 He resigned on 1 December 1985, and was replaced by anti-drugs and anti-crime campaigner John Newman at the resulting by-election.Newman represented the electorate until 1994, when he became the victim of the only political assassination in Australia in recent history, killed by a Vietnamese crime boss.Reba Meagher was easily elected to replace Newman in the subsequent by-election and was the member for Cabramatta until her resignation in 2008.