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North-East Province (Western Australia)
North-East Province was an electoral province of the Legislative Council of Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ... between 1897 and 1965. It elected three members throughout its existence. Members References * David Black (2014)''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)'' pp. 221–222 {{coord missing, Western Australia Former electoral provinces of Western Australia 1897 establishments in Australia 1965 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Legislative Assembly, the lower house. The two Houses of Parliament sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Perth. Effective on 20 May 2005, for the election of members of the Legislative Council, the State was divided into 6 electoral regions by community of interest —3 metropolitan and 3 rural—each electing 6 members to the Legislative Council.. The 2005 changes continued to maintain the previous malapportionment in favour of rural regions. Legislation was passed in 2021 to abolish these regions and increase the size of the council to 37 seats, all of which will be elected by the state-at-large. The changes will take effect in the 2025 state election. Since 2008, the Legislative Council has had 36 members. Since the 2013 state election, both houses of Parliament have had fix ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Labor Party
The National Labor Party was formed by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes in 1916, following the 1916 Labor split on the issue of World War I conscription in Australia. Hughes had taken over as leader of the Australian Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia when anti-conscriptionist Andrew Fisher resigned in 1915. He formed the new party for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the ALP a month after the 1916 plebiscite on conscription in Australia. Hughes held a pro-conscription stance in relation to World War I. Formation On 15 September 1916, the executive of the Political Labour League (the Labor Party organisation in New South Wales at the time) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party. When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members; the remaining 43 members of Caucus then passed their motion of no confidence in the leadership, effectively expelling H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Black (historian)
David William Black (born 1936) is a Western Australian historian. He has lectured and written extensively on Australian and Western Australian history, especially political history. He was Professor in History and Politics in the School of Social Sciences and Asian Languages at Curtin University of Technology until his retirement in 2002, and is now professor emeritus. He is currently Chairperson of the Parliamentary History Advisory Committee, and a Parliamentary Fellow (History). He has had numerous publications and considerable media exposure in regard to parliamentary history in Western Australia. Black was appointed Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours The 2010 Australia Day Honours are appointments to various orders and honours to recognise and reward good works by Australian citizens. The list was announced on 26 January 2010 by the Governor General of Australia, Quentin Bryce. The Australia D ... for "service to education and to the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dellar
David Peter Dellar (30 October 1915 – 30 January 1994) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1963 to 1965, representing North-East Province. Dellar was born in Kanowna, Western Australia, to Eileen Grace (née Henderson) and Benjamin James Dellar. He was educated at state schools in Menzies and Salmon Gums before going on to the Kalgoorlie School of Mines. After finishing his education, Dellar worked for periods on the mines at Linden, Menzies, Kanowna, and Kalgoorlie. He enlisted in the Australian Army in 1942, initially with an anti-aircraft unit and later as a troop instructor. Dellar was discharged in 1946, and returned to mining.David Peter Dellar Biographical Registe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Teahan
John Denis Teahan (28 August 1900 – 21 October 1968) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1954 to 1965, representing North-East Province. Teahan was born in Boulder, Western Australia, to Ellen (née Anglis) and Patrick Teahan. He attended Christian Brothers' College, Kalgoorlie, and then moved to Perth to work as a clerk with the Commonwealth Taxation Office. Teahan moved back to Kalgoorlie in 1932, setting up as a storekeeper and taxation consultant. He was elected to the Boulder Municipal Council in 1938, and in 1944 was elected mayor. Teahan contested Labor preselection for the 1948 Boulder by-election, but was defeated by Charlie Oliver. He entered parliament at the 1954 Legislative Council election, defeating Sir Harold Seddon of the Liberal Party The Liberal Party is any of many political parties around the world. The meaning of ''liberal'' varies around the world, ranging from li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Western Australian Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Western Australian Division), branded as Liberal Western Australia, is the division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Western Australia. Founded in March 1949 as the Liberal and Country League of Western Australia (LCL), it simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1968. There was a previous Western Australian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged into the LCL in May 1949. The Liberal Party has held power in Western Australia for five separate periods in coalition with the National Party (previously the Country party), with the longest period between 1959 and 1971. The party was the sole opposition in the state from 2017 until the 2021 election, where the party lost eleven seats, thus losing opposition status to the National Party, marking the first time the party had failed to form either a coalition government or opposition on its own. Following the election, the Liber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hall (Australian Politician)
William Reaper Hall (3 May 1902 – 1 May 1963) was an Australian trade unionist and politician who served as a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1938 until his death, representing North-East Province. Hall was born in Boulder, Western Australia. He attended state schools in Kalgoorlie and then began working as a miner. Hall later began working for the Kalgoorlie Tramways, and eventually became secretary of the Tramway Employees' Union. He was elected to the Kalgoorlie Road Board in 1933 and would serve until 1949, including as chairman from 1935. Hall entered parliament in 1938, defeating Catherine Reid Elliott, MBE, widow of the previous incumbent, Charles Elliott. He was re-elected in 1944, 1950, 1956, and 1962, and in 1954 was made chairman of committees. Hall died in Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Heenan (politician)
Eric Heenan (29 April 1900 – 26 June 1998) was an Australian politician. He was born in Kanowna, Western Australia to Michael Joseph Heenan and Josephine Frances (McCarthy) and educated at CBC Wakefield Street Adelaide, South Australia, Articled to Neville Heenan in Northam Practiced Law in the Western Australian goldfields and Perth. Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1936 to 1968 . Married Joan McKenna, one child Eric Michael Heenan. Enlisted in Australian Army in the First World War 22 July 1918.http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=5309887 Arrived in Durban on HMAT Boonah on way to Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ... as peace declared. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Heenan, Eric 1900 births 1998 deaths Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Elliott (Australian Politician)
Charles George Elliott (3 March 1870 - 23 March 1938) was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1934 until his death, representing North-East Province. Elliott was born at Gundaroo, New South Wales, where his parents had a pastoral property, and educated at local schools. He came to Western Australia in 1893. He walked from the then rail-head at Southern Cross to Coolgardie, prospected in various places, mainly at Mount Margaret, and managed several outback mines and batteries. He eventually settled in Kalgoorlie, where he became a prominent tributer (a miner who works mines under an agreement with the owner for a proportion of the proceeds) and mining engineer. He was a councillor of the Municipality of Kalgoorlie from November 1922 to May 1934. Elliott developed a reputation as an advocate for the interests of tributers. In 1921, he was largely responsible for making the tributers' case at a Royal Commi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Moore (Australian Politician)
Sir Richard Greenslade Moore (21 June 1878 – 15 September 1966) was an Australian politician who served as Mayor of the Municipality of Kalgoorlie (Town of Kalgoorlie from 1961) between 1937 and 1966. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council between 1932 and 1936. Early life Moore was born in 1878 in Neereman, near Bendigo in the Goldfields region of Victoria to Anne ( Greenslade) and John Moore. His father was a blacksmith and Richard took on his father's trade after finishing school. Move to Western Australia In 1900, Moore moved to Kalgoorlie where he worked as a gold miner. Two years later, he set up a blacksmith operation at Broad Arrow, north of Kalgoorlie. In the following years, Moore moved between Kalgoorlie, Perth, back to Victoria; finally returning to Kalgoorlie towards the end of the decade. Politics In April 1925, Moore was elected to the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council in an extraordinary election. Moore was elected to the Western Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Allsop
Frederick William Allsop (22 September 1865 – 15 September 1932) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1930 until his death, representing North-East Province. Prior to entering politics he worked as a metallurgist. Allsop was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to Anne (née Jefferies) and William Allsop. His parents moved to Australia when he was an infant and settled in Ballarat, Victoria, where he attended Ballarat High School and the Ballarat School of Mines. In 1893, Allsop moved to South Africa, where he worked as a metallurgical assayer for a Johannesburg-based gold mining firm. He later helped to establish a cyanide plant at Spitzkop (near Lydenburg). Allsop returned to Australia in 1896 and lived in Victoria until 1905, when he moved to Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He served on the Kalgoorlie Municipal Council from 1921 to 1930, including as mayor from 1922 to 1927. At the 1928 Legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Reid Brown
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
