13 Facts About Adrian Bennett

Adrian Frank Bennett was an Australian politician.

Adrian Bennett was a member of the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975, holding the Western Australian seat of Swan for the Australian Labor Party.

Adrian Bennett was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a transport worker.

Adrian Bennett was state secretary of the Transport Workers' Union and sat on the Canning Shire Council, including as deputy president for a period.

Adrian Bennett defeated Cleaver in a rematch at the 1972 election.

Adrian Bennett was re-elected in 1974 but lost his seat to Liberal candidate John Martyr at the 1975 election.

Adrian Bennett was known for driving his car from Perth to Canberra for each session, a journey of around 2,500 miles or three days each way.

Adrian Bennett signed petitions supporting Australian recognition of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and supporting the Builders Labourers Federation's green bans.

In 1976, Adrian Bennett was president of the Association for the Abolition of the Means Test, which sought to remove the means test for the aged pension.

In later life, Adrian Bennett was the secretary of the Municipal Employees Union of Western Australia, an organisation associated with the LaRouche movement.

Adrian Bennett described Lyndon LaRouche as the "world's leading economist" and attributed the LaRouche criminal trials to a conspiracy by the "global oligarchy".

Adrian Bennett further stated that the dismissal of the Whitlam government had been engineered by the British government and that the subsequent Hawke and Keating governments were controlled by the oligarchy.

Adrian Bennett was an unsuccessful candidate for the Curtin Labor Alliance at the 2001 Western Australian state election and 2001 Australian Senate election.