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Electoral Results For The Division Of Martin
This is a list of electoral results for the Division of Martin in 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, sma ...n federal elections from the division's creation in 1922 until its abolition in 1955. Members Election results Elections in the 1950s 1954 1951 Elections in the 1940s 1949 1946 1943 1940 Elections in the 1930s 1937 1934 1931 Elections in the 1920s 1929 1928 1925 1922 References * Australian Electoral CommissionFederal election results* Carr, AdamPsephos {{DE ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division Of Martin
The Division of Martin was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was located in the inner western suburbs of Sydney, and initially included the suburbs of Concord and Mortlake, although by the time it was abolished in 1955, it had moved to cover Abbotsford, Balmain and Drummoyne. The Division was named after Hon Sir James Martin, a former Premier of New South Wales. It was proclaimed at the redistribution of 13 September 1922, and was first contested at the 1922 Federal election. It was abolished at the redistribution of 30 August 1955. The seat was at one stage held by William Holman, a former Premier of New South Wales. Members Election results {{DEFAULTSORT:Division Of Martin Martin Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Thornton
Ernest Thornton (13 March 1907 – 29 June 1969) was a British-born Australian trade union leader. Biography Thornton was born in Huddersfield in Yorkshire to tram driver Lewis Thornton and Selina, ''née'' Kerry. Selina left Lewis when Ernie was two, and after taking factory and building jobs Thornton was brought to Sydney by the Dreadnought Trust in 1924 and sent to the Government Training Farm at Scheyville. He was subsequently a construction worker and became a militant unionist. The Great Depression left him unemployed, and this led him to join the Communist Party of Australia (CPA). On 9 August 1934 he married Alice Mary "Lila" Felstead, ''née'' Curtis, who was divorced with two sons, at Collins Street in Melbourne. Thornton was elected as an organiser in the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia (FIA) in 1935. By 1936 he was part-time general secretary, and also a member of the CPA's central committee. Following the recovery of the economy in the late 1930 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCallum (Australian Politician)
John Archibald McCallum (31 July 1892 – 30 December 1973) was an Australian school teacher and politician, Senator for New South Wales. McCallum was born in Mittagong, New South Wales, the son of Welsh-born Catherine Margaret, née Protheroe (1857–?) and her husband Scottish coach builder Archibald Duncan McCallum (1857–1939). He was educated at Sydney High School and Sydney Teachers College, teaching at Parramatta High School before enlisting in the Australian Imperial Force in September 1915, serving in Egypt, France and Belgium. He was injured in the Battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917. He was wounded in the right leg and was subsequently discharged. Upon his return he studied history at the University of Sydney under George Arnold Wood, where he attained first class honours and the university medal in 1921. He returned to teaching history and economics, a member of the Teachers' Federation and was active in the Workers' Educational Association, contri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Carruthers (politician)
George Simpson Carruthers (1 February 1879 – 29 June 1949) was an Australian politician. Born in Lancaster, England, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1934 as an Independent member for Denison. He held the seat until 1937, when he was defeated. Carruthers died in 1949 at Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small .... References 1879 births 1949 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly People from Lancaster, Lancashire English emigrants to Australia {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stan Taylor (barrister)
Stanley Cassin Taylor (7 December 1896 – 9 August 1982) was an Australian barrister and judge. Taylor served as the President of Industrial Commission of New South Wales between 1942 and 1966. Background and early career He was born at Rylstone to farmer John Orchard Taylor and Helen Russell, ''née'' Clarke. He attended Burwood Superior Public School before becoming a junior clerk with the State Department of the Attorney-General and of Justice in November 1912. He joined the Australian Labor Party at the age of seventeen and was active in the anti-conscription campaigns of 1916–17. He ran unsuccessfully for Ryde at the 1925 state election, but was expelled from 1927 to 1930. On his readmittance he was part of the Lang Labor faction, running for North Sydney as a Lang Labor candidate at the 1934 federal election. He was called to the Bar on 25 May 1934. He ran for the reunited Labor Party as the candidate for Martin in 1937. Career Taylor married shorthand write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Australian Federal Election
The 1937 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 23 October 1937. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent UAP–Country coalition government, led by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, defeated the opposition Labor Party under John Curtin. The election is notable in that the Country Party achieved its highest-ever primary vote in the lower house, thereby winning nearly a quarter of all lower-house seats. At the 1934 election nine seats in New South Wales had been won by Lang Labor. Following the reunion of the two Labor parties in February 1936, these were held by their members as ALP seats at the 1937 election. With the party's wins in Ballaarat and Gwydir (initially at a by-election on 8 March 1937), the ALP had a net gain of 11 seats compared with the previous election. This was the first federal election that future Prime Ministers Harold Holt and Arthur Fadden contested as members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert Lockwood
Rupert Ernest Lockwood (10 March 1908 – 8 March 1997) was an Australian journalist and communist activist. Lockwood was born in Natimuk to newspaper proprietor Alfred Wright Lockwood and Alice Francis. He became a journalist in 1930, working for the Melbourne ''Herald'' until 1935, when he went overseas. He worked in Singapore, Japan, China and the United Kingdom before observing the rise of fascism in Germany, Italy and Spain. He returned to Australia in 1938 and joined the Communist Party of Australia (CPA member, 1939 - 1969),Cahill, R. (2013Rupert Lockwood (1908-1997): Journalist, Communist, Intellectual Ph.D thesis, University of Wollongong. Retrieved 22 September 2018. on the day Australia declared war. After finding work in the minor labour press he became associate editor and then editor of the Waterside Workers' Federation's ''Maritime Worker''. He played a significant part in the Royal_Commission_on_Espionage (1954–55), in which the government alleged that he was a Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1940 Australian Federal Election
The 1940 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 21 September 1940. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Coalition, consisting of the United Australia Party led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies and the Country Party led by Archie Cameron, defeated the opposition Labor Party under John Curtin despite losing the overall popular vote. The Coalition won 36 seats, two short of a majority, but formed a government on 28 October 1940 with the support of both independent crossbenchers, Alexander Wilson and Arthur Coles. The four MPs elected to Lang Labor's successor, the Australian Labor Party (Non-Communist), officially re-joined the ALP just months after the election in February 1941, bringing the ALP to 36 seats. The UAP–Country minority government lasted only until October 1941, when the two independents crossed the floor and allowed the ALP to form a minority government with Curtin as pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Glencross
Eleanor Glencross (11 November 1876 – 2 May 1950) was an Australian feminist and housewives' advocate. Glencross was born Eleanor Cameron in Sydney to unionist and politician Angus Cameron and Eleanor, ''née'' Lyons. She attended Cleveland Street Public School and Mis Somerville's Ladies' College and worked for the Liberal and Reform Association. She became general secretary and organiser of the Australian Women's National League in 1911 before returning to Sydney in 1913 to work for the Liberal Association of New South Wales. On 14 March 1917 she married Andrew William Glencross at St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, moving to Stawell later that year and vigorously supporting the pro-conscription campaign. Glencross was appointed honorary director of the prohibitionist Strength of Empire Movement in 1918, and worked for various temperance organisations. She became president of the Housewives' Association of Victoria in 1920 and president of the Federated Housewives' Associa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (Australian Politician)
John Robert Lee (19 October 1885 – 2 November 1957) was an Australian politician. Life, education and career Born at Hedley Hill, Lanchester, Durham, to coalminer James Lee and Jessie Watson, he was educated at public schools in Leadgate and Durham before attending Cliff College in Sheffield. He worked as a water works engineer for ten years and became a Methodist minister before coming to Australia in 1910, preaching at Yanco and Gilgandra. From 1915 to 1918 he served as a lieutenant with the 21st Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force. On 28 February 1920 he married Gladys Irene Dickinson. In 1920 Lee was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Nationalist member for Botany; following the abolition of proportional representation in 1927 he was elected for Drummoyne. He was Nationalist Whip from 1922 to 1927 and Minister for Justice from 1927 to 1930; in 1931 he joined the United Australia Party. From 1934 to 1937 he was also an alderman at Dru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Sloss
Albert Ross Sloss (15 February 1911 – 26 April 1990) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1973, representing the seat of King. Sloss was born in Sydney to William Sloss, a Scottish migrant, and his wife Catherine O'Neill. He was educated at St Joseph's Sisters of Mercy School and Plunkett Street Public School before being employed by Sydney City Council from 1925 to 1939. In 1927 he joined the Labor Party, and was active in the Municipal and Shires' Employees Union from 1925. On 23 December 1931 he married Catherine Moffat, with whom he had two daughters. In 1939, Sloss was elected to Sydney City Council for Phillip Ward; he would serve until 1941, and again for Macquarie Ward from 1950 to 1953. Sloss was also involved in the various Labor splits of the 1930s and 1940s, being a member of the State Labor Party. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the 2nd Australian Imperial Force and was a gunner during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McCall (Australian Politician)
William Victor "Big Bill" McCall (24 May 1908 – 19 August 1968) was an Australian politician and businessman. He was a member of the United Australia Party (UAP) and held the seat of Martin in the House of Representatives from 1934 to 1943. Early life McCall was born on 24 May 1908 in Chatswood, New South Wales. He was the second child born to Hilda Mary (née Bowman) and William James McCall; his father was a bank officer. McCall attended Sydney Grammar School, leaving in 1924 following his father's death. He subsequently entered business as a skin-trade and wool-buyer. Politics McCall was persuaded to enter politics by the difficulties businesses experienced during the Great Depression. In 1931, he attempted to gain pre-selection for the federal seat of Martin for the United Australia Party, losing to William Holman. He was selected the following year to contest a by-election for the safe Labor seat of East Sydney, losing to Lang Labor's Eddie Ward by only 173 votes. Fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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