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Members Of The South Australian Legislative Council, 1930–1933
This is a list of members of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1930 to 1933. : The Australian Labor Party split in August 1931 over the Cabinet's support for the Premiers' Plan as a response to the Great Depression. The state conference of the party expelled all 23 Labor MPs who had voted for the plan, including two of their four MLCs - James Jelley and Stanley Whitford. Jelley and Whitford both joined their expelled House of Assembly colleagues in forming the separate Parliamentary Labor Party. The two remaining MLCs, Frank Condon and Tom Gluyas, remained in the official Labor Party. : Labor MLC Tom Gluyas died on 3 September 1931. Independent candidate Joseph Anderson won the resulting by-election on 24 October. : LCL MLC Sir Lancelot Stirling died on 24 May 1932. Reuben Cranstoun Mowbray was elected unopposed to the vacancy on 17 June. : The two conservative parties, the Liberal Federation and the state branch of the Country Party, merged to create the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. The upper house has 22 members elected for eight-year terms by proportional representation, with 11 members facing re-election every four years. It is elected in a similar manner to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Casual vacancies—where a member resigns or dies—are filled by a joint sitting of both houses, who then elect a replacement. History Advisory council At the founding of the Province of South Australia under the ''South Australia Act 1834'', governance of the new colony was divided between the Governor of South Australia and a Resident Commissioner, who reported to a new body known as the ''South Australian Colonization Commission''. Under this arrangement, there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McCallum
Thomas McCallum (17 March 1860 – 20 April 1938) was a politician in South Australia. History McCallum was born at Langhorne's Creek a son of John McCallum of "Ballindown", and was educated at Glenelg Grammar School for a year, then under a private tutor at McGrath's Flat. He lived in the Meningie district since childhood, and his holding at McGraths Flat was one of the biggest in the district, with a frontage along the Coorong, carrying 6,000 sheep and many cattle. He was in 1888 elected a foundation member of the District Council of Meningie The District Council of Meningie was a local government area in the colony and then the Australian state of South Australia that existed from 1888 to 1997 on land in the state’s south-east. It was proclaimed on 5 January 1888 under the ''Di ..., and was associated with the council ever since, and for many years was chairman. He joined the Liberal Union when it was formed around 1912, and was in 1920 selected to stand for the So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Central District No
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was an economic shock that impacted most countries across the world. It was a period of economic depression that became evident after a major fall in stock prices in the United States. The economic contagion began around September and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 (Black Thursday). It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932, worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) fell by an estimated 15%. By comparison, worldwide GDP fell by less than 1% from 2008 to 2009 during the Great Recession. Some economies started to recover by the mid-1930s. However, in many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the beginning of World War II. Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premiers' Plan
The Premiers' Plan was a deflationary economic policy agreed by a meeting of the Premiers of the Australian states in June 1931 to combat the Great Depression in Australia that sparked the 1931 Labor split. Background The Great Depression in Australia saw huge levels of unemployment and economic suffering amid plummeting export income. Although the economic downturn was a product of international events, Australian governments grappled with how to respond. Conventional economists said governments should pursue deflationary policies. Radicals proposed inflationary responses and increased government spending. The James Scullin Labor Government had won office at the 1929 federal election just in time to face the full force of the global crisis—the ‘Wall Street crash’ took place in the first week of his government. Division emerged within the Labor government over how to respond. Scullin invited Sir Otto Niemeyer of the Bank of England to come to Australia to advise on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Dove Young
Harry Dove Young (5 January 1867 – 20 June 1944), generally referred to as Harry D. Young, was a vigneron and politician in South Australia. History Harry was a son of Charles Burney Young and Nora Creina Young, née Bacon, who were married at Swanscombe, Kent in 1851 and emigrated to South Australia on the ''Flora Kerr'', arriving in 1855. :Nora Creina Young was a daughter of Anthony Bacon (British Army officer), Major General Bacon and Lady Bacon (1801–1880), who before her marriage was Lady Charlotte Harley, the beauty to whom Lord Byron dedicated, as "Ianthe", his ''Childe Harold's Pilgrimage''. Nora's brothers Edward and Harley Bacon also settled in South Australia. Lady Bacon followed them and lived in Adelaide from 1865 to 1877 They returned to England, where the brothers stood to gain a sizeable inheritance on condition that they adopt the surname Harley. Harry was born in North Adelaide and educated at Aldenham in Hertfordshire and St Peter's College, Adelaide, St. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Whitford
Stanley R. Whitford (5 January 1878 – 13 December 1959) was a unionist and Labor politician in the State of South Australia. History Stanley Whitford was born the youngest son of Richard Whitford (ca.1835 – 27 April 1898) and Emma Prior Whitford (the widow Prior), née Matthews, (1835 – 28 July 1908) of Moonta. His parents emigrated from Gunnislake, Cornwall on the ''Sir Richard Burlington'', arriving in Adelaide on 14 February 1856. They spent three years in Burra before settling in Moonta. Stanley R. Whitford, as he became known, was educated at the State school and attended night classes at the Moonta School of Mines in 1897 and 1898. He was employed by a blacksmith for seven years, then from 1899 to 1908 worked on the goldfields in Western Australia. then started working for the South Australian Railways at Mount Gambier and became active with the South Australian Railways and Tramways Association. He moved to Adelaide sometime before 1918, living at Gilles Street. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Tassie
Henry Tassie (8 June 1863 – 26 October 1945) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1918 to 1938, representing Central District No. 2 for three successive conservative parties: the Liberal Union, Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League. He was Chief Secretary, Minister of Mines and Minister of Marine from 1927 to 1930 in the government of Richard Layton Butler. History He was born in 1863, a son of Robert Stewart Tassie (ca.1831 – 1 January 1905) of South Terrace, Adelaide. His father had emigrated from Scotland in 1854. Henry was educated at W. S. Moore's Pulteney Street School and there won a scholarship to St. Peter's College, Adelaide. He served for three years with the Adelaide firm of W. & J. Storrie, then with D. M. Peek of Balaklava. In 1895 he started with a firm of stockbrokers, then started on his own accountBurgess, H. T. (ed.) ''The Cyclopedia of South Australia: An Historical and Commercial Revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancelot Stirling
Sir John Lancelot Stirling, (5 November 1849 – 24 May 1932), generally known as Sir Lancelot Stirling, was an Australian politician and grazier. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1881 to 1887, representing Mount Barker, and 1888 to 1890, representing Gumeracha. He was then a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1891 to 1932, representing the Southern District. He was President of the Legislative Council from 1901 to 1932 and was Chief Secretary in the seven-day Solomon Ministry of 1899. Early life Stirling was born at Strathalbyn, South Australia, the son of Edward Stirling (1804–1873) and his wife Harriett, ''née'' Taylor and brother of Sir Edward Charles Stirling. His father was the illegitimate child of a Scottish planter in Jamaica and an unknown woman of colour. Stirling was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. and LL.B Stirling was a good athlete and, repre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ritchie (politician)
Sir George Ritchie KCMG (14 December 1864 – 7 August 1944) was a South Australian politician. During his parliamentary career he held every ministerial position and was a minister in both Houses, a feat rarely equalled. History Ritchie was the third son of Captain James Ritchie (1832 – 23 April 1881) and his wife Alison (12 August 1829 – 20 February 1913). Captain James Ritchie, and five others left Scotland for Australia in the early 1850s sailing the ''Lioness'', a 75-ton River Mersey steamer for Captain Cadell, then became a shipowner trading on the River Murray and Murrumbidgee, when his name was as familiar as those of William Randell and Cadell. One of his feats was to captain the ''Gundagai'', a river boat of 129 feet length, to New Zealand with gold to finance the Maori war. Ritchie was born at Goolwa in 1864, was educated at the Echuca Grammar School, and after four years' apprenticeship with a draper, joined his father on the river. In 1884, two years aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Henry Prosser
George Henry Prosser (ca.1867 – 22 August 1941) was a businessman and politician in South Australia. History George Prosser was born at Gawler River and was a student at the Grote Street school. He was a member of the Adelaide City Council for 27 years, and an alderman in 1933. He was mayor of the Town of Kensington and Norwood from 1907 to 1912. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and served as president. He was a director of Wallaroo-Mount Lyell Fertilisers Ltd. and chairman 1931–1933. He was also on the board of Adelaide Cement and Wilkinson & Co., Ltd, Elder's Trustee and Executor Co. Ltd. He was a member of the Legislative Council for Central District No. 2 from 1921 to 1933. He was captain of the Marryatville Bowling Club. Family On 29 November 1893 he married Emalia Rosa "Emily" Robinson in November 1893. They had two daughters: *Gladys Prosser (30 October 1894 – ) married Charles Ashley Foale (1884–1938) on 6 June 1917. Gladys was an accomplished sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Pascoe (politician)
Thomas Pascoe (23 June 1859 – 23 February 1939) was a wheat grower and politician in South Australia. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1900 to 1933, representing the North-Eastern District and its successor the Midland District. He was a minister in the governments of Archibald Peake and Henry Barwell, holding responsibilities for agriculture, education and mining, and eventually being promoted to Chief Secretary in the last months of the Barwell government. History Pascoe was born at White Hut (part of the locality of Stanley Flat since 2001), near Clare, the second son of Thomas Pascoe, Sr. (1836 – 1 March 1918) and his wife Fanny Pascoe, née Roach. His father, who arrived in South Australia on the ''Abberton'' from Crowan, Cornwall in 1848 with his parents and siblings, worked at the Burra mines, married at Penwortham in 1852, made several valuable finds at the Forest Creek gold diggings and established Angle Farm at White Hut and an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
