This is a list of
members of the South Australian House of Assembly
This is a list of state elections in South Australia for the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, consisting of the South Australian House of Assembly, House of Assembly (lower house) and the South Australian Legislative Council, Legislative C ...
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
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 Depress ...
. The state conference of the party expelled the 21 MHAs who had supported it in parliament:
Lionel Hill
Lionel Laughton Hill (14 May 1881 – 19 March 1963) was an Australian politician who served as the thirtieth Premier of South Australia, representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party.
Early life
Born in Adelaide, So ...
,
Bill Denny,
Robert Richards,
John McInnes,
Sydney McHugh,
Eric Shepherd
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,
Frank Staniford,
Frederick Birrell,
Alfred Blackwell,
Thomas Butterfield,
Clement Collins,
Jack Critchley,
Even George,
William Harvey
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,
Leonard Hopkins,
Robert Hunter,
Beasley Kearney,
Arthur McArthur
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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
Liberal Federation
The Liberal Federation was a South Australian political party from 16 October 1923 to 1932. It came into existence as a merger between the rival Liberal Union and National Party, to oppose Labor.
Encouraged by the overwhelming success of the ...
merged with the
SA branch of the Country Party to form the
Liberal and Country League
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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.
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