Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 1989–1991

This is a list of the members of the first parliament of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly. It was the Territory's first representative parliament after gaining self-government, and operated from 1989 to 1991.

Members of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, 1989–1991

The first two parliaments were elected under the one-electorate modified d'Hondt method, which was then abolished and replaced with the current three-electorate Hare-Clark system in 1995.

Name	Party	Term in office
Wayne Berry	ALP	1989–2008
Bernard Collaery	Residents Rally	1989–1991
Terry Connolly[3]	ALP	1990–1996
Craig Duby	No Self-Government Party/ Independents Group/ Hare-Clark Independent Party[2]	1989–1991
Rosemary Follett	ALP	1989–1996
Ellnor Grassby	ALP	1989–1995
Gary Humphries	Liberal	1989–2002
Norm Jensen	Residents Rally	1989–1991
Trevor Kaine	Liberal	1989–2001
Dr Hector Kinloch	Residents Rally	1989–1991
Carmel Maher	No Self-Government Party/ Independents Group[2]	1989–1991
Michael Moore	Residents Rally/Independent[1]	1989–2001
Robyn Nolan	Liberal/New Conservative Group[4]	1989–1991
David Prowse	No Self-Government Party/ Independents Group/Liberal[2]	1989–1991
Bill Stefaniak	Liberal	1989–1992, 1994–2008
Dennis Stevenson	Abolish Self-Government Coalition	1989–1995
Paul Whalan[3]	ALP	1989–1990
Bill Wood	ALP	1989–2004

¹ Michael Moore was elected as a Residents Rally member, but resigned from the party on 24 October 1989 and served out his term as an independent.

² Craig Duby, Carmel Maher and David Prowse were elected as representatives of the No Self-Government Party, but resigned to form the Independents Group on 3 December 1989. Prowse left the Independents Group to join the Liberal Party on 31 July 1990, Duby left to found the Hare-Clark Independent Party on 19 November 1991, and Maher served out her term under the Independents Group name.

³ ALP member Paul Whalan resigned from the Assembly on 30 April 1990. The vacancy was filled by the ALP's Terry Connolly.

⁴ Robyn Nolan was elected as a Liberal member, but resigned from the party on 22 October 1991. She became an independent until founding the New Conservative Group on 19 November.

See also

• 1989 Australian Capital Territory election