Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1930

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from 1930 to 1933, as elected at the 1930 state election: : Adelaide MHA Bert Edwards had his seat vacated for absence without leave on 23 June 1931. Lang Plan Campaign Committee candidate Martin Collaton won the resulting by-election on 25 July. He sat in parliament as a member of the new Lang Labor Party. : The Labor Party split in August 1931 over the Cabinet's support for the

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. The state conference of the party expelled the 21 MHAs who had supported it in parliament:

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, Bill Denny, Robert Richards, John McInnes, Sydney McHugh,

Eric Shepherd Eric John Shepherd (19 June 1894 – 30 August 1967) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1924 to 1933. From 1930 to 1933 he was Speaker of the House. Shepherd h ...

, Frank Staniford, Frederick Birrell, Alfred Blackwell, Thomas Butterfield, Clement Collins,

Jack Critchley John Owen Critchley (18 April 189227 April 1964) was an Australian politician who served as a Labor member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933 and then the Australian Senate from 1947 to 1959. Born at Callington in th ...

Even George Even Ernest George (1 February 1875 – 1 June 1969) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Burra Burra in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1930 to 1933. George was born at Quorn and educated locally, the son ...

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, Leonard Hopkins, Robert Hunter, Beasley Kearney,

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, John Pedler, Albert Thompson, and Walter Warne. They appealed the decision, but by November most had accepted their expulsion and formed a separate party, the

Parliamentary Labor Party The Parliamentary Labor Party (also known as the Premiers' Plan Labor Party or Ministerial Labor Party) was a political party active in South Australia from August 1931 until June 1934. The party came into existence as a result of intense dispu ...

; the remnants of the caucus continued to sit as official Labor. : Sturt MHA Bob Dale was also expelled from the Labor Party in August 1931 for supporting the rival Lang Plan of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang. He subsequently sat as a member of the nascent Lang Labor Party. : Victoria MHA Peter Reidy died on 17 January 1932. Liberal candidate Vernon Petherick won the resulting by-election on 5 March. : The Lang Labor Party split in April 1932, with MHA Martin Collaton and a number of senior officials forming the Lang Australian Labor Party. The party merged into the official Labor Party in October. : The

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merged with the SA branch of the Country Party to form the

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on 9 June 1932. : Two expelled MHAs, Albert Thompson and Beasley Kearney, were reinstated to the official Labor Party in June 1932 after an appeal to the party's federal executive. A third MHA, Walter Warne, was also readmitted by the time of the 1933 election. {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1930-1933 Members of South Australian parliaments by term 20th-century Australian politicians