death_date constituency_mp ethnicity birth_date birthname term_end alma_mater death_place profession term_start spouse citizenship name predecessor parliament birth_place party office successor religion article_title
24 november 1984 peats polish , irish 29 may 1941 david paul landa 3 march 1984 24 november 1984 university of sydney vaucluse , new south wales , australia lawyer 23 april 1973 24 march 1984 annika -lrb- 1968 -- 1984 -rrb- australian paul landa keith o'connell new south wales st peters , new south wales , australia australian labor party member of the new south wales legislative council tony doyle jewish paul landa

paul landa

david paul landa , qc -lrb- 29 may 194124 november 1984 -rrb- was an australian politician .
in public life , he was called `` paul landa '' .
he was a labor member of the new south wales legislative council from 1973 to 1984 , and the member for peats in the new south wales legislative assembly in 1984 .
he was a government minister from 1976 to 1984 .
landa was born in st peters in sydney to maurice and fay landa , who were of irish/polish descent and had migrated from belfast .
he was educated at kogarah high school and sydney boys ' high school in 1956-58 before studying for a bachelor of laws at the university of sydney .
he became a solicitor in 1964 and was admitted to the bar in 1974 .
on 17 december 1968 , he married annika .
he was jewish .
he was the nephew of abe landa , who was also a nsw government minister .
in 1973 , landa was elected to the new south wales legislative council as a labor member .
he became minister for industrial relations in 1976 , although later that year he became the minister for planning and environment and became vice-president of the executive council .
in that year he also became the government 's leader in the upper house .
he became education minister in 1980 , energy minister in 1981 and attorney general in 1983 .
in 1984 , he transferred to the lower house , winning the seat of peats .
he was generally seen as an outstanding politician who was probably destined for the party leadership , but later that year he died at vaucluse , while playing tennis .
it is believed he suffered a heart attack .
he was 43 .
