen (ALP)
December 1948 – December 1949 Andrew Thomson Bedford
December 1949 – December 1950 George Nicholas Elias Dan
December 1950 – December 1951   Lionel Bowen (ALP)
December 1951 – December 1952   Lou Walsh (ALP)
December 1952 – December 1953 Matthew Dwyer
December 1953 – December 1954   Harry Jensen (ALP)
December 1954 – December 1955   Lionel Bowen (ALP)
December 1955 – December 1956 Ranville Ashmore Popplewell
December 1956 – December 1958 William Henry Lucas
December 1958 – December 1962 A. Charles Molloy
December 1962 – December 1968   Bill Haigh (ALP)
December 1968 – December 1969 Peter Saphin
December 1969 – September 1971 Ranville Ashmore Popplewell
September 1971 – September 1972 F. C. Waller
September 1972 – 28 June 1973 Frank Amour
28 June 1973 – 1 May 1974 Robert Henry Cornish (Administrator) [6][7]
1 May 1974 – 17 September 1977 Jack Hercules Luscombe (Administrator) [8][9]
September 1977 – September 1979   Bill Newman (Independent)
September 1979 – September 1980   Ken Finn (ALP)
September 1980 – September 1983   John Francis Ford (Independent)
September 1984 – September 1984   John Buchanan (Independent)
September 1984 – September 1985   Les Frederick Bridge (Independent)
September 1985 – September 1986   Bill Newman (Independent)
September 1986 – September 1988   John Scullion (ALP)
September 1988 – September 1989   Bill Blake (Independent)
September 1989 – September 1990   Paul Bayutti (Independent) [10]
September 1990 – September 1991   Charles Matthews (Independent)
September 1991 – September 1992   John Buchanan (Independent)
September 1992 – September 1993   Margaret Martin (Independent) [11]
September 1993 – September 1996   Chris Bastic (ALP)
September 1996 – September 1997   Margaret Martin (Independent)
September 1997 – September 1998   Ken Finn (ALP)
September 1998 – September 2004   Dominic Sullivan (ALP)
September 2004 – September 2005   Murray Matson (Greens)
September 2005 – September 2006   Ted Seng (Liberal) [12]
September 2006 – September 2007   Paul Tracey (ALP)
September 2007 – September 2009   Bruce Notley-Smith (Liberal)
September 2009 – September 2010   John Procopiadis (ALP)
September 2010 – September 2011   Murray Matson (Greens)
September 2011 – 25 September 2012   Scott Nash (Liberal)
25 September 2012 – 24 September 2013   Tony Bowen (ALP) [13][14]
24 September 2013 – 30 September 2014   Scott Nash (Liberal) [15]
30 September 2014 – 29 September 2015   Ted Seng (Liberal) [16][17]
29 September 2015 – date   Noel D'Souza (ALP/Independent) [18][19][20]

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Perumal Murphy Pty. Ltd. (January 1988). "90 Avoca Street" (PDF). Randwick Heritage Study. Randwick City Council. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  2. ↑ Cook, Danielle (12 March 1987). "Mayors Approve New Council Law". The Sydney Morning Herald (The Eastern Herald). p. 91 (2). Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Randwick: 150 years of local government". About Randwick. Randwick City Council. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Councillors from 1859". Randwick 150 years of local government. Randwick City Council. Retrieved 7 April 2013.
  5. ↑ Died in office, August 1877.
  6. ↑ "LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1919.—PROCLAMATION.". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (85). New South Wales, Australia. 28 June 1973. p. 2685. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ↑ "Council fired over land planning". The Canberra Times. 47, (13,474). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 June 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ "LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1919.—PROCLAMATION". Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales (50). New South Wales, Australia. 3 May 1974. p. 1584. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ↑ "NSW local polls on September 17". The Canberra Times. 51, (14,617). Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 23 February 1977. p. 16. Retrieved 4 August 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ↑ First Mayor of the 'City of Randwick'.
  11. ↑ First female Mayor.
  12. ↑ Grennan, Harvey (11 October 2005). "Liberals take a big share of the chief job". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  13. ↑ Herbertson, Lisa (2 October 2012). "New Randwick mayor Tony Bowen follows in footsteps of his father, the late deputy prime minister Lionel Bowen". Southern Courier. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  14. ↑ Campion, Vikki (27 September 2012). "Labor clan reclaims Randwick as Tony Bowen elected mayor". The DailyTelegraph. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "Scott Nash elected Randwick mayor for the second time". Southern Courier. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  16. ↑ "Randwick City Council welcomes new Mayor Ted Seng" (Media Release). Randwick City Council. 30 September 2014. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  17. ↑ Suckling, Laura (27 September 2014). "Randwick councillor Ted Seng to be elected Randwick mayor". Southern Courier. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  18. ↑ Aubusson, Laura (30 September 2015). "Labor’s Noel D’Souza elected Randwick mayor without support of fellow Labor councillors". Southern Courier. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  19. ↑ "Matraville chemist Noel D’Souza elected Mayor of Randwick" (Media Release). Randwick City Council. 29 September 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
  20. ↑ Hogg, Marie (8 May 2017). "Randwick Mayor Noel D’Souza has resigned from the Labor Party after breaking ranks with caucus". Southern Courier. Retrieved 4 August 2017.
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