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Jack Lang (Australia)
John Thomas Lang (21 December 1876 – 27 September 1975), nicknamed "The Big Fella", was an Australian politician and estate agent who served two terms as premier of New South Wales, in office from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1930 to 1932. He was the state leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1923 to 1939 and his Lang Labor faction was an influential force in both state and federal politics, breaking away from the official ALP on several occasions. Lang was born to a working-class family in Sydney and grew up in the city's inner suburbs. He left school at the age of 14 and worked a variety of jobs, eventually establishing a real estate agency in the Sydney suburb of Auburn. Lang was first elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1913 state election and would hold several seats over the following 30 years. He remained loyal to the ALP following the 1916 party split over conscription and served as state treasurer from 1920 to 1922 in the governmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister For Agriculture (New South Wales)
The New South Wales Minister for Agriculture is responsible for the administration and development of New South Wales agriculture, agriculture, fisheries, aquaculture, state forests, biosecurity, and crown lands in New South Wales, Australia. The current minister, who also serves as the Minister for Western New South Wales, is Tara Moriarty, since 5 April 2023. The minister administers the portfolio through the Department of Regional NSW, Regional NSW List of New South Wales government agencies#Clusters, cluster, including the Department of Regional NSW and a range of other government agencies such as the Department of Primary Industries (New South Wales), Department of Primary Industries. Ultimately the minister is responsible to the Parliament of New South Wales. List of ministers Agriculture The following individuals have served as Minister for Agriculture, or any precedent titles: Former ministerial titles Fisheries The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries was created i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Granville
Granville is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in Western Sydney, Sydney's West. It is currently represented by Julia Finn of the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party. Geography On its current boundaries, Granville includes the suburbs of Clyde, New South Wales, Clyde, Granville, New South Wales, Granville, Holroyd, New South Wales, Holroyd, Mays Hill, New South Wales, Mays Hill, Merrylands, New South Wales, Merrylands, Merrylands West, New South Wales, Merrylands West, South Wentworthville, New South Wales, South Wentworthville and parts of Greystanes, New South Wales, Greystanes, Guildford, New South Wales, Guildford, Parramatta, South Granville, New South Wales, South Granville, Wentworthville, New South Wales, Wentworthville and Westmead, New South Wales, Westmead. History Granville was first establi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Parramatta
Parramatta is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was won by Donna Davis (politician), Donna Davis of the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party in the 2023 New South Wales state election, 2023 NSW state election. Parramatta is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner north-west, roughly analogous to the City of Parramatta. Geography On its current boundaries, Parramatta takes in the suburbs of Camellia, New South Wales, Camellia, Carlingford, New South Wales, Carlingford, Dundas, New South Wales, Dundas, Dundas Valley, New South Wales, Dundas Valley, Ermington, New South Wales, Ermington, Granville, New South Wales, Granville, Harris Park, New South Wales, Harris Park, Melrose Park, New South Wales, Melrose Park, North Parramatta, New South Wales, North Parramatta, North Rocks, New South Wales, North Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morrow (Australian Politician)
Thomas Howard Morrow (23 March 1888 – 20 February 1971) was an Australian politician. Born in Ballintra in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland, to farmer Thomas Morrow and Elizabeth Hill, he was educated at the Civil Service Training College in Belfast and worked in the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) from 1907 to Dec 1912 before coming to Australia in Jan 1913. On 21 May 1914 he married Helen Mary Harvey, with whom he had four sons. From 1913 to 1916 he was an attendant at Parramatta Mental Hospital; he then worked for Clyde Engineering Company and then as a labourer at the Darling Harbour railway yards from 1918 to 1920. From 1920 to 1922 he was a watchman. In 1922 Morrow was elected as a Nationalist to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, representing Parramatta Parramatta (; ) is a suburb (Australia), suburb and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, on the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ely
William Thomas Ely (7 June 1869 – 19 April 1957) was an Australian politician. He was a Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1922 and 1925 to 1932, representing the electorates of electoral district of Parramatta, Parramatta (1920–22, 1925–27) and electoral district of Granville, Granville (1927–1932). He was Minister for Health during the second Jack Lang (Australian politician), Lang government from 1931 until 1932. Ely was born at Andersons Creek in Victoria (Australia), Victoria and trained as a journalist. He worked for ''The Age'' in Melbourne, for which he was assigned to cover the Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide conventions in the leadup to Federation of Australia, Federation, and later, some of the first meetings of the federal parliament. Ely was appointed as a representative of the newspaper in Sydney in 1905, and subsequently settled there. In 1912, he became co-proprietor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Bruntnell
Albert Bruntnell (4 August 1866 – 31 January 1929) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1906 until his death and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a conservative and at various times he represented the Liberal Reform Party (Australia), Liberal and Reform and the Nationalist Party of Australia, Nationalist parties. Early life Bruntnell was born in Breconshire, Wales. His father was a master blacksmith and he was educated to elementary level at National Society for Promoting Religious Education, National schools. Bruntnell was trained as a tailor but in 1885 he joined the Salvation Army and attended the Salvation Army Training School. Following graduation, his first appointment as a Salvation Army Officer was to accompany T. Henry Howard, Commissioner Howard to Australia in 1888. He remained in Australia and was promoted to captain in Melbourne in 1889. Bruntnell reached th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Parramatta
Parramatta is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was won by Donna Davis (politician), Donna Davis of the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party in the 2023 New South Wales state election, 2023 NSW state election. Parramatta is an urban electorate in Sydney's inner north-west, roughly analogous to the City of Parramatta. Geography On its current boundaries, Parramatta takes in the suburbs of Camellia, New South Wales, Camellia, Carlingford, New South Wales, Carlingford, Dundas, New South Wales, Dundas, Dundas Valley, New South Wales, Dundas Valley, Ermington, New South Wales, Ermington, Granville, New South Wales, Granville, Harris Park, New South Wales, Harris Park, Melrose Park, New South Wales, Melrose Park, North Parramatta, New South Wales, North Parramatta, North Rocks, New South Wales, North Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Lang (politician)
James Christian Lang (25 March 1910 – 14 December 2002), usually known as Chris Lang, was an Australian politician. The son of Jack Lang, Premier of New South Wales 1925–27 and 1930–32, he succeeded his father as the member for Auburn in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, serving from 1946 to 1950. Born in Homebush, Lang was educated at North Auburn Public School and Burwood Intermediate High School before entering his father's real estate business, Lang and Daes, in 1925. In 1930, he became the manager, remaining so until 1958, when he became the manager of his own real estate company until 1962. On 22 February 1933, he married Mary Dowling, with whom he had three children. He also served as secretary of the Auburn Starr-Bowkett Co-operative Building Societies. In 1946, Jack Lang resigned from state parliament to run for the federal seat of Reid, resulting in a by-election for the state seat of Auburn. By that time, both the federal and state branc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Auburn
Auburn is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Western Sydney, Sydney's West. It is currently represented by Lynda Voltz, after the 2019 election. Geography On its current boundaries, Auburn includes the suburbs of Auburn, New South Wales, Auburn, Berala, New South Wales, Berala, Birrong, Lidcombe, New South Wales, Lidcombe, Potts Hill, New South Wales, Potts Hill, Sefton, New South Wales, Sefton, Rookwood, New South Wales, Rookwood, Wentworth Point, New South Wales, Wentworth Point and parts of Bankstown, Bass Hill, Chester Hill, Silverwater, New South Wales, Silverwater and Yagoona, New South Wales, Yagoona. Members History Auburn was created in 1927. It has been held by the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor Party for its entire existence, and for most of that time has been one of Labor's safest seats ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Sydney, Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by Constituency, single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting, optional Instant-runoff voting, preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals Member of the Legislative Assembly#Australia, MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fitzpatrick (New South Wales Politician)
John Charles Lucas Fitzpatrick (15 February 1862 – 7 August 1932) was an Australian politician and journalist. Early life Fitzpatrick was born in Moama in the Riverina region of New South Wales, but his family moved to Windsor in 1869. He was educated at a catholic school and he was apprenticed to the former ''Australian'' newspaper's Windsor office at 14. He was a compositor on the former ''Melbourne Punch'' at 18 and subsequently worked on papers in Gunnedah, Narrabri, Walgett and Parramatta and Goulburn. In January 1886 he married Agnes Clare Kelly. In about 1888, he established the Windsor and Richmond Gazette and in 1905 he bought the ''Molong Argus'', which he sold in 1907. Political career Fitzpatrick was elected as the member for Rylstone in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the election in July 1895, representing the Free Trade Party. While the election was found to be invalid, he won the subsequent by-election in October 1895. He held the seat until 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
