Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Condamine
In office 7 March 1953 – 28 May 1960
Preceded by
Frederick Allpass
Succeeded by
Vic Sullivan
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Aubigny
In office 28 May 1960 – 27 May 1972
Preceded by
Walter Sparkes
Succeeded by
Seat abolished
Personal details
Born
Leslie Frank Louis Diplock
(1899-09-16)16 September 1899 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died
6 November 1983(1983-11-06) (aged 84) Sandgate, Queensland, Australia
Political party
Queensland Labor Party Democratic Labor Party
Other political affiliations
Labor
Spouse
Olive Constance Becker
Occupation
Teacher
Leslie Frank Louis "Les" Diplock CMG (16 September 1899 – 6 November 1983) was an Australian politician.
Diplock was born in South Brisbane to house-painter Louis Diplock and Louisa May, née Lucas and attended state and private schools in Rockhampton. He was a student teacher from 1914 and taught in Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Bribie Island from 1918 to 1924. He married Olive Constance Becker on 20 December 1920 at Taroom. He was head teacher at six successive schools before acting as district inspector of schools for the south-west region from June to December 1952. He was elected to the seat of Condamine in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in 1953 as a Labor Party candidate.
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Diplock was appointed minister for public instruction in 1956, and his ministry was chiefly remembered for a controversial bill providing for a government appointee to head an appointments and promotions repeal board at the University of Queensland; the bill was repealed when the Coalition won government in 1957. During the Labor split of that year, Diplock sided with his leader Vince Gair in splitting away to form the Queensland Labor Party (QLP), and he retained Condamine in that year's election. He transferred to Aubigny in 1960, defeating the sitting Country Party member Walter Sparkes, but by 1963 Diplock was the QLP's sole parliamentary representative. The QLP formally aligned with the national Democratic Labor Party in 1962, although Diplock continued to describe himself as a QLP member until 1969. He continued to represent Aubigny until its abolition in 1972, when he retired following the seat's abolition. He was appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1972.[1]
Diplock, despite being a member of the Catholic-associated DLP, was a devoted Anglican and Freemason. He retired to Scarborough. He died in 1983 at Sandgate and was cremated.[1]
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McConville, Kieran; Patton, Simon (2007). "Leslie Frank (Les) Diplock (1899–1983)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 17. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
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remained in power continuously until the 1989 state election. The ALP elected Les Wood as party leader and Eric Lloyd as deputy leader; neither had previously...
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ALP 20.5% Port Curtis Martin Hanson ALP 31.3% v DLP Crossbench seats (2) Townsville South Tom Aikens IND 9.2% v ALP Aubigny LesDiplock DLP 13.2% v CP...
Queensland state election: Condamine Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor LesDiplock 5,998 54.9 +4.4 Country Stewart Keys 4,919 45.1 -4.4 Total formal votes...
28 May 1960. On 31 May 1958, Jack Duggan (Labor) was elected to succeed Les Wood (Labor), who had died on 29 March 1958, as the member for North Toowoomba...
state election: Aubigny Party Candidate Votes % ±% Queensland Labor LesDiplock 5,065 55.4 -0.9 Country Peter Paull 2,646 28.9 -2.2 Labor Thomas Wilson...
Clayfield Liberal Harold Taylor (Lib) James Ryan (Ind) Condamine Labor LesDiplock Stewart Keys (CP) Cook Labor Bunny Adair John Crossland (CP) Cooroora...
Secretary for Immigration Colin McCathie Secretary for Public Instruction LesDiplock (from 22 June 1956) Minister for Transport Thomas Moores (from 7 May...
state election: Aubigny Party Candidate Votes % ±% Queensland Labor LesDiplock 5,123 56.3 +3.9 Country John Corfe 2,828 31.1 -3.0 Labor Peter Fitzpatrick...
incarnation (1950–1992) Member Party Term Eric Allpass Country 1950–1953 LesDiplock Labor 1953–1957 Queensland Labor 1957–1960 Vic Sullivan Country 1960–1974...
Queensland state election: Condamine Party Candidate Votes % ±% Labor LesDiplock 5,074 50.5 +12.6 Country Eric Allpass 4,975 49.5 -12.6 Total formal votes...
state election: Aubigny Party Candidate Votes % ±% Queensland Labor LesDiplock 4,024 45.9 +45.9 Country Jim Sparkes 3,763 42.9 -57.1 Labor Bruce Strachan...
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