Albert George Allnutt (29 April 1892 – 18 March 1963) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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, Melbourne, to market gardener George Thomas Allnutt and Josephine Cameron. He attended state schools at Cheltenham and

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, and worked for his father before becoming a farmer at Carwarp around 1920. On 11 February 1922, he married Robina Elizabeth Marchbank, with whom he had a son; a second marriage to Wilhelmina Redenbach on 29 September 1929 produced a daughter. In 1927, he was elected to the

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as the Country Progressive member for

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. From 1930, he was a member of the reunited Country Party. He was government whip from 1936 to 1937, but from 1939 was an outspoken critic of

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's leadership. In 1945, he supported a no-confidence motion against Dunstan's government and was expelled from the Country Party. He stood as an independent ministerialist in 1945 but was defeated. Allnutt died at

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in 1963.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allnutt, Albert 1892 births 1963 deaths Country Progressive Party members of the Parliament of Victoria National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Independent members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians People from Cheltenham, Victoria Politicians from Melbourne