Abe Landa

Abram Landa CMG (10 November 1902 – 7 October 1989) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1930 until 1932 and from 1941 until 1965.

[3] He defeated the sitting Nationalist member Harold Jaques and his victory contributed to Labor forming a government under Jack Lang.

[3] Landa held ministerial positions in the governments of Joseph Cahill, Robert Heffron and Jack Renshaw.

Following the victory of Robert Askin's conservative coalition at the 1965 election, Landa was controversially offered and accepted an appointment as the Agent-General for New South Wales in London.

This position was usually a sinecure for retiring members of the ruling party but Askin offered it to Landa to force his resignation from parliament and cause a by-election with the hope of increasing his government's small majority.