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Billy Davies (politician)
William Davies (1884 – 17 February 1956) was an Australian politician, born in Abertillery in Wales to the coalminer William Davies and his wife Mary, née Williams. As a child he worked in the coalmines, but won a miners' scholarship to a summer school at the University of Oxford, where he became a Methodist lay preacher. He married Edith Hartshorn on 4 August 1903 and the couple moved to New South Wales in 1912, when Davies became a miner in the Wollongong area, soon rising to become an official of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation. Davies won the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wollongong in 1917, representing the Labor Party, having defeated the sitting John Nicholson who had been elected as a Labor member but joined the Nationalist Party following the 1916 conscription split. His 1920 election campaign concentrated on the 1917 strike, John Brown's contract compensation, business profiteering and the wheat pool scandal. He went on to domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Cunningham
The Division of Cunningham is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales. History The division was created in 1949 and is named for Allan Cunningham, a 19th-century explorer of New South Wales and Queensland. The division has always been represented by the Australian Labor Party, except following the 2002 by-election when the Greens won the seat; being the first time that the Greens held a seat in the House of Representatives. Labor recovered the seat at the 2004 federal election. Its most prominent members have been Rex Connor, a senior minister in the Whitlam government, and Stephen Martin, who was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993–1996, during the last term of the Keating government. The sitting member, since the 2022 federal election, is Alison Byrnes, a member of the Australian Labor Party. Boundaries Since 1984, federal electoral division boundaries in Australia have been determined at redistributions by a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kiama Independent And Shoalhaven Advertiser
''The Kiama Independent and Illawarra and Shoalhaven Advertiser'', also published originally as ''Kiama Examiner'', then as ''The Examiner (Kiama, New South Wales)'', was a weekly English language newspaper published in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia. It was also published as ''The Kiama Independent and Shoalhaven Advertiser'' and since 1947 as ''Kiama Independent''. History ''The Kiama Independent and Illawarra and Shoalhaven Advertiser'' was published in 1863. Its original title was ''Kiama Examiner'', which was published from 24 April 1858 to 10 December 1859. It was succeeded by ''The Examiner'' which was published from 17 December 1859 to 30 December 1862. Then ''The Kiama Independent and Illawarra and Shoalhaven Advertiser'' was published from 7 July to 6 October 1863. Following this, the newspaper was named ''The Kiama Independent and Shoalhaven Advertiser'' and was published from 13 October 1863 to 2 April 1947. In 1947 it merged with ''Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Illawarra
Illawarra was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was located in the Illawarra area and originally created in 1859, replacing East Camden. It was replaced by Wollongong in 1904 and recreated in 1927. In 1968, it was abolished and partly replaced by Kembla. In 1971, Kembla was abolished and Illawarra was recreated. In 2007, it was abolished and replaced by Shellharbour Shellharbour (also known as Shellharbour Village) is a suburb located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. It also gives its name to the local government area, City of Shellharbour, and its central business district, Shellhar .... Members for Illawarra Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales 1859 establishments in Australia Constituencies established in 1859 1904 disestablishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 1904 1927 establishments in Australia Constituencies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Lysaght, Junior
Andrew Augustus Lysaght (8 August 1873 – 3 May 1933) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1925 until 1933, representing the electorate of Bulli. He served as Attorney-General of New South Wales under Jack Lang in 1927 and 1930-31. Lysaght was born at Mount Ousley near Wollongong, the son of politician Andrew Lysaght, senior. He was educated in Wollongong before attending Newington College (1888–1890) and the University of Sydney. He undertook articles in 1891, and was admitted as a solicitor in 1896. He established a reputation as a leading industrial lawyer, practicing in both Sydney and Wollongong. He was elected to the North Illawarra Municipal Council from 1900 to 1902, serving as mayor in 1902. It was at this time that his most prominent moment as a lawyer occurred, representing the miners before the Royal Commission into the Mount Kembla mining disaster. He continued to hold a successful legal ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Morton (politician)
Mark Fairles Morton (28 September 1865 – 28 September 1938) was an Australian politician. He was born near Nowra to surveyor Henry Gordon Morton and Jane, ''née'' Fairlies. He attended Numbaa Public School and Hurstville College in Goulburn before working on the bridge over the Shoalhaven River at Nowra. He subsequently worked as a stock agent before settling in Nowra as an auctioneer. He served on Nowra Council from 1896, with a period as mayor in 1901. From 1906 to 1916 he was a member of the Aborigines Protection Board. On 6 March 1907, he married Minnie Fuller, with whom he had a son; on 23 April 1919 he married Sarah Emily Fuller. From a political family, his brothers Philip and Henry and his nephew Pat also served in the New South Wales Parliament, while his brother-in-law George Fuller was Premier. In 1901, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Shoalhaven. Shoalhaven was renamed Allowrie in 1904. By the time propo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cleary (New South Wales Politician)
John Joseph Cleary (29 April 1883 – 2 October 1962) was an Australian politician. He was born at Pitt Town, New South Wales, Pitt Town to farmer Thomas Cleary and Mary Ann, ''née'' Mackey, who were both Irish-born. He received a primary education but by the age of fourteen was working as a goldminer at Wyalong, New South Wales, Wyalong, then as a smelter with Duncanand Moyes, before returning to mining at Junee, New South Wales, Junee. After a two-year stint farming near Warra, Queensland, Warra in Queensland, he settled in Forbes, New South Wales, Forbes, where he was assistant town clerk (1908–15), an alderman (1912–15), and town clerk (1915–26). On 3 January 1906 he had married Alice Mary Brown, with whom he had nine children. In 1920 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor member for Electoral district of Wollondilly, Wollondilly, but he was defeated in 1922. From 1923 to 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Fuller (Australian Politician)
Sir George Warburton Fuller (22 January 1861 – 22 July 1940) was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1922 to 1925 and for one day in December 1921. He previously served in the federal House of Representatives from 1901 to 1913, representing the Division of Illawarra, and was Minister for Home Affairs under Alfred Deakin from 1909 to 1910. Early life Fuller was born in Kiama, New South Wales and was educated at Kiama Public School, Sydney Grammar School and at St Andrew's College at the University of Sydney. He received a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in 1879, and a Master of Arts in 1882 from the University of Sydney. He studied law under Sir William Patrick Manning (eminent judge and university chancellor) and became a barrister in 1884. Colonial politics Fuller served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for over 18 years. Initially he represented Kiama from 1889 to 1894, but was defeated in 1894 and again in 1898 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Wollondilly
Wollondilly is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Nathaniel Smith of the Liberal Party. History Wollondilly was first established in 1904, partly replacing Bowral. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it absorbed Wollongong and Allowrie and elected three members simultaneously. In 1927, it was split into the single-member electorates of Wollondilly, Wollongong and Illawarra. It was abolished in 1981, but was recreated for the 2007 election, partly replacing Southern Highlands. Wollondilly is one of four electorates in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly to have been held by two Premiers of New South Wales while in office. Both Premiers Tom Lewis and George Fuller held Wollondilly while in office, the other three electorates being Ku-ring-gai, Maroubra and Willoughby. Wollondilly was recreated for the 2007 state election, covering areas previously belonging ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Education (New South Wales)
The New South Wales Minister for Education and Early Learning is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities that includes all schools and institutes of higher education in New South Wales, Australia. The current Minister for Education and Early Learning is Sarah Mitchell, since 30 January 2017. The minister is supported by the Minister for Skills and Training, presently Alister Henskens, since 21 December 2021. Together, the ministers administer the portfolio through the Education cluster, in particular the Department of Education, TAFE NSW, and a range of other government agencies. Ultimately, the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales. Office history The role of administering the education system in New South Wales began with the passing by the New South Wales Legislative Council of the ''National Education Board Act 1848'', which emulated the 'National' system of education established in Ireland by Lord Stanley in 1831 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Drummond (politician)
David Henry Drummond (11 February 1890–13 June 1965) was an Australian politician and farmer. He was a member of the Country Party and served in both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1920–1949) and the Australian House of Representatives (1949–1963). Early life Drummond was born in Lewisham, Sydney and was educated at public schools and at The Scots College, but was forced by financial problems to seek work. In 1902, he became a ward of the state. He moved to Armidale in 1907 as a farm-hand and in 1913 he married Pearl Hilda Victoria Goode, daughter of a grazier in Uralla. State politics Drummond was elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920, representing Northern Tablelands for the Progressive Party, which in due course became the Country Party; and from 1927 to 1949 he was the member for Armidale. He was a foundation member of the New England New State Movement. He was Minister for Education from 1927 to 1930 and 1932 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mutch
Thomas Davies Mutch (17 October 1885 – 4 June 1958) was an Australian politician. Early life Born in London to busdriver William Murdoch Mutch and Sarah Davies, he arrived in New South Wales in 1887 and was educated at Double Bay Public School. He was subsequently a shearer for four years and joined the Australian Workers' Union, becoming a staff worker in 1903 and helping to found the Australian Writers and Artists Union in 1910. On 23 September 1912 he married Edith Marjorie Hasenham; he remarried on 26 March 1928 Dorothy Anette Joyce at Melbourne, with whom he had two children. From 1915 to 1916 he was New South Wales president and federal vice-president of the Australian Journalists' Association, and was convicted of incitement after the 1917 general strike. Politics He was an alderman at Mascot from 1923 to 1930 and Randwick from 1931 to 1937. Having been a member of the Australian Labor Party's central executive from 1913 to 1917, he was elected to the New South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Public Instruction (New South Wales)
The New South Wales Minister for Education and Early Learning is a minister in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities that includes all schools and institutes of higher education in New South Wales, Australia. The current Minister for Education and Early Learning is Sarah Mitchell, since 30 January 2017. The minister is supported by the Minister for Skills and Training, presently Alister Henskens, since 21 December 2021. Together, the ministers administer the portfolio through the Education cluster, in particular the Department of Education, TAFE NSW, and a range of other government agencies. Ultimately, the ministers are responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales. Office history The role of administering the education system in New South Wales began with the passing by the New South Wales Legislative Council of the ''National Education Board Act 1848'', which emulated the 'National' system of education established in Ireland by Lord Stanley in 1831 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
