Norman "Norm" Richard Marlborough (born 12 August 1945) was a Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

n state politician.

Marlborough was born in Yorkshire

Yorkshire

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, England and arrived in Western Australia in 1963. Before he entered parliament he was a fitter and turner and later a union official. He was elected as an Australian Labor Party

Australian Labor Party

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 member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly

Western Australian Legislative Assembly

The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth....

 for the seat of Cockburn

Electoral district of Cockburn

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 at a by-election on 7 June 1986 following the death of Clive Hughes. In 1989 he transferred to the new seat of Peel

Electoral district of Peel

Peel was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1989 to 2008.The district was based in the south-western suburbs of Perth.Peel was at all times a safe Labor seat.-History:...

 after a redistribution.

Marlborough served in a number of Shadow portfolios and then in Government in Parliamentary Secretary roles. On 3 February 2006 he was promoted to the Cabinet

Carpenter Ministry

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 as Minister for Small Business, Minister for the Peel and the South West, and Minister Assisting the Minister for Education and Training.

On 9 November 2006, Marlborough resigned from the ministry and from Parliament following the release of taped phone calls to disgraced former premier Brian Burke

Brian Burke

Brian Thomas Burke was Labor premier of Western Australia from 25 February 1983 until his resignation on 25 February 1988...

in which Burke advised Marlborough as to how to answer a question regarding the appointment to a government commission.

Marlborough is married to Ros Marlborough and has two sons, Patrick and Richard.