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| honorific-prefix = The Right Honourable | name = Reg Withers | honorific-suffix = | image = Reg Withers 1991.png | caption = Withers in 1991 as Lord Mayor of Perth | title = Senator for Western Australia | term_start1 = 17 February 1966 | term_end1 = 25 November 1966 | predecessor1 = Sir Shane Paltridge | title2 = Lord Mayor of Perth | term_start2 = 1991 | term_end2 = 1994 | predecessor2 = Chas Hopkins | successor2 = Peter Nattrass | term_start = 1 July 1968 | term_end = 6 June 1987 | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1924|10|26}} | birth_place = Bunbury, Western Australia | death_date = {{Nowrap| {{death date and age|df=yes|2014|11|15|1924|10|26}} }} | death_place = Perth, Western Australia | birthname = Reginald Greive Withers | nationality = Australian | spouse = | party = Liberal Party of Australia | relations = | children = | residence = | alma_mater = University of Western Australia | occupation = | profession = Solicitor, barrister | religion = | signature = | website = | footnotes = | nickname = | allegiance = Australia | branch = Royal Australian Navy | serviceyears = 1942–1946 | rank = | unit = HMAS Leeuwin }} Reginald Greive Withers (26 October 1924 – 15 November 2014) was a long-serving member of the Australian Senate, a government minister, and Lord Mayor of Perth. Early lifeWithers was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. Withers was the son of Frederick Withers, a former Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly. Withers was educated at Perth Technical College. Withers served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1942 until 1946 before returning to Australia to study law at the University of Western Australia under the ex-servicemen's scheme. While at university, Withers opposed what he saw as the authoritarian stance of the Chifley Labor government and joined the Liberal Party of Australia.[1] CareerReturning to Bunbury to practise law, first as a solicitor and, from 1953, a barrister, Withers was elected to Bunbury Municipal Council and began to involve himself in Liberal Party affairs, serving at various times as Liberal Party State President and Vice-President and Federal Vice-President.[2] Withers entered the Senate on 17 February 1966 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Sir Shane Paltridge, but lost his seat later that year, before returning to the Senate in 1968. Described as having a "jovial manner and perpetual grin", Withers quickly gained a reputation as the Liberal numbers man and served as Senate Government Whip from 1969–71. After the defeat of the McMahon government in 1972, Withers became Opposition Leader in the Senate, where he retained a thin majority and acted to block much of the Whitlam Government's legislation. Withers was widely known as "The Toecutter" for his alleged approach to enforcing party loyalty and his role in the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. After the dismissal of the Whitlam government on 11 November 1975, Withers was appointed to Malcolm Fraser's first (caretaker) ministry, becoming Vice-President of the Executive Council as well as briefly holding the portfolios of Special Minister of State, Capital Territory, Media, and Tourism and Recreation during the period leading up to the December election. After the election, Withers became Minister for Administrative Services, and continued as Vice-President of the Executive Council until 7 August 1978.[3] He was dismissed by Fraser in the wake of the findings of a Royal Commission into aspects of a redistribution of certain federal electorates in Queensland. The royal commission found that Withers had exercised his ministerial influence in an inappropriate way.[4] At the time he commented about Fraser that "When the man who's carried the biggest knife in this country for the last ten years starts giving you a lecture about propriety, integrity and the need to resign, then he's either making a sick joke or playing you for a mug".[5] Later careerWithers was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1977. He retired from federal politics at the 1987 double dissolution, and was subsequently elected Lord Mayor of Perth, in which role he served from 1991 until the council's dissolution in 1994. He was also a monarchist delegate to the 1998 Constitutional Convention.[6] Having served as President of the WA Liberal Party from 1961 to 1965, Withers made an unsuccessful attempt to return to this position in 1995[7] when he challenged incumbent and future state MP David Honey. DeathWithers died in Perth, Western Australia on 15 November 2014, aged 90.[8] References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/alumni/1950s |title=Alumni – 1950s |publisher=University of Western Australia |accessdate=3 April 2009 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090713103739/http://www.law.uwa.edu.au/alumni/1950s |archivedate=13 July 2009 }} {{s-start}}{{s-off}}{{s-bef|before= Gordon Bryant}}{{s-ttl|title= Minister for the Capital Territory |years=1975–75 }}{{s-aft | after=Eric Robinson}}{{s-bef|before= Doug McClelland}}{{s-ttl|title= Special Minister of State |years=1975 }}{{s-non| reason = Title abolished }}{{s-bef|before=Tom Drake-Brockman }}{{s-ttl|title= Minister for Administrative Services |years=1975–78 }}{{s-aft | after=Peter Durack}}{{s-bef|before= Frank Stewart }}{{s-ttl|title= Vice-President of the Executive Council |years=1975–78 }}{{s-aft | after=John Carrick}}{{s-ppo}}{{s-bef | before=Ken Anderson}}{{s-ttl | title=Leader of the Liberal Party in the Senate | years=1972–78}}{{s-aft | after=John Carrick}}{{s-civ}}{{s-bef | before=Chas Hopkins}}{{s-ttl | title=Lord Mayor of Perth | years=1991–94}}{{s-aft | after=Peter Nattrass}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Withers, Reg}}2. ^{{cite book|last=Faine|first=John|title=Taken on oath: a generation of lawyers|publisher=Federation Press|year=1992|isbn=1-86287-101-9}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://australianpolitics.com/articles/executive/ministerial-resignations-and-dismissals-since-1901|title=Ministerial Resignations and Dismissals Since 1901|publisher=australianpolitics.com|accessdate=3 April 2009}} 4. ^National Archives of Australia: Background to the 1978 Cabinet records. Retrieved 19 November 2014 5. ^{{cite book|last=Tiffen|first=Rodney|title=Scandals: media, politics & corruption in contemporary Australia|publisher=UNSW Press|year=1999|pages=168|isbn=0-86840-601-5}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.norepublic.com.au/index.php?Itemid=4&id=639&option=com_content&task=view|title=Australia's first republican movement |last=Flint|first=David|date=27 May 2006|publisher=norepublic.com.au|accessdate=3 April 2009}} 7. ^http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22media%2Fradioprm%2FV8E20%22 8. ^{{cite news|title=Former Perth lord mayor and Senator Reg Withers dies at 90|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-18/former-perth-lord-mayor-reg-withers-dies/5899134|accessdate=18 November 2014|work=ABC News|date=18 November 2014}} 16 : 1924 births|2014 deaths|Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia|Members of the Australian Senate|Members of the Cabinet of Australia|1975 Australian constitutional crisis|Mayors and Lord Mayors of Perth, Western Australia|Australian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom|Recipients of the Centenary Medal|Royal Australian Navy sailors|Royal Australian Navy personnel of World War II|People from Bunbury, Western Australia|Australian monarchists|University of Western Australia alumni|Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia|20th-century Australian politicians |
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