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John O'Connor (Australian Politician)
John O'Connor (20 October 1878 – 22 September 1937) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Flinders from 1924 to 1927 for the Labor Party. He was born and educated in Port Lincoln, and left school at twelve to work for a local farmer and grazier. He was a farmer and contractor at Tumby Bay prior to entering politics. He was a member of the Tumby Bay Hospital Board of Management and secretary of the Tumby Bay School Committee. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly at the 1924 election, but was defeated after one term at the 1927 election. He later contested Flinders as an independent Labor candidate at the 1930 election after being barred from the Labor preselection due to a dispute about owed levies, but was defeated. The Hundred of O'Connor County of Buxton is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land located in the centre of Eyre Peninsula. It was procl ... [...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] |
West Coast Sentinel
The ''West Coast Sentinel'' is a weekly newspaper published Thursdays in Ceduna, South Australia. It was founded in mid-1912, and has been published continuously since then. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History The ''West Coast Sentinel'' (subtitled: "circulating throughout the Great West Coast. Eyre's Peninsula") began publication in Streaky Bay on Friday 28 June 1912. At the time, its publishers hoped that the paper's reach would extend beyond its initial region stating, "...although the journal is to be published at Streaky Bay it will serve the whole West Coast, and endeavor to safeguard interests and foster development of the smallest, equally the largest town or settlement". On 25 April 1925, the title of the newspaper was simplified to ''West Coast Sentinel'', with a subtitle that read "A Weekly Paper alive to the needs of the West Coast." and a subtitle that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out the threat. * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Coles (Australian Politician)
Edward Coles (23 November 1874 – 16 October 1945) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Flinders from 1927 to 1930. He was elected for the Country Party, but resigned to join the larger Liberal Federation The Liberal Federation was a South Australian political party from 16 October 1923 to 1932. It came into existence as a merger between the rival Liberal Union and National Party, to oppose Labor. Encouraged by the overwhelming success of the ... in February 1928 after the failure of amalgamation talks between the parties. References 1874 births 1945 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Moseley (politician)
James Grey Moseley CMG (April 1848 - 10 July 1937) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Flinders from 1910 to 1933. He was part of the Liberal Union, Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League. History Moseley was born in Gawler, a son of Alice Moseley, née Maynard (c. 1819 – 25 April 1895) and Henry Jackson Moseley (c. 1819 – 6 July 1894), who emigrated with two brothers aboard ''Tam O'Shanter'' which arrived in 1836 as part of the First Fleet of South Australia, and is remembered for building the Pier Hotel, Glenelg. He was educated at J(ames) Mordey Mitchell's Glenelg Educational Institution, and on leaving was drawn to pastoral development, and around 1867, with his brother Thomas (1845–1896) left home with a combined capital of £800, which they put into a property, which might have been Coondambo Station, some north-west of Port Augusta. They were defeated by drought and lost everything, and returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Chapman (Australian Politician)
John Hedley Chapman (16 December 1879 – 14 March 1931) was an Australian politician. Born in Jamestown, South Australia, Jamestown, South Australia, he was educated at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, South Australia, Adelaide before becoming a bank clerk, and a farmer at Port Lincoln, South Australia, Port Lincoln. In 1918, he was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly as the Country Party (South Australia), Farmers and Settlers (later Country Party) member for Electoral district of Flinders, Flinders, serving until 1924. In 1925, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Country Party Senator for South Australia. He died in 1931; Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), Labor's Harry Kneebone was appointed to replace him. References National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for South Australia Members of the Australian Senate Members of the South Australian House of Asse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advertiser (Adelaide)
''The Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of in the 1950s, and the full ownership of in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hundred Of O'Connor
County of Buxton is a cadastral unit located in the Australian state of South Australia that covers land located in the centre of Eyre Peninsula. It was proclaimed in 1896 and named after Thomas Buxton who was the Governor of South Australia from 29 October 1895 to 29 March 1899. It has been divided into thirteen sub-divisions known as hundreds, with the most recent being created in 1928. Description The County of Buxton covers a part of South Australia associated with the eastern side of the centre of Eyre Peninsula located south of the Gawler Ranges. It is bounded to the west by the County of Le Hunte, to the south by the County of Jervois and to the east by the County of York and to the north by the County of Hore-Ruthven. The county is served by the following major roads - the Buckleboo Road which enters the county from the north-west and terminates in Kimba, the Cleve Road which enters from the south and meets the Cowell-Kimba Road which enters from the south-eas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Lincoln Times
The ''Port Lincoln Times'' is a newspaper published weekly in Port Lincoln, South Australia. It was first printed in August 1927, and has been published continuously ever since. It was later sold to Rural Press, previously owned by Fairfax Media, but now an Australian media company trading as Australian Community Media. History The origins of the ''Port Lincoln Times'' began when the ''Recorder'' in Port Pirie was taken over by Mrs R.L. McGregor and her two sons. McGregor had worked under David Drysdale at the '' Port Augusta Dispatch'' and claims she was instrumental in suggesting that he start a newspaper in Port Lincoln. In 1925, she was approached by another former ''Dispatch'' employee, Maurice Hill, to sell the ''Recorder'', but she refused, and as a result, Hill, along with J.E. Edwards, founded the ''Port Lincoln Times.'' The ''Port Lincoln Times'' was first published on 5 August 1927, and unlike many newspapers of the time, it did not continue or subsume a previous public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930 South Australian State Election
State elections were held in South Australia on 5 April 1930. All 46 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Federation government led by Premier of South Australia Richard L. Butler was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party led by Leader of the Opposition Lionel Hill. Each district elected multiple members. This election saw the change from first past the post (plurality) to instant-runoff (preferential) voting, which also meant that electors cast a single vote rather than multiple votes. With 30 of 46 seats in the House of Assembly, the election remains South Australian Labor's biggest seat win. Results See also *Results of the South Australian state election, 1930 (House of Assembly) *Candidates of the South Australian state election, 1930 *Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1930–1933 *Members of the South Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1933 This is a list of members of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Multi-member
An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political elections may take place in business, non-profit organisations and informal organisations. These rules govern all aspects of the voting process: when elections occur, who is allowed to vote, who can stand as a candidate, how ballots are marked and cast, how the ballots are counted, how votes translate into the election outcome, limits on campaign spending, and other factors that can affect the result. Political electoral systems are defined by constitutions and electoral laws, are typically conducted by election commissions, and can use multiple types of elections for different offices. Some electoral systems elect a single winner to a unique position, such as prime minister, president or governor, while others elect multiple winners, such as memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
