Dooley Ministry (1921–22)
Dooley ministry may refer to: * Dooley ministry (1921), the 38th ministry of the New South Wales Government, 10 October 1921–20 December 1921 * Dooley ministry (1921–1922), the 40th ministry of the New South Wales Government, 20 December 1921–13 April 1922 {{Disambiguation ...
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Dooley Ministry (1921)
The Dooley ministry (1921) or the first Dooley ministry was the 38th ministry of the New South Wales Government, and was led by the 21st Premier, James Dooley. It was the first of two occasions that Dooley was Premier. Dooley was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1907, serving until 1927, when he fell out with the Labor leadership, lost Labor preselection, and stood unsuccessfully as an Independent Labor candidate for the Senate in the 1931 federal election. Dooley served as Deputy Labor leader to Ernest Durack and then John Storey, when Labor came to power at the 1920 state election, with what Storey called "half a mandate". The assembly was evenly divided, with Labor having 43 seats and the support of Percy Brookfield () and Arthur Gardiner (Independent Labor), while the Nationalists had 28 seats and the support of 15 seats of Progressive Party and 2 independent Nationalists. The Speaker of the Legislative Assembly did not vote unless there was a ...
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