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- Eric_Deeral abstract "Eric Deeral (23 August 1932 – 5 September 2012) was an Australian politician who was the second Australian Aboriginal person elected to an Australian parliament and the first to a state parliament.A member of the Gamay clan of the Guugu Yimithirr people, Deeral was born at Hope Vale Lutheran Mission in Cape York, Queensland and educated at Woorabinda, to which he was evacuated during World War II. Deeral left school at 13 and worked as a labourer and stockman before becoming Chairman of the Hope Vale Mission Community Council in 1957.At a meeting of Guugu Yimithirr clans on Palm Island, Queensland in 1964, elders decided to become more politically involved and nominated Deeral to run for parliament.Joining the Country Party, Deeral worked with the Queensland Department of Aboriginal Affairs and won pre-selection for the Queensland state seat of Cook (which covered Cape York and the Torres Strait Islands) for the 1974 Queensland state election. Normally a safe Labor seat, Deeral won Cook as part of a landslide win to the National (as the Country Party had been renamed) and Liberal Party coalition. Deeral's victory was considered to be due to the proposal of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's plan to realign Australia's Torres Strait border with Papua New Guinea. Deeral became the second Indigenous Australian to be elected to an Australian parliament, after Neville Bonner's election to the Australian Senate in 1971, and the first to a state or territory parliament.While in parliament Deeral advocated for improved roads in his electorate to help develop tourism and other industries, as well as securing improvements to locals schools and medical access. In the lead up to the 1977 state election, Deeral's chances of reelection were hurt when the Queensland Government deferred a national eye health program for Aboriginals currently underway in the electorate of Cook due to allegations of members of the program campaigning for the Labor Party. At the election, Deeral lost his seat in a swing away from the Nationals, with the deferral of the eye health program given as a factor in the loss.Following the election loss, Deeral continued to work with local Aboriginal communities, becoming the inaugural chair of the Aboriginal Coordination Council in 1985 and in 1987 was a delegate to the World Heritage Committee session in Paris, as well as appointed as Chairman of the Legislation Review Committee that examined Queensland legislation and its impact on Aboriginal land rights during the early 1990s.From 1998 to 2003, Deeral was a member of the Wet Tropics Management Authority Board and in July 2002 was appointed interim chair of the Yalanji Ang-Narra Yimidihirr Peoples Council, as well as taking an active role as a Guugu Yimithirr Elder.In 2012, Queensland's Indigenous Youth Parliament was renamed the Eric Deeral Indigenous Youth Parliament in Deeral's honour. He died later that year.".
- Eric_Deeral activeYearsEndDate "1977-11-12".
- Eric_Deeral activeYearsStartDate "1974-12-07".
- Eric_Deeral birthDate "1932-08-23".
- Eric_Deeral birthDate "1932-12-14".
- Eric_Deeral birthPlace Australia.
- Eric_Deeral birthPlace Hopevale,_Queensland.
- Eric_Deeral birthYear "1932".
- Eric_Deeral deathDate "2012-09-05".
- Eric_Deeral deathPlace Australia.
- Eric_Deeral deathPlace Queensland.
- Eric_Deeral deathYear "2012".
- Eric_Deeral occupation Stockman_(Australia).
- Eric_Deeral office "Queensland Legislative".
- Eric_Deeral party National_Party_of_Australia.
- Eric_Deeral region Electoral_district_of_Cook.
- Eric_Deeral successor Bob_Scott_(politician).
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- Eric_Deeral wikiPageWikiLinkText "Deeral, Eric".
- Eric_Deeral wikiPageWikiLinkText "Eric Deeral".
- Eric_Deeral after Bob_Scott_(politician).
- Eric_Deeral assembly "Queensland Legislative".
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- Eric_Deeral birthDate "1932-08-23".
- Eric_Deeral birthPlace "Hopevale, Queensland, Australia".
- Eric_Deeral citizenship "Australian".
- Eric_Deeral constituencyAm Electoral_district_of_Cook.
- Eric_Deeral dateOfBirth "1932-12-14".
- Eric_Deeral dateOfDeath "2012-09-05".
- Eric_Deeral deathDate "2012-09-05".
- Eric_Deeral deathPlace "Hopevale, Queensland, Australia".
- Eric_Deeral education "Woorabinda Central School".
- Eric_Deeral name "Deeral, Eric".
- Eric_Deeral name "Eric Deeral".
- Eric_Deeral occupation "Stockman, labourer".
- Eric_Deeral party National_Party_of_Australia.
- Eric_Deeral placeOfBirth Australia.
- Eric_Deeral placeOfBirth Hopevale,_Queensland.
- Eric_Deeral predecessor Edwin_Wallis-Smith.
- Eric_Deeral shortDescription "Australian politician".
- Eric_Deeral successor Bob_Scott_(politician).
- Eric_Deeral termEnd "1977-11-12".
- Eric_Deeral termStart "1974-12-07".
- Eric_Deeral title "Member for Cook".
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- Eric_Deeral years "1974".
- Eric_Deeral description "Australian politician".
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