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Electoral District Of Mandurang
The Electoral district of Mandurang was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Australia), based in north central Victoria around, but not including, the town of Bendigo Bendigo ( ) is a city in Victoria, Australia, located in the Bendigo Valley near the geographical centre of the state and approximately north-west of Melbourne, the state capital. As of 2019, Bendigo had an urban population of 100,991, makin ... (then known as Sandhurst). The district was defined as: The district of Mandurang was created in the expansion of the Legislative Assembly in 1859 and abolished in the redistribution of 1904. Initially two members were returned, an additional member was added from 1877. After the 1889 electoral re-distribution where Sandhurst South and 40 other districts were created by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888, Mandurang reverted to one member. Members See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the V ... [...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] |
John Fisher (Australian Politician)
John Fisher (c. 19 October 1469 – 22 June 1535) was an English Catholic The Catholic Church in England and Wales ( la, Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; cy, Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See. Its origins date from the 6th ce ... Bishop (Catholicism), bishop, Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal, and theologian. Fisher was also an academic and Chancellor (education), Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He was canonized by Pope Pius XI. Fisher was executed by order of Henry VIII during the English Reformation for refusing to accept him as the supreme head of the Church of England and for upholding the Catholic Church's doctrine of papal supremacy. He was named a Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal shortly before his death. He is honoured as a martyr and saint by the Catholic Church. He shares his feast day with Thomas More on 22 June in the Catholic calendar of saints and o ... [...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] |
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 Assembly, 1859–1861 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1861–1864 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1864–1865 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1866–1867 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1868–1871 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1871–1874 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1874–1877 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1877–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1880–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1880–1883 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1883–1886 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1886–1889 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliaments Of The Australian States And Territories
The Parliaments of the Australian states and territories are legislative bodies within the federal framework of the Commonwealth of Australia. All the parliaments are based on the Westminster system, and each is regulated by its own constitution. Queensland and the two territories have unicameral parliaments, with the single house being called Legislative Assembly. The other states have a bicameral parliament, with a lower house called the Legislative Assembly (New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia) or House of Assembly (South Australia and Tasmania), and an upper house called the Legislative Council. Unlike the Parliament of Australia Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia which prevents persons with dual citizenship to be in Parliament, In state Parliaments they have no laws preventing dual citizenship. Background Before the formation of the Commonwealth in 1901, the six Australian colonies were self-governing colonies, with parliaments which had come into e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Telford Webb
William Telford Webb (1842-1911) was an Australian farmer and politician. Born in Tullamore, he arrived to Melbourne, Australia on 28 January 1859 on the Black Eagle. In 1863, he went to the Dunstan goldfields in New Zealand but returned to Australia shortly after due an extreme snowstorm that affected the area. Career and politics He first entered politics when he was elected as the farming representative in the Shire of Rochester from 1873 to 1892. He also served as the shire's president from 1877 to 1879. He ran as a candidate in the 1883 election for Electoral district of Rodney in the Legislative Assembly but was unsuccessful. He sought election again in the 1889 election and went on to become the member for Rodney alongside James Shackell, Timothy Murphy, and Andrew White. He held the seat up until 1 September 1897 and during that time, served as the Commissioner of Public Works, Minister of Agriculture, and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Hirsch (economist)
Maximilian Hirsch (21 September 1852? – 4 March 1909) was a German-born businessman and economist who settled in Melbourne, Australia, where he became the recognized intellectual leader of the Australian Georgist movement and, briefly, a member of the Victorian Parliament.__NOTOC__ Early life Hirsch was born in Cologne in the German state of Prussia on 21 September, the year being either 1852, as stated in newspaper reports of his death, or 1853, as stated in the biography prepared by his memorial committee. His father was a writer on economic subjects, and a member of the Reichstag who ran into trouble with the German authorities due to his democratic principles. Young Hirsch was educated at a high school and also did some work at the University of Berlin, but aged 19 began a career as a commercial traveller. Before he was 20 he was sent to Persia to buy carpets and obtained many fine old specimens. These were brought to London via Russia. Hirsch spent some time in Italy stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard O'Neill (politician)
Richard O'Neill (1847 – 20 October 1908) was an Australian politician. Born in Tipperary, Ireland, his family moved to America in 1849 and to Victoria in 1853, arriving in Melbourne before moving to the Ballarat gold mines. His father established a farm at Glenlyon, where the young Richard worked until 1874, when he moved to Daylesford. He married Mary Egan, with whom he had five children. He was an auctioneer at Bendigo in 1882 and at Kyneton in 1902. Active in local government, he was a Glenlyon Shire Councillor in 1876, a Daylesford Shire Councillor in 1878 and a Bendigo Councillor from 1887 to 1892. From 1893 to 1902 he was the member for Mandurang in the 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 .... O'Neill died in Melbourne in 190 ... [...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 counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James McColl (politician)
James Hiers McColl (31 January 184420 February 1929) was an Australian politician. Prior to Federation in 1901, he was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (1886–1900) and twice held ministerial office. He was known for his interest in agriculture, particularly new irrigation techniques. In the new federal parliament he first represented the Division of Echuca (1901–1906) in the House of Representatives and then served as a Senator for Victoria (1907–1914). He was Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Cook Government (1913–1914). Early life McColl was born in South Shields, County Durham, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before they landed in Melbourne. McColl was educated at the Model School, Sandhurst and for a time at Scotch College, Melbourne. He married Emily Boyle in January 1867 and subsequently became an insurance agent and legal manager. Colonial politics McColl supported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Yeo (Victorian Politician)
Charles Yeo Yao Hui () is a Singaporean lawyer and former politician who served as the chairman of the opposition Reform Party between 2020 and 2022. Education Yeo attended Bukit View Primary School, Victoria School and Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) before graduating from the University of Warwick, where he read law. Career Politics Yeo became a member of the Reform Party (RP) since 2011. Since June 2019, Yeo has been on the central executive committee of Reform Party (RP). On 5 August 2020, he was appointed to be chairman of RP. 2020 General Election Yeo was part of the five-member Reform Party team which contested the Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency during the 2020 Singaporean general election, running against the People's Action Party team which led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and his team was defeated, with 28.09 percent of the votes. =Constituency broadcast and Internet meme= Yeo reached national prominence following the Reform Party's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Moore Highett
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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