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Frederick Birrell
Frederick William Birrell (27 August 1869 – 20 January 1939) was an Australian typographer and politician. History Birrell was born in North Adelaide, a twin son of Eliza Birrell (née Banks) and Andrew Birrell, labourer, who married in 1865, then deserted his wife soon after Frederick and Albert Ernest Birrell were born. She and her children were helped by (later Sir) Robert Kyffin Thomas, general manager of the ''South Australian Register'', and Frederick later gained employment as a printer with ''The Register'' and in 1892 became a member of the Typographical Society of South Australia. A few years later he started work at the Labor Party newspaper, '' The Herald'', as a linotype operator. He also served as a journalist and member of its board of management. Birrell represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of North Adelaide from 1921 to 1933 for the Labor Party. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly The Speaker of the South Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Birrell
Frederick Ronald Birrell (7 December 1913 – 23 July 1985) was an Australian politician. History Born in Adelaide, South Australia, grandson of Robert Birrell (died 1880) and son of Frederick (c. 1877 – 31 July 1952) and May Birrell (née Moran), he was educated at state schools before becoming an auto worker. He served in the military from 1940 to 1946. From 1959 to 1963 he was the South Australian Secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Union, becoming its federal president 1961–1962. In 1958 he was president of the South Australian Trades and Labor Council. In 1963, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the la ... member for Port Adelaide. He held the seat until his retirement in 1974. Birrell died i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Birrell
Frederick William Birrell (27 August 1869 – 20 January 1939) was an Australian typographer and politician. History Birrell was born in North Adelaide, a twin son of Eliza Birrell (née Banks) and Andrew Birrell, labourer, who married in 1865, then deserted his wife soon after Frederick and Albert Ernest Birrell were born. She and her children were helped by (later Sir) Robert Kyffin Thomas, general manager of the ''South Australian Register'', and Frederick later gained employment as a printer with ''The Register'' and in 1892 became a member of the Typographical Society of South Australia. A few years later he started work at the Labor Party newspaper, '' The Herald'', as a linotype operator. He also served as a journalist and member of its board of management. Birrell represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of North Adelaide from 1921 to 1933 for the Labor Party. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly The Speaker of the South Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Adelaide, South Australia
North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands. History Surveyor-General Colonel William Light of the colony of South Australia completed the survey for the capital city of Adelaide by 10 March 1837. The survey included , including north of the River Torrens. This surveyed land north of the river became North Adelaide. North Adelaide was the birthplace of William Lawrence Bragg, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915. It contains many heritage-listed buildings, including the North Adelaide Post Office. Design North Adelaide consists of three grids of varying dimension to suit the geography. North Adelaide is surrounded by parklands, with public gardens between the grids. The North Adelaide park lands (the Adelaide Park Lands north of the River Torrens) contain gardens, many sports fields (including the Adelaide Oval), a go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kyffin Thomas
Sir Robert Kyffin Thomas (19 August 1851 – 13 June 1910) was a South Australian newspaper proprietor. Sir Robert was born at Nailsworth, South Australia, the son of William Kyffin Thomas, proprietor of the ''South Australian Register''. Thomas's grandfather Robert Thomas printed ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'' in London in 1829, and ''The South Australian Register'', the first South Australian newspaper, in 1839. He also printed the first ''Government Gazette'', but lost that business when he ran foul of Governor Gawler. Thomas was educated at Mr. J. L. Young's' Adelaide Educational Institution, a contemporary of the Right Hon. C. C. Kingston. He took up journalism at the age of 18 and was soon chief reporter. He was admitted as a partner in the firm in 1877, and at the time of his death he was the senior proprietor of ''The Register''. Thomas was a prominent member of the South Australian branch of the Royal Geographical Society, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Register
''The Register'', originally the ''South Australian Gazette and Colonial Register'', and later ''South Australian Register,'' was South Australia's first newspaper. It was first published in London in June 1836, moved to Adelaide in 1837, and folded into '' The Advertiser'' almost a century later in February 1931. The newspaper was the sole primary source for almost all information about the settlement and early history of South Australia. It documented shipping schedules, legal history and court records at a time when official records were not kept. According to the National Library of Australia, its pages contain "one hundred years of births, deaths, marriages, crime, building history, the establishment of towns and businesses, political and social comment". All issues are freely available online, via Trove. History ''The Register'' was conceived by Robert Thomas, a law stationer, who had purchased for his family of land in the proposed South Australian province after be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Herald (Adelaide)
''The Herald'' was a weekly trade union magazine published in Adelaide, South Australia between 1894 and March 1910; for the first four years titled ''The Weekly Herald''. It was succeeded by ''The Daily Herald'', which ran from 7 March 1910 to 16 June 1924. History The 1890s was a period of intense industrial unrest in Australia: squatters and shippers, manufacturers, merchants and miners had all been doing very nicely in the 1880s with exports booming, but little seemed to the shearers, labourers and sailors to be "trickling down" to them. Then around 1885 demand slackened off and with falling prices, the employers felt the need to reduce their labour force, and cut the wages of those who remained. The Maritime Labour Council (MLC) was formed in Adelaide in 1886 and the following year raised a Maritime Strike Fund of £9,600, of which various workers' unions subscribed around half. When the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia needed money to start a workers' new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. In 1895, the House of Assembly granted women the right to vote and stand for election to the legislature. South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt.) From 1857 to 1933, the House of Assembly was elected from multi-member dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of North Adelaide
North Adelaide was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1875 to 1902 and again from 1915 to 1938. North Adelaide was also the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from 1851 until its abolition in 1857, John Bentham Neales being the elected member. The North Adelaide area is currently fairly safe to safe Liberal and is represented in the seat of Adelaide Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem .... Members References {{DEFAULTSORT:North Adelaide Former electoral districts of South Australia 1875 establishments in Australia 1902 disestablishments in Australia 1915 establishments in Australia 1938 disestablishments in Australia North Adelaide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division). Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election. Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. After losing the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Of The South Australian House Of Assembly
The Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly is the presiding officer of the South Australian House of Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of South Australia. The other presiding officer is the President of the South Australian Legislative Council. As of the passage of the ''Constitution (Independent Speaker) Amendment Act 2021'', the Speaker is constitutionally banned from being a member of a registered political party outside of a "relevant election period".Constitution (Independent Speaker) Amendment Act 2021 The current Speaker Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** I ... is independent MP Dan Cregan. List of speakers References Statistical Record of the Legislature 1836 - 2007 External links Speakers of the House of Assembly Parliament of South Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Ronald Birrell
Frederick Ronald Birrell (7 December 1913 – 23 July 1985) was an Australian politician. History Born in Adelaide, South Australia, grandson of Robert Birrell (died 1880) and son of Frederick (c. 1877 – 31 July 1952) and May Birrell (née Moran), he was educated at state schools before becoming an auto worker. He served in the military from 1940 to 1946. From 1959 to 1963 he was the South Australian Secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Union, becoming its federal president 1961–1962. In 1958 he was president of the South Australian Trades and Labor Council. In 1963, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Port Adelaide. He held the seat until his retirement in 1974. Birrell died in 1985. Personal Fred Birrell married Patricia Lundie, a daughter of Francis Walter Lundie, long time leader of the Amalgamated Shearers' Union, then the Australian Workers' Union, Councillor for the Corporation of the City of Adelaide and the Port Adela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McInnes (politician)
John McInnes (23 April 1878 – 30 September 1950) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1918 to 1950, representing the electorates of West Torrens (1918–1938) and Hindmarsh (1938–1950). He was a member of the Labor Party throughout his career, apart from 1931 to 1934, when he represented the splinter Parliamentary Labor Party. He served as Speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1924 to 1926. McInnes was born in Scotland and moved to South Australia as a child. He was the inaugural secretary of the South Australian Government General Workers' Association from 1905 to 1911. He also became president of the United Trades and Labour Council of South Australia in 1908. McInnes was then general secretary of the Liquor Trades Employees Union from 1914 to 1924. He also served as president of the West Torrens Football Club for several years from 1917. Later, he served as state president of the Labor Party from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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