James Scullin - James Scullin James Scullin James Henry Scullin (September 18 1876 - January 28 1953), Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla, in western Victoria, the son of a railway worker of Irish descent. He was educated at state primary schools and worked as a journalist while studying privately. He joined the Labor Party in 1903 and became editor of a Labor newspaper in Ballarat, the Evening Echo. In 1910 Scullin was elected to the House of Representatives for the country seat of Corangamite, but he was defeated in 1913. He established a reputation as one of Labor's leading public speakers and experts on finance, and was a strong opponent of conscription. After World War I he came.
Jack Lang (Australia) - to evict defaulting tenants was too little, too late. His policy of paying the Basic Wage to all workers on relief projects restricted the number of men who were hired on these make-work schemes. The final straw came on May 13, 1932 when Jack Lang was dismissed from the Premiership by the Governor, Sir Phillip Game, a retired British air force officer. Bridge Over Troubled Water In March 1932 Lang opened the Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel that is still the widest bridge in the world and the most easily recognisable symbol of Sydney. However, Lang caused some controversy when he insisted on officially opening the Bridge. Protocol demanded that such an honour go to the Governor as the King's representative in New South Wales. A member of the paramilitary.
Joseph Lyons - Enid Burnell, an 18-year old teacher. She was a strong-minded woman who exercised great influence over Lyons, while raising their eleven children. He succeeded Earle as Labor leader and in 1925 he was elected Premier, holding office until 1928. In 1929 Lyons entered Federal politics, winning the seat of Wilmot in Labor's landslide victory under James Scullin. He was appointed Postmaster-General and Minister for Works and Railways. When the Depression struck in 1930, the Scullin government split over its response. Lyons became an advocate of orthodox finance and conservative policies and an opponent of Treasurer Ted Theodore. When Scullin reappointed Theodore to the Cabinet in 1931, Lyons resigned from the Cabinet and then the Labor Party. He formed a new party, the United Australia Party (UAP), which absorbed the Nationalist Party..
John Curtin - this period led him to drink heavily, a vice which blighted his career for many years. In 1917 he married Elsie Needham, sister of a Labor Senator. Labor politician Curtin moved to Western Australia in 1918 to become editor of the Westralian Worker, the official trade union newspaper. He enjoyed the less pressured life of the west and his political views gradually moderated. He stood for Parliament several times before winning the federal seat of Fremantle in 1928. He expected to be elected to the ministry in the Scullin Labor government in 1929, but disapproval of his drinking kept him on the backbench. He lost his seat in 1931, but won it back in 1934. When Scullin resigned as Labor leader in 1935, Curtin was unexpectedly elected to succeed him. The.
Joeseph Lyons - 1932 to 1939, becoming the first Australian PM to die in office. Previous Prime Minister: James Scullin Next Prime Minister: Earle Page This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
John Baird, 1st Baron Stonehaven - May 1927 he formally opened the first meeting of the Australian Parliament in the newly built Parliament House, Canberra, and at last was given a permanent residence, Government House, Canberra, commonly known by the previous name of the house, Yarralumla. This meant an end to travelling between government houses in Sydney and Melbourne and made the post of Governor-General less expensive. At the same time, the advent of aviation, of which Stonehaven was a keen exponent, made travelling around Australia much easier. For most of Stonehaven's term Bruce seem firmly entrenched in office, but in September 1929 he was unexpectedly defeated on the floor of the House of Representatives, and asked Stonehaven for a dissolution. Although the Parliament was only a year old, Stonehaven agreed at once: the days when Governors-General.
Isaac Isaacs - Protectionist government. He was one of a group of backbenchers pushing for more radical policies, and he earned the dislike of many of his colleagues through what they saw as his aloofness and rather self-righteous attitude to politics. Alfred Deakin appointed Isaacs Attorney-General in 1905, but he was a difficult colleague and in 1906 Deakin was keen to get him out of politics by appointing him to the High Court bench. Here he joined H B Higgins as a radical minority on the Court, in opposition to the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith. He served on the Court for 24 years, acquiring a reputation as a learned, radical, but uncollegial justice. In 1930 the Labor Prime Minister, James Scullin, appointed Isaacs, aged by this time 75, as Chief Justice. Shortly afterwards,.
History of Australia since 1901 - power under Andrew Fisher in 1910. Labor was narrowly defeated in 1913, but returned to power in 1914, and seemed set to become Australia's dominant political party. But the outbreak of World War I was to change Australian politics permanently. Australia gladly sent many thousands of troops to fight for Britain in the war, and thousands lost their lives at Gallipoli, on the Turkish coast and many more in France. Both Australian victories and losses on World War I battlefields contribute significantly to Australia's national identity. Over 60,000 Australian's died during the conflict and 155,000 were wounded. Australia still has an annual holiday to remember its war dead on ANZAC Day, 25 April, each year, the date of the first landings at Gallipoli in 1915. The parades attract large crowds across.
Governor-General - already had a Governor, the Queen's representative to the federated Dominion was given the superior title Governor-General. Until the 1920s, the Governor-General also acted as the representative of the British Government in each Dominion. The Governor-General could be instructed by the Colonial Secretary on the exercise of some of his functions and duties, such as the use or withholding of the Royal Assent from legislation. In 1927, implementing a decision of a Commonwealth Conference, this role was abolished. Today the following countries have Governors-General: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Solomon Islands. In Australia, Canada and New Zealand, the Governors-General were originally British, and were appointed by the British Government..
Australian Labor Party - its broader support base). Indeed, during the 1980s the party was responsible for the introduction of many economic policies such as privatization of government enterprises, and deregulation of many previously tightly-controlled industries, which are normally the province of conservative governments. The Labor Party has suffered three major splits. In 1915 over the issue of conscription (the then-leader Billy Hughes supported conscription, but the majority of the party did not support it), in 1931 over economic issues revolving around how to handle the depression (split between those who believed in radical-left economic policy such as NSW Premier Jack Lang and Federal Treasurer Ted Theodore, the centrists led by Prime Minister James Scullin and Federal MP Ben Chifley and the fiscal conservatives led by Federal MP Joseph Lyons). In both of those instances,.
Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives - this by the Deputy Speakers and a panel of Acting Speakers, who usually preside during routine debates. The occupant of the Chair must maintain order in the House, uphold the Standing Orders (rules of procedure) and protect the rights of backbench members. The Speaker, in conjunction with the President of the Senate, also administers Parliament House, Canberra, with the assistance of an administrative staff. Australian parliaments are notoriously rowdy, and the Speaker frequently exercises the disciplinary powers available under Standing Orders. The Speaker may summarily order a Member to excuse him or herself from the House for one hour. For more serious offences, the Speaker may “name” a Member. The House then votes on a motion to suspend the Member for 24 hours. (The House also has the power to expel.
Stanley Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce - of bitter industrial disputes, introduced legislation to dismantle the federal system of industrial arbitration. Hughes led a group of backbenchers who voted against the bill and brought the government down. At the subsequent election Labor won a landslide victory and Bruce lost his own seat - the only Australian Prime Minister to suffer such a fate. In 1931 Bruce won his seat back and became a minister without portfolio in the government of Joseph Lyons. But Lyons wanted Bruce out of politics and in 1933 he was dispatched to London as High Commissioner. He held this post with great distinction for 12 years, representing Australia's interests in London during World War II. He was appointed a member of the Imperial War Cabinet and the Pacific War Cabinet. In 1947 he was.
Richard Casey - Cross. After the war Casey worked for engineering and mining firms until 1924, when Prime Minister Stanley Bruce appointed him his political liaison officer in London, a position he held until 1931, sending home confidential reports on political and economic matters, both for Bruce and for his Labor successor, James Scullin. In 1926 he married Maie Ryan, with whom he had two children. In 1931 Casey returned to Australia and was elected to the House of Representatives as United Australia Party MP for the Geelong-based seat of Corio. Prime Minister Joseph Lyons appointed him an assistant minister in 1933, and in 1935 he became Treasurer (finance minister). In 1939 Robert Menzies became Prime Minister for the first time. He saw Casey as a rival, and moved him to the lesser portfolio.
Paul Keating - a working-class suburb of Sydney. He was one of four children of Matt Keating, a boilermaker and trade union representative of Irish-Catholic descent. Keating was educated at Catholic schools: he was the first practising Catholic to lead the Labor Party since James Scullin retired in 1935. Leaving school at 14, Keating worked as a clerk and then as a research assistant for a trade union. He joined the Labor Party as soon as he was eligible. Through the unions Keating met influential figures such as Laurie Brereton, Graeme Richardson and Bob Carr, and also developed a friendship with former New South Wales Labor Premier Jack Lang, then in his 90s. Keating met Lang to discuss politics on a weekly basis for some time, and in 1972 succeeded in having Lang's Labor.
Prime Minister of Australia - between the Privy Council and Cabinet in the United Kingdom, or between the Canadian Privy Council and the Cabinet in Canada. The power of the Prime Minister is subject to a number of limitations. If a Prime Minister acts against the interests of his parliamentary supporters he may be removed as leader of his party and thus lose the support of the lower house. If this occurs, he must resign the office or be dismissed by the Governor-General, in accordance with convention. The Prime Minister must receive the support of both houses of Parliament to pass any legislation (though secondary legislation, called Regulations, can be made by ministerial decree). While the Prime Minister normally will have a majority in the House of Representatives, attaining the support of the Senate can be.
Mathew Charlton - was elected leader, despite his lack of obvious leadership talent. Nevertheless, at the 1922 elections, he succeeded in winning some seats from Hughes's Nationalists. In 1925, however, there was a wave of industrial unrest in Australia, which the Nationalists, now led by Stanley Bruce, blamed on the newly-formed Communist Party. Bruce sought to link Labor to the Communists and the militant unions, despite Charlton's personal reputation as a moderate Labor leader. Bruce called an election in 1925 and won an increased majority. In 1928 Charlton stepped down as leader and was replaced by James Scullin. He retired from Parliament at the 1928 election and returned to Newcastle, where he served on the Waratah Municipal Council until his death in 1948. He remains the only federal Labor leader never to have held.
List of socialists - Barak, Agatha Barbara, José Batlle, Timoci Bavadra, Kim C. Beazley, Kim E. Beazley, August Bebel, David Ben-Gurion, Hillary Benn, Tony Benn, Pierre Bérégovoy, Paul Bérenger, Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Istvan Bibo, Tony Blair, Léon Blum, Juan Bosch, Robert Bradshaw, Willy Brandt, Karl-Hjalmar Branting, Algirdas Brazauskas, Ed Broadbent, George Brown, Gordon Brown, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Alexander Bustamante, Tubal Uriah Butler C. Jim Cairns, James Callaghan, Lorne Calvert, Arthur Calwell, Lázaro Cárdenas, Ingvar Carlsson, Barbara Castle, Milton Cato, Mathew Charlton, Mahendra Chaudhry, Hugo Chávez, Ben Chifley, Frederick Chiluba, Helen Clark, Avelino Coelho, Major Coldwell, Jeremy Corbyn, Bettino Craxi, Frank Crean, Simon Crean, Edith Cresson, Stafford Cripps, Tony Crosland, Richard Crossman, John Curtin, Massimo D'Alema, Hugh Dalton, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, John Clynes D. Moshe Dayan, Eugene Debs, Bertrand Delanoë, Joop den Uyl,.
Ken James - Ken James Ken James, born November 16, 1948 in Sydney, Australia is an actor known for regular roles in several popular television series. He played television actor Tony Wild in The Box and later was Mike O'Brien in Sons and Daughters. Other appearances include Skippy and Skyways..
King James Version of the Bible - King James Version of the Bible This article is part of the History of the English Bible series. Old English Bible translations John Wyclif William Tyndale Great Bible Bishops' Bible Geneva Bible Douai Bible King James Version of the Bible Revised Standard Version New American Standard Version New English Bible New International Version New Revised Standard Version The King James Version or Authorised Version of the Holy Bible was a translation in English for the benefit of the Church of England at the behest of King James I of England. First published in 1611, it was the authorized version for use in the Church of England and became perhaps the most influential English version in America. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Starting the project 2 Literary qualities.
King James Only Movement - King James Only Movement The King James Only Movement is a movement within Protestant fundamentalist Christianity which rejects all modern translations of the Bible, and accepts only the King James Version (KJV). This position is most prevalent within the Independent Baptist branch of the Baptist movement. The rejection is based in part on the different texts which were used to translate the different translations of the Bible. Most modern translations are translated from the Alexandrian manuscripts, while the King James Version was translated from the Textus Receptus, or Received Text. There are variations within the King James Only Movement. For example, the late John R. Rice, who published The Sword of the Lord, took a position that only the original Greek and Hebrew manuscripts are inspired scripture,.
