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Stephen Perdriau
Raymond Stephen Perdriau (3 December 188625 December 1951) was an Australian politician. He was born at Waverley, New South Wales, Waverley in Sydney to surveyor Stephen Edward Perdriau and Grace Marion, ''née'' King. After attending Scots College and Sydney Grammar School he was employed by Dalgety's Ltd and then began farming on the Tweed River (New South Wales), Tweed River. During World War I he served in the First Australian Imperial Force, Australian Imperial Force's 3rd Artillery Division and was wounded and invalided at the Battle of Passchendaele; he attained the rank of corporal. On 5 November 1916 he married Isabella Aitchison in London, with whom he had a daughter. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920 as one of the members for Electoral district of Byron, Byron, a member of the Progressive Party (1920), Progressive Party. He served as Minister for Business Undertaking for one day, 20 December 1921. A coalitionist Progressive who had joine ...
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Waverley, New South Wales
Waverley is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Waverley is located seven kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of Waverley Council. Waverley Council takes its name from the suburb but its administrative centre is located in the adjacent suburb of Bondi Junction, which is also a major commercial centre. Waverley is the highest point of altitude in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), Eastern Suburbs. History Waverley takes its name from a home built near Old South Head Road in 1827 by Barnett Levey (or Levy) (1798–1837). It was named Waverley House, after the title of his favourite book, Waverley (novel), ''Waverley'', by author Sir Walter Scott. Waverley Municipality was proclaimed in June 1859. The house was a distinctive landmark and gave its name to the surrounding suburb. Waverley Cemetery (South Head General Cemetery ...
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John Perry (1845–1922)
John Perry (13 July 1845 – 10 May 1922) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney; his father, Julius Perry, was a bank clerk. He attended public schools at Surry Hills and Fort Street, and in 1861 began working for Watkins and Leigh, an importing firm. By the 1870s he was a sugar cane grower, also running a store at Alstonville. On 13 November 1870 he married Susan McAuslan Alston, with whom he had a son. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Richmond, belonging to the Protectionist Party. He transferred to Ballina in 1894, back to Richmond in 1904, and to Byron in 1913. During that time he served as Minister of Public Instruction, Labour and Industry (1899–1904), Colonial Secretary (1904), Secretary for Mines (1907–1908) and (1908–1910). After the collapse of the Protectionists' successor, the Progressive Party, in 1904, he joined the Liberal Party, along with most of his remaining party colleagues. Per ...
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Politicians From Sydney
A politician is a person who participates in policy-making processes, usually holding an elective position in government. Politicians represent the people, make decisions, and influence the formulation of public policy. The roles or duties that politicians must perform vary depending on the level of government they serve, whether local, national, or international. The ideological orientation that politicians adopt often stems from their previous experience, education, beliefs, the political parties they belong to, or public opinion. Politicians sometimes face many challenges and mistakes that may affect their credibility and ability to persuade. These mistakes include political corruption resulting from their misuse and exploitation of power to achieve their interests, which requires them to prioritize the public interest and develop long-term strategies. Challenges include how to keep up with the development of social media and confronting biased media, in addition to discr ...
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Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Following are lists of members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...: * 1856–1858 * 1858–1859 * 1859–1860 * 1860–1864 * 1864–1869 * 1869–1872 * 1872–1874 * 1874–1877 * 1877–1880 * 1880–1882 * 1882–1885 * 1885–1887 * 1887–1889 * 1889–1891 * 1891–1894 * 1894–1895 * 1895–1898 * 1898–1901 * 1901–1904 * 1904–1907 * 1907–1910 * 1910–1913 * 1913–1917 * 1917–1920 * 1920–1922 * 1922–1925 * 1925–1927 * 1927–1930 * 1930–1932 * 1932–1935 * 1935–1938 * 1938–1941 * 1941–1944 * 1944–1947 * 1947–1950 * 1950–1953 * 1953–1956 * 1956–1959 * 1959–1962 * 1962–1965 * 1965–1968 * 1968–1971 * 1971–1973 * 1973–1976 * ...
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Nationalist Party Of Australia Members Of The Parliament Of New South Wales
Nationalism is an idea or movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, it presupposes the existence and tends to promote the interests of a particular nation, Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Theory, Ideology, History''. Polity, 2010. pp. 9, 25–30; especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining its sovereignty (self-governance) over its perceived homeland to create a nation-state. It holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power. It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity, based on a combination of shared social characteristics such as culture, ethnicity, geographic location, language, politics (or the government), religion, traditions and belief in a shared singular history, and to promote national unity or solidarity. There are vario ...
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1951 Deaths
Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory, with the writing off of £36.5M debt. * January 11 – In the U.S., a top secret report is delivered to U.S. President Truman by his National Security Resources Board, urging Truman to expand the Korean War by launching "a global offensive against communism" with sustained bombing of Red China and diplomatic moves to establish "moral justification" for a U.S. nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. The report will not not be declassified until 1978. * January 15 – In a criminal court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to li ...
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1886 Births
Events January * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is published in New York and London. * January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck. * January 18 – Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. * January 29 – Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen (built in 1885). February * February 6– 9 – Seattle riot of 1886: Anti-Chinese sentiments result in riots in Seattle, Washington. * February 8 – The West End Riots following a popular meeting in Trafalgar Square, London. ...
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William Missingham
William Thomas Missingham (15 May 18681 February 1933) was an Australian politician. He was born at Jamberoo to farmer David Missingham and Priscilla, ''née'' Noble. Educated at Jamberoo and Kiama, he moved to the Richmond River area in 1890 to manage the Pearce Creek butter factory and, in 1898, became a dairy farmer. On 25 November 1891, he married Margaret Elizabeth Dorrough, with whom he had four children. He served on Terania Shire Council from 1906 to 1922 and as president from 1909 to 1922; he was also vice-president (1914–17) and president (1918–22) of the Shires Association of New South Wales. In 1922, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Progressive member for Byron; he was the party's deputy leader from 1925 to 1932 (it had become the Country Party in 1927). With the re-introduction of single-member districts in 1927, he became member for Lismore. Missingham held his seat until his death at Croydon Croydon is a large town ...
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Tom Swiney
Thomas James Swiney (1 January 187515 October 1945) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term from 1920 until 1922. He was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) . Swiney was born in Balranald, New South Wales and worked as a farmer. At the 1920 election, he was the first candidate on the ALP list and won the third and last position in the multi-member seat of Byron. Swiney was defeated at the 1922 election by 223 votes. He later held positions with the Aboriginal Protection Board Aboriginal Protection Board, also known as Aborigines Protection Board, Board for the Protection of Aborigines, Aborigines Welfare Board (and in later sources, incorrectly as Aboriginal Welfare Board), and similar names, refers to a number of hi .... He did not hold ministerial or party office. References   {{DEFAULTSORT:Swiney, Tom 1875 births 1945 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian Labo ...
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George Nesbitt
George Nesbitt (185913 December 1948) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Castlederg in County Tyrone to John Nesbitt, a Master in Poor Law, and Rebecca, ''née'' Gregory. He arrived in New South Wales in 1885 and worked for a Sydney softgoods firm as a traveller to the North Coast from 1887 to 1895. In 1895, he settled in Lismore and opened a general store; also, in that year he married Adina Morgan. He was active in various retailers' and commercial travellers' associations throughout the 1890s and 1900s and was an alderman and mayor at Lismore from 1906 to 1907. In 1913, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Lismore; with the introduction of proportional representation he became one of the members for Byron. He left the Assembly in 1925 but in 1927 was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two ch ...
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Frederick Stuart (Australian Politician)
Frederick Stuart may refer to: * Frederick Stuart (British politician) (1751–1802), MP for Ayr Burghs and Buteshire * Frederick Stuart (Australian politician) (1879–1954), Australian member of New South Wales Legislative Assembly *Freddie Stuart, English actor in the 2002 ''Spooks'' episode " Traitor's Gate" See also * Frederick Stuart Church (1842–1924), American drawing artist and illustrator *Frederick Stuart Greene Frederick Stuart Greene (1870 – March 26, 1939), was Superintendent of Public Works of New York State. Greene was an outspoken opponent to the scope of the United States Numbered Highways The United States Numbered Highway System (often ca ... (1870–1939), American Superintendent of New York State Public Works * Frederick Stewart (other) {{hndis, Stuart, Frederick ...
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Robert Gillies (Australian Politician)
Robert Towers Gillies (187626 July 1941) was an Australian politician. He was born on the Paterson River to farmers Dugald and Mary Gillies. He attended public school at Pimlico and worked as a blacksmith. Around 1903 he married Mabel Elsie McKeever, with whom he had six children. He farmed at Cudgera from around 1908, before relocating to Tweed Heads around 1922, where he became a contributor to the ''Tweed Daily'' and a councillor from 1922 to 1925. In 1925 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as one of the Labor members for Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-kno ..., but he was expelled in 1927 for his opposition to Jack Lang. He later joined the right-wing All for Australia League. After leaving politics he became a commercial agent in F ...
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