Bill Leadbetter | |
Office: | Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for East Metropolitan |
Predecessor: | Amber-Jade Sanderson |
Party: | Labor |
Birth Date: | [1] |
Birth Place: | Sydney, New South Wales |
Occupation: | Historian |
Term Start: | 4 April 2017 |
Term End: | 21 May 2017 |
William Lewis Leadbetter is an Australian politician and historian. He was a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for East Metropolitan from 4 April 2017, when he was elected in a countback following the resignation of Amber-Jade Sanderson.[2], and his term concluded on 21 May 2017, when the new Legislative Council elected at the 2017 state election took its seats. Leadbetter did not seek re-election.
Leadbetter was born in Sydney, and has been a university lecturer in history in Western Australia since 1998. He previously contested the federal seats of Pearce in 2010 and Hasluck in 2016.[3]