George Cash

George Cash AM
14th President of the Western Australian Legislative Council
In office 27 May 1997 – 21 May 2001
Premier	Richard Court
Preceded by	Clive Griffiths
Succeeded by	John Cowdell
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council
In office 22 May 1989 – 22 May 2009 Serving with Berinson, Edwards, Piantadosi, Dermer, Travers, Giffard, Burton, Pike, MacLean, Davies, Lightfoot, Cadby, Evans, Halligan, Collier, Hodgson, Watson
Constituency	North Metropolitan
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
In office 1984 – 22 May 1989
Preceded by	Ray O'Connor
Succeeded by	seat abolished
Constituency	Mount Lawley
Personal details
Born	Samuel Ernest Cash (1946-09-12) 12 September 1946 (age 78) Subiaco, Western Australia
Political party	Liberal Party
Children	4 (including Michaelia Cash)
Alma mater	University of Western Australia

Samuel Ernest "George" Cash AM^[1] (born 12 September 1946 in Subiaco, Western Australia) is a former Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party, he represented Mount Lawley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly,^[2] and later was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, representing the North Metropolitan Region.

Biography

Cash was awarded a Bachelor of Laws and then a Master of Laws at the University of Western Australia, later completing a Bachelor of Business. He worked as a business proprietor and a company director before entering parliament.

Prior to entering parliament, Cash was a City of Stirling councillor.^[3]

In 1984, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mount Lawley at a by-election resulting from the resignation from parliament of then premier Ray O'Connor. Cash was re-elected in 1986 but the seat was abolished in a redistribution in 1988. He then switched to the Western Australian Legislative Council and was elected in the 1989 state election under the new proportional system which came into effect for the council. He served 20 years in that chamber, including four years as President between 1997 and 2001, while Richard Court was Premier, and was for several years thereafter the deputy president. He announced his retirement before the 2008 election, and his term ended on 21 May 2009.

In 2010 Cash was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for service to the Parliament of Western Australia, and to the community.^[1] He is the father of Western Australian Senator Michaelia Cash.

References

1. "CASH, George: Member of the Order of Australia". It's an Honour. Commonwealth of Australia. 26 January 2010. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
2. "Extract from the Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook". 2008. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
3. Tate, Lee (29 January 1992). "Former Premier Denies Being a Bond "Bag Man"". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 12 March 2023.