Tony Lamb

Lamb was born on 7 March 1939 in Horsham, Victoria.{{cite news|url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:%22handbook/allmps/JG4%22|title=Biography for LAMB, Antony Hamilton, OAM|publisher=Parliament of Australia|accessdate=23 February 2023}} He was one of three children born to Marie Christine ({{nee|Schultz}}) and George Hamilton Lamb, his father being a Country Party member of the parliament of Victoria. His mother died in 1941 following a long illness,{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8175383 |title=Obituary MRS. HAMILTON LAMB. |newspaper=The Argus |location=Melbourne |date=22 February 1941 |accessdate=27 April 2012 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}} while his father died in 1943 as a Japanese prisoner of war on the Burma Railway.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42430812 |title=SOLDIER M.L.A. DEATH IN THAILAND |newspaper=The Cairns Post |location=Qld. |date=2 September 1944 |accessdate=30 April 2012 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Lamb attended Box Hill High School before taking up a scholarship at Scotch College, Melbourne. He qualified as a pharmacist at the Victorian College of Pharmacy in 1959, where he was a member of the Young Labor Association and active in the New Theatre. He later completed the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the University of Melbourne in 1971 and a diploma in education at Monash University in 1979.{{cite news|url=https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/176430/2006-winter.pdf|title=Alumni profile: Tony Lamb|work=Alchemy|publisher=Victorian College of Pharmacy|issue=10|year=2006|page=20}}

Lamb completed an apprenticeship with Eric Scott, the president of The Pharmacy Guild of Australia. He later worked for periods in South Croydon and Camberwell before becoming manager of a pharmacy at the Northland Shopping Centre in Preston.

In 1972, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for La Trobe. As a backbench member in 1973, Lamb and David McKenzie introduced the Medical Practice Clarification Bill which, if passed, would have allowed abortion in the Australian Capital Territory. The bill was defeated after a conscience vote on 10 May 1973 by 98 votes to 23.Ainsley Symons (2014), "Anti-Abortion Campaigning and the Political Process," in Recorder (Melbourne Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History), No. 279, March, p.2

Lamb held the seat of LaTrobe until his defeat in 1975. In 1984 he returned to the House as the member for the new seat of Streeton, which he held until its abolition in 1990. Lamb then contested the seat of Deakin, but was unsuccessful.{{cite web|last=Carr|first=Adam|title=Australian Election Archive|work=Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia|year=2008|accessdate=2008-06-20}}

In the Australia Day Honors, 2006, Lamb received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to pharmacy, to the Australian Parliament and to the community.{{cite web|title=Alumni and Friends|url=http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/ausday06.html|website=The University of Melbourne|publisher=University Advancement Office, University of Melbourne|accessdate=15 November 2015}}

In 2009, Lamb published his thesis in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy: {{cite thesis |type=Ph.D. |last=Lamb |first=Antony H. |date=2009 |title=Of measures and men: the Victorian Country Party, 1917 to 1945 |publisher=Swinburne University of Technology}} {{cite web|title=Of measures and men: the Victorian Country Party, 1917 to 1945|url=http://researchbank.swinburne.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/swin:16075?expert=tm_creator%3A%22Lamb%2CAntony%22|website=Swinburne Research Bank|publisher=Swinburne University of Technology|accessdate=15 November 2015}}

In 2015, Lamb and three other former MPs brought a case before the High Court of Australia, purporting that reductions to their retirement allowances and limitations on the number of "domestic return trips per year" under the Members of Parliament (Life Gold Pass) Act 2002 was unconstitutional under S51(xxxi) of the Constitution of Australia. They lost the case in 2016, with the court finding that Parliament was entitled to vary the terms of allowances.{{cite news | title=Former MPs lose High Court challenge over entitlements | date=12 Oct 2016 | publisher=ABC News | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-12/high-court-rules-on-entitlements-gold-pass/7924916}}

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