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Electoral District Of Shepparton And Euroa
The Electoral district of Shepparton and Euroa was a Lower House electoral district of the Victorian Parliament The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria that follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and .... The district was intended to be called Goulburn Valley but was changed to Shepparton and Euroa in 1888. Members In 1904, Shepparton and Euroa was abolished and Electoral district of Goulburn Valley created. References * Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1889 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker. There are presently 88 members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original unicameral Legislative Council. The Assembly first met on 21 November 1856, and consisted of sixty members representing thirty-seven multi and single-member electorates. On the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, the Parliament of Victoria continued except that the colony was now called a state. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of Victoria
The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria that follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council. It has a fused executive drawn from members of both chambers. The parliament meets at Parliament House in the state capital Melbourne. The current Parliament was elected on 26 November 2022, sworn in on 20 December 2022 and is the 60th parliament in Victoria. The two Houses of Parliament have 128 members in total, 88 in the Legislative Assembly (lower house) and 40 in the Legislative Council (upper house). Victoria has compulsory voting and uses instant-runoff voting in single-member seats for the Legislative Assembly, and single transferable vote in multi-member seats for the proportionally represented Legislative Council. The council is described as a house of review. Majorities in the Legislative Council a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hall (Victorian Politician)
George Hall may refer to: People The arts * George Hall (actor) (1916–2002), Canadian-American actor * George Hall (musician) (c. 1893 – c. 1989), American bandleader * George Hall (cartoonist) (born 1960), Australian comic book writer and artist * George Lothian Hall (1825–1888), watercolour artist * George Henry Hall (artist) (1825–1913), American still-life and landscape artist Military and politics * George Hall (Australian politician) (1811–1867), South Australian MLC and businessman * George Hall (British administrator), private secretary in South Australia then governor of Parkhurst Prison * George Hall (New York politician) (1770–1840), US congressman * George Hall, 1st Viscount Hall (1881–1965), First Lord of the Admiralty of the UK * George Barker Hall (1819–1858), lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West * George Benson Hall (1780–1821), naval officer and Upper Canada politician * George J. Hall (1921–1946), American soldier and Medal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Grattan (Australian Politician)
William J. Grattan (May 20, 1876 – December 6, 1938) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Life He was born in West Troy, Albany County, New York. The family moved to Cohoes in 1887. He attended St. Augustine's Academy in Lansingburgh, St. Bernard's Academy in Cohoes, and the Albany Business College. Then he studied law with Myer Nussbaum, and at Albany Law School. He graduated in 1898, was admitted to the bar the same year, and practiced law in Albany. He was a page of the New York State Assembly in 1892 and 1893; Assistant Librarian of the Assembly in 1894; Assistant Postmaster of the Assembly in 1895; and Private Secretary to State Senator Myer Nussbaum from 1896 to 1898. Grattan was a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co., 4th D.) in 1903, 1904, 1905 and 1906. He was a member of the New York State Senate (28th D.) from 1907 to 1910, sitting in the 130th, 131st, 132nd and 133rd New York State Legislatures. Later, he was Clerk of Albany C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Tilley Brown
Joseph Tilley Brown (7 February 1844 – 28 September 1925) was an English-born Australian politician. Early life Brown was born at St. John's, Surrey, England, to marine captain Joseph Brown and Amelia, née Tilley. The family migrated to Victoria, Australia when young Joseph was seven. He was educated at Geelong Church of England Grammar School before becoming a clerk, eventually joining the Bank of New South Wales. At Rochester, where he was the bank's first manager, he married Mary Ann Seward on 6 January 1874. Local politics Brown resigned from the bank due to a subordinate's irregularities and became a stock and commission agent. In 1878 he was charged with "boss-cockie dummying"; he subsequently admitted that he helped those in his family and circle of friends to exploit the 1869 Land Act. He continued to be active in the area as president of the Rochester Farmers' Union (1879) and the Agricultural Society of Echuca (1881–82), as well as an Echuca Shire council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Goulburn Valley
The Electoral district of Goulburn Valley was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The district was replaced by the district of Goulburn in 1945. Members for Goulburn Valley :George Graham represented Numurkah and Nathalia 1889–1904. :John Mitchell was a farmer and builder who was an MLA from the 1914 Victorian State election until the 1920 Victorian State election. Election results See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly {{{Use dmy dates, date=June 2015 {{Use Australian English, date=June 2015 The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856–1859 * Members of the Victorian Legislative ... References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1904 establishments in Australia 1945 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Electoral Districts Of Victoria (state)
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being using in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1889 Establishments In Australia
Events January–March * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas. * January 4 – An Act to Regulate Appointments in the Marine Hospital Service of the United States is signed by President Grover Cleveland. It establishes a Commissioned Corps of officers, as a predecessor to the modern-day U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. * January 5 – Preston North End F.C. is declared the winner of the inaugural Football League in England. * January 8 – Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States. * January 15 – The Coca-Cola Company is originally incorporated as the Pemberton Medicine Company in Atlanta, Georgia. * January 22 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C. * January 30 – Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and his mist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
