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David Arnott (politician)
David Levis Edmund Andrea Arnott (15 January 1899 – 18 September 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Portland to farmer John Arnott and Theresa Valentine Pedrazzi. He attended state schools and became a farmer at Tyrendarra. On 21 May 1924 he married Amy Stanford, with whom he had four children. He was president and secretary of the local Pastoral A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts ... and Agricultural Society and a member of the Victorian Dairyfarmers Association. In 1952 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Labor Party member for Western Province. He served until his defeat in 1958, and he died at Tyrendarra two years later. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Arnott, David 1899 births 1960 deaths 20th-century Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Victoria
Portland is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing from a population of 9,712 taken at the 2016 census. History Early history The Gunditjmara, an Aboriginal Australian people, are the traditional owners of much of south-west Victoria, including what is now Portland, having lived there for thousands of years. They are today renowned for their early aquaculture development at nearby Lake Condah. Physical remains such as the weirs and fish traps are to be found in the Budj Bim heritage areas. The Gunditjmara were a settled people, living in small circular weather-proof stone huts about high, grouped as villages, often around eel traps and aquaculture ponds. On just one hectare of Allambie Farm, archaeologists have discovered the remains of 160 house sites. 19th century European settlement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrendarra
Tyrendarra () is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is split between the Shire of Glenelg and the Shire of Moyne local government areas, with most being in the former. It is on the Princes Highway, south west of the state capital, Melbourne. The Tyrendarra township lies within a bend of Darlot Creek, before it enters the Fitzroy River—which also flows through the locality. At the , Tyrendarra and the surrounding area had a population of 198. The area was settled in the 1870s and a Post Office opened around February 1879 and closed in 2000. Tyrendarra is well known for the Tyrendarra Pastoral and Agricultural show held each year at the Tyrendarra sports reserve. The Tyrendarra Rodeo has, since 2017, been replaced with the Tyrendarra Beer Fest. The town has an Australian rules football team playing in the South West District Football League. Unusually for Australian towns, Tyrendarra has no hotel. The town does, however, contain two churches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyrendarra, Victoria
Tyrendarra () is a locality in south west Victoria, Australia. The locality is split between the Shire of Glenelg and the Shire of Moyne local government areas, with most being in the former. It is on the Princes Highway, south west of the state capital, Melbourne. The Tyrendarra township lies within a bend of Darlot Creek, before it enters the Fitzroy River—which also flows through the locality. At the , Tyrendarra and the surrounding area had a population of 198. The area was settled in the 1870s and a Post Office opened around February 1879 and closed in 2000. Tyrendarra is well known for the Tyrendarra Pastoral and Agricultural show held each year at the Tyrendarra sports reserve. The Tyrendarra Rodeo has, since 2017, been replaced with the Tyrendarra Beer Fest. The town has an Australian rules football team playing in the South West District Football League. Unusually for Australian towns, Tyrendarra has no hotel. The town does, however, contain two churches. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastoral
A pastoral lifestyle is that of shepherds herding livestock around open areas of land according to seasons and the changing availability of water and pasture. It lends its name to a genre of literature, art, and music (pastorale) that depicts such life in an idealized manner, typically for urban audiences. A ''pastoral'' is a work of this genre, also known as bucolic, from the Greek , from , meaning a cowherd. Literature Pastoral literature in general Pastoral is a mode of literature in which the author employs various techniques to place the complex life into a simple one. Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature. Thus, pastoral as a mode occurs in many types of literature (poetry, drama, etc.) as well as genres (most notably the pastoral elegy). Terry Gifford, a prominent literary theorist, define ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although, it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for elections for the Legislative Council have above and below the line voting. Voting above the line requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), commonly known as Victorian Labor, is the semi-autonomous Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The Victorian branch comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing comprising all elected party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus (and party factions) and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliamentary members. By convention, the premier sits in the Legislative Assembly, and is the leader of the party controlling a majority in that house. The party leader also typically is a member of the Assembly, though this is not a strict party constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Province (Victoria)
Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria. Victoria was a colony in Australia when Western Province was created. From Federation in 1901, Victoria was a state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Western Province was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856. Western Province was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act, 1855, as : "Including the Counties of Ripon, Hampden, Heytesbury, Villiers, Normanby, Dundas, and Follett." In 1882, several new Provinces were created, including Nelson Province and Wellington Province, the numbers of members elected for Western Province was reduced to three from this time. Another redistribution in 1904 reduced the number of members to two. In 2006, the Western Province (along with all the other provinces in the Legislative Council) was abolished and replaced by regions. All of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Chisholm Rankin
Robert Chisholm Rankin (18 September 1896 – 28 May 1955) was an Australian politician. Born in Malvern to Indian-born bootmaker William Rankin and Elizabeth Chisholm, he served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, attaining the rank of captain. He married Ethel Josephine Bennetts around 1918. Returning from the war, he farmed at Harrow and then at Horsham; he was a life member of the Returned and Services League. In 1940 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Province, representing the Country Party. He left the Country Party in 1947 and in 1948 joined the Liberal Party. He was defeated in 1952. Rankin died in Toorak Toorak may refer to: * Toorak, Victoria, an inner south-eastern suburb of Melbourne *Toorak College, Mount Eliza, approximately 40 km south of Melbourne * Toorak Gardens, South Australia, an inner eastern suburb of Adelaide initially named Toorak * ... in 1955. References 1896 births 1955 deaths National P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Vernon MacLeod
Hugh Vernon MacLeod (23 January 1882 – 24 September 1955) was an Australian politician. He was born at Busselton to grazier Donald Norman McLeod and Charlotte Harriett Bussel. Both his father and his grandfather Norman McLeod served in the Victorian Parliament. MacLeod (spelled thus) managed cattle stations in Queensland before returning to Victoria, where he managed the family property. During World War I he served with the 13th Light Horse in Gallipoli and the Middle East. On 3 December 1919 he married theatre actress Wilhelmina Laura Elsie Landquest, who was known by her stage name Elsie Langley. MacLeod inherited a Western Australian property at Minilya but sold it in 1920, instead running his grandfather's dairy farm and cattle stud at Tyrendarra. In 1946 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as an independent member for Western Province. He joined the Liberal and Country Party in 1949, and was a supporter of Thomas Hollway. He voted to refuse su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronald Mack
Sir Ronald William Mack (20 May 1904 – 12 February 1968) was an Australian politician. He was born at Warrnambool to wool buyer Frederick David Mack and Elizabeth Edith Hatton. He attended Warrnambool High School and qualified as an accountant in 1927. From 1930 he ran his own accountancy firm. On 20 February 1935, he married Helen Isobel Janet Lindsay; they had one son. He later remarried fellow accountant Winifred Helen Crutchfield on 20 September 1958. From 1939 to 1940 he was a member of Warrnambool City Council. He served in World War II and was twice mentioned in dispatches; he lost his right eye at El Alamein. From 1944 he was again an accountant, and he became involved in the Liberal and Country Party. He served one term in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Warrnambool. In 1955 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a member for Western Province. He served as Minister of Health from 1961 to 1965, when he was elected President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Gross
Kenneth Samuel Gross (4 November 1924 – 2 October 1989) was an Australian politician. He was born in Horsham to farmer Samuel Gross and Paulina Helena Stoessel. He attended state schools locally and became a farmer near Horsham in 1942. On 19 April 1952 he married Heather Brenton, with whom he had three children. A long-time member of the Liberal and Country Party The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as ..., he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1958 for Western Province. He served in the council until his retirement in 1976. Gross died in 1989. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gross, Kenneth 1924 births 1989 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council 20th-century Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
