Sam Piantadosi

Samuel Piantadosi was an Australian union official and politician. A senior Western Australian union official and the founding chair of the Ethnic Communities Council in the 1980s, he was elected as an Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 1983 state election. His election made him the first post-war Italian migrant to be elected to the Parliament of Western Australia. Mr Piantadosi became a councillor and deputy mayor of the Town of Bassendean, and held the latter role until his death in 2010.