| 词条 | Syd Negus |
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| honorific-prefix = | name = Syd Negus | honorific-suffix = | image = | title = Senator for Western Australia | term_start = 1 July 1971 | term_end = 18 May 1974 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1912|3|12}} | birth_place = Leederville, Western Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1986|8|1|1912|3|12}} | death_place = | nationality = Australian | spouse = | party = Independent | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = | occupation = Carpenter, contractor | profession = | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }}Sydney Ambrose Negus (12 March 1912 — 1 August 1986) was an Australian politician who was an Independent senator for Western Australia from 1971 until 1974.[1] He was previously a carpenter and building contractor.[2] Negus was elected largely on an anti-inheritance tax platform following the death of his brother, Oscar Negus a Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia and a realisation of the impost of the tax on widows.[3] His campaign established a groundswell of public support and Queensland was the first state to abolish inheritance taxes in 1977; the Commonwealth of Australia and other states followed soon after by abolishing their respective inheritance and gift taxes.[2] He was defeated in the 1974 election. He later contested the 1975 Bass by-election as an independent, and at the 1980 federal election for the far-right, anti-immigration Progressive Conservative Party. References1. ^Parliamentary Handbook - Members of the Senate since 1901 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725081044/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/senate/index.htm |date=25 July 2008 }} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Negus, Sydney}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://law.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3046&context=expresso|title=The Abolition of Wealth Transfer Taxes: Lessons from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand|author=David G. Duff|work=University of Toronto Faculty of Law|year=2005|accessdate=23 November 2007}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v1n4/94chap5.txt|title=Review of Western Australian State Taxes 1994|work=Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law|date=December 2004|accessdate=23 November 2007}} 7 : 1912 births|1986 deaths|Independent members of the Parliament of Australia|Members of the Australian Senate|Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia|Australian carpenters|20th-century Australian politicians |
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