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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1925–1928
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council between the elections of 4 June 1925 and 2 June 1928. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1922 triennial election with terms expiring in 1928, while the other half were elected at the 1925 triennial election with terms expiring in 1931. The Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903 defined 17 Provinces with two members each for a total of 34 members. :Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province. Sir Frank Clarke was President; William Edgar was Chairman of Committees; T. R. Gilchrist was Clerk of the Council. : On 13 January 1928, Joseph Sternberg, MLC for Bendigo, died. He was not replaced until the general election in June 1928. References Re-member(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral leg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although, it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for elections for the Legislative Council have above and below the line voting. Voting above the line requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Chandler (politician)
Alfred Elliott Chandler (1 July 1873 – 12 February 1935) was an Australian politician. Personal He was born in Malvern, Victoria to market gardener William Chandler and Kate Timewell. He attended state school and became a horticulturist, running a nursery in Boronia. On 24 May 1897, he married Elizabeth Ann Intermann, with whom he had one daughter. His wife died in 1899, following childbirth. Chandler remarried on 27 August 1901 to Marie Intermann, his first wife's sister. They had he had four sons and a daughter. Chandler died in Boronia in 1935. Political career He served on Ferntree Gully Shire Council from 1901 to 1935, with four terms as president (1908–09, 1918–19, 1923–24, 1934–35). In 1919 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Nationalist, representing South Eastern Province. He was Minister of Public Works and Mines from 1928 to 1929 and a minister without portfolio from 1932 to 1935. Following his death in 1935, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne West Province
Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1904 until 2006. It was created in June 1904 when Melbourne Province was reduced in size (four members down to two), North Yarra Province and South Yarra Province were abolished. The new Melbourne West Province, Melbourne North Province, Melbourne South Province and Melbourne East Province Melbourne East Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. It was created in June 1904 when Melbourne Province was reduced in size (four members down to two), North Yarra Province and South Yarra Province were abolished. ... were then created. Its area was defined by the Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903 as: Melbourne West Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. Members for Melbourne West Province Election results References * http://www.parliament. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Disney
James Herbert Arthur Disney (8 December 1864 – 28 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ballarat West to carter and tailor Charles Disney and Sarah Darley. He left school at fourteen to become a boilermaker, and from around 1886 worked in Melbourne. On 22 April 1886 he married Isabella Christina Hill, with whom he had five children. He left Melbourne in 1889, finding difficulty due to his union connections. He spent time as a fruiterer and woodyard proprietor, and from around 1898 was a second-hand furniture dealer. He served on South Melbourne City Council from 1908 to 1918 and was mayor from 1915 to 1916. In 1916 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Labor member, representing Melbourne West Province. He was a minister without portfolio from July to November 1924 and from 1927 to 1928. His son James was elected to the Council in 1940 for the United Australia Party. Disney continued to serve until his death at Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzR ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gippsland Province
Gippsland Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from November 1882 until 2006. It was based in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Gippsland Province was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished. The new Gippsland, North Central, South Yarra, North Yarra, South Eastern and Melbourne Provinces were then created. Gippsland province was defined in The Legislative Council Act 1881 and consisted of the divisions of Buln Buln, Narracan and Traralgon, Alberton, Rosedale, Maffra, Avon, Bairnsdale, Omeo, Towong, Yackandandah, Wodonga, Wood's Point, Walhalla and Sale. Gippsland Province was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. The Eastern Victoria Region now covers much of the area of the old Gippsland Province. Members for Gippsland Province Three members were elected to the province initially; four f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Martley Davis
George Martley Davis (7 January 1860 – 20 July 1938) was an Australian politician. He was born in Emerald Hill to grazier George Davis and Mary Critchley Sylvester. He attended state and grammar schools and worked as a stock agent on the Paroo River in Queensland. From 1882 to 1887 he worked as a valuer for Maffra Shire Council before becoming a partner in a stock and station agency. On 7 March 1886 he married Jane Elizabeth Manson, with whom he had four children. He served on Rosedale Shire Council from 1908 to 1930 and was president from 1909 to 1910 and from 1918 to 1919. In 1917 he won a by-election for Gippsland Province in the Victorian Legislative Council The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative C ..., representing the Nationalist Party. He was a minister wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Western Province (Victoria)
North Western Province (or North-Western Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006. Victoria was a British colony in Australia when North-Western Province was created, it became a state of Australia on Federation on 1 January 1901. North Western was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, each Province initially having five members. Located in the far north-west of Victoria, "North-Western Province" was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855, as ''"Including the Counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Pastoral District of the Wimmera and of the Loddon, except the proposed County of Rodney."'' Members for North Western Province Five members were elected initially, three after the redistribution of 1882 when Northern Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Country Progressive Party (Victoria)
The Country Progressive Party was a political party in the Australian state of Victoria from 1926 to 1930. It was a splinter group from the Victorian Country Party. It was formed by federal MP Percy Stewart and future Victorian Premier Albert Dunstan Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan, KCMG (26 July 1882 – 14 April 1950) was an Australian politician. A member of the Country Party (now National Party), Dunstan was the 33rd premier of Victoria. His term as premier was the second-longest in th ... in protest over protection of sitting members and state governments. Stewart was the party's only federal MP, while it elected four state MPs at the 1927 and 1929 Victorian state elections. The Country Progressives reunited with the main party in 1930. Much like the Victorian Country Party was associated with the branches of the Victorian Farmers Union, the Country Progressive Party established the Primary Producers Union which established branches in parts of Victoria. Election resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Crockett (Australian Politician)
William Paul Crockett (c. 1864 – 25 July 1932) was an Australian politician. He was born in Mansfield to farmer Anthony Forrest Crockett and Annie McDermott. He attended state schools and worked on farms before becoming a carpenter. In 1888 he moved to Mildura, eventually becoming an orchardist. On 15 April 1891 he married Jessie Clark McMillan, with whom he had seven children. He served on Mildura Shire Council from 1908 to 1918 and was president from 1914 to 1917. In 1919 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Council's North Western Province, representing the Victorian Farmers' Union. From that year he lived in Melbourne. Involved in the formation of the Country Party, he was a minister without portfolio from September 1923 to March 1924 and from November 1924 to June 1925, when he resigned over dried fruit rates and the wheat pool. In 1926 he joined the Country Progressive Party, remaining a member of the Council until his resignation in 1928. Crockett di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Province
Melbourne Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia). Melbourne Province was created in 1882 when Central Province was abolished in the redistribution of Provinces. Its area included central Melbourne, Carlton, Fawkner Park and Richmond. William Hearn and James Lorimer transferred from Central to Melbourne Province that year. In 1904, another redistribution occurred and Melbourne East Province, Melbourne North Province, Melbourne South Province, Melbourne West Province were created. The number of members representing Melbourne Province were reduced from four to two that year. Melbourne Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Bracks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Kate Bracks (born 1974), Australian reality television cook *Nick Bracks (born 1987), Australian male model, fashion designer and TV personality *Steve Bracks (born 1954), former Austra ... Labor government's reform o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cohen (politician)
Henry Isaac Cohen (21 February 1872 – 20 December 1942) was an Australian barrister and politician. Personal life Isaac Henry Cohen, always known as Henry Isaac, was born in Melbourne to financier David Cohen and Rachael Marks, both of London. On 27 June 1901 he married Ethel Mary Keon of Launceston, Tasmania. Cohen retained Jewish associations but his wife was a Catholic; their three sons and two daughters, who adopted the name Keon-Cohen, were brought up as Anglicans and attended Presbyterian schools. Education Cohen attended St James' Grammar School, the Melbourne Hebrew School and, from 1885, Scotch College where he was dux in 1888 and 1889. A student of Ormond College, University of Melbourne, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1894 and a Bachelor of Law with honours in 1895. Barrister In 1896 Cohen was called to the bar, but his career progressed slowly in the depressed 1890s. However, after a widely reported case in 1906, he began to prosper, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Clarke
William Lionel Russell Clarke (31 March 1876 – 14 May 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born in South Yarra, Victoria, South Yarra to grazier Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet, William John Clarke (later a baronet) and Janet Marion Snodgrass. He attended Melbourne Grammar School, Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College, Trinity College, Melbourne while attending the University of Melbourne and finally Oxford University, where he received a Master of Arts in 1902. He had inherited part of his father's Ballarat estate in 1897. On 23 September 1908 he married Florence Douglas Mackenzie, with whom he had three children. In 1910 he purchased the Rupertswood estate from his brother Sir Rupert Clarke, 2nd Baronet, Sir Rupert Clarke; he sold the Ballarat property in 1912 and Rupertswood in 1922, and farmed near Albury, New South Wales, Albury from 1912 to 1919 and at Hume Weir from 1919 to 1922. In 1922 he moved to South Yarra, where he was a member of the Melbourne Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
