Syd Negus

Syd Negus

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. [ [http://www.aph.gov.au/library/handbook/historical/senate/index.htm Parliamentary Handbook - Members of the Senate since 1901] ] He was previously a carpenter and building contractor.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|date=2005|accessdate=2007-11-23]

Negus was elected largely on an anti-death duties 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. [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=2007-11-23] His campaign established a groundswell of public support and Queensland was the first state to abolish death duties in 1977; the Commonwealth and other states followed soon after by abolishing their respective death and gift duties.

He was defeated in the 1974 election.

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