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Protectionist Party
The Protectionist Party was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1889 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism. It argued that Australia needed protective tariffs to allow Australian industry to grow and provide employment. It had its greatest strength in Victoria and in...
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Edmund Barton
Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
Barton's greatest contribution to Australian history...
Alfred Deakin
Alfred Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, Deakin was a major contributor...
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William Schey
William Francis Schey (1857 – 1913),was born in England and educated in London. After a short time in New Zealand, Schey arrived in Sydney as first mate of a ship in 1875. After tiring of work on the seas, Schey worked as a chainman for the Harbours...
Philip Fysh
Sir Philip Oakley Fysh, KCMG (1 March 1835 – 20 December 1919) was an Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania and a member of the first federal ministry.
Fysh was born in Highbury, London, the son of John Fysh and his wife Charlotte. He was...
James Dickson
Sir James Robert Dickson, KCMG (30 November 1832 – 10 January 1901) was an Australian politician and businessman, the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry.
Dickson was born in Plymouth, Devon, and migrated initially...
Charles Salmon
Charles Carty Salmon (27 July 1860 – 15 September 1917) was an Australian politician and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Salmon was born at Amherst, Victoria on 27 July 1860 to English-born parents: storekeeper Frederick Browne Salmon and...
Chester Manifold
James Chester Manifold (10 February 1867 – 30 October 1918) was an Australian politician and philanthropist.
Manifold attended Geelong Grammar School, and went to England with his family in 1881; however, the northern climate did not agree with his...
Hume Cook
James Newton Haxton Hume Cook CMG, known as Hume Cook, (23 September 1866 – 8 August 1942) was an Australian politician.
Cook was born in Kihikihi, New Zealand, son of a failed farmer and he had to leave school at 13 to work selling books. He...
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James McColl
James Hiers McColl (31 January 1844 – 20 February 1929) was an Australian politician.
McColl was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, the son of Hugh McColl, and migrated with his family to Australia in 1853, but his mother died before...
John Keating
John Henry Keating (28 June 1872 – 31 October 1940) was an Australian politician.
Keating was born in Hobart and educated at Officer College, Hobart, Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney and the University of Tasmania where he received a...
George Wise
George Henry Wise (1 July 1853 – 31 July 1950) was an Australian politician and solicitor.
Wise was born in Melbourne and educated at Scotch College from five-years of age to he matriculated in 1868. He became an articled clerk and was admitted to...
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Thomas Ewing
Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG (9 October 1856 – 15 September 1920) was an Australian politician, born at Pitt Town, New South Wales to clergyman Thomas Campbell Ewing and Elizabeth, nee Thomson. Despite an intention to study for the Bar, he joined a...
John Chanter
John Moore Chanter (11 February 1845 – 9 March 1931) was an Australian politician, farmer and commission agent. He was variously a member of the Protectionist Party, Australian Labor Party and Nationalist Party of Australia.
Chanter was born in...
James Fletcher
James Fletcher was an Australian coalminer and owner, newspaper proprietor and politician.
Fletcher was born in Dalkeith, East Lothian, Scotland and migrated to Australia in February 1851, first working in the goldfields and later in the Newcastle...
Alexander Brown
Alexander Brown (9 February 1851 – 28 March 1926) was an Australian politician.
Brown was born in Maitland, New South Wales and educated at Fraser's private school, West Maitland. He married Mary Ellen Ribbands in August 1872 and they had three...
David Watkins
David Watkins (5 May 1865 – 8 April 1935) was an Australian politician and Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Newcastle from 1901 until his death in 1935.
Born in Wallsend, New South Wales to Welsh parents, Watkins embarked upon a...
Thomas Walker
Thomas Walker (5 February 1858 – 10 May 1932) was an Australian politician, a member of two different state parliaments.
Walker was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, the son of corn miller and merchant Thomas Walker, and Ellen nee Eccles. He was...
Norman Ewing
Norman Kirkwood Ewing (26 December 1870–19 July 1928), Australian politician, was a member of three parliaments: the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, the Australian Senate, and the Tasmanian House of Assembly. He became a Judge of the...
Simon Fraser
Sir Simon Fraser (21 August 1832 - 30 July 1919), Australian politician, was a member of the Australian Senate and the grandfather of Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia from 1975 to 1983.
Fraser was born in Pictou in Nova Scotia, Canada,...
Littleton Groom
Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG (22 April 1867 – 6 November 1936) was an Australian Commonwealth Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australia's 10th longest serving federal Parliamentarian (33 years and one month). He was a...
Austin Chapman
Sir Austin Chapman KCMG (10 July 1864 – 12 January 1926), Australian politician, was a member of several early federal ministries. He was born in Bong Bong near Bowral, New South Wales and educated at Marulan Public School and was apprenticed as a...
William Lyne
Sir William John Lyne KCMG (6 April 1844 - 3 August 1913), Australian politician, was Premier of New South Wales and a member of the first federal ministry.
Lyne was born at Apslawn, Tasmania. He was the eldest son of John Lyne, a property owner,...
John Forrest
Sir John Forrest GCMG (22 August 1847 – 2 September 1918) was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament.
As a young man, John Forrest won fame as an explorer by...
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Robert Best
Sir Robert Wallace Best KCMG (18 June 1856 – 27 March 1946) was an Australian politician.
Best was born in the Melbourne suburb of Collingwood and educated at Templeton's school, Fitzroy. He left school at 13 and became a clerk in a printing office...
Richard O'Connor
Richard Edward O'Connor, QC (4 August 1851 – 18 November 1912), Australian politician, was a member of the first federal ministry.
O'Connor was born in the Sydney suburb of Glebe and was educated at Lyndhurst College, Sydney Grammar School, and at...
Charles Kingston
Charles Cameron Kingston, (22 October 1850 - 11 May 1908) Australian politician, was an early liberal Premier of South Australia serving from 1893 to 1899 with the support of Labor led by John McPherson from 1893 and Lee Batchelor from 1897 in the...
Richard Crouch
Richard Armstrong Crouch (19 June 1868 – 7 April 1949) was an Australian politician.
Crouch was born on at Ballarat East, Victoria, son of George Crouch, miner, storekeeper and later a wealthy boot-retailer from Tottenham, London, and his wife...
Samuel Mauger
Samuel Mauger (prounounced Major) (12 November 1857 – 26 June 1936) was an Australian social reformer, hat manufacturing unionist and a Protectionist politician.
Mauger was born in Geelong, Victoria, son of immigrants from Guernsey, Channel Islands,...
James Whiteside McCay
Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay KCMG, KBE, CB (21 December 1864–1 October 1930) rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Australian Army during World War I. He was also a member of the Victorian and Australian Parliaments. Although...
Pharez Phillips
Pharez Phillips (22 November 1855 – 9 August 1914) was an Australian politician.
Born in Mt Blackwood, Victoria, he was educated at Grenville College in Ballarat before becoming a shopkeeper, farmer, and St Arnaud Town Councillor. He was a notable...
John Quick
Sir John Quick (14 April 1852 – 17 June 1932), Australian politician and author, was the federal Member of Parliament for Bendigo from 1901 to 1913 and a leading delegate to the constitutional conventions of the 1890s.
Quick was born in Trevassa,...
William Sawers
William Bowie Stewart Campbell Sawers (1844 – 19 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Stirlingshire in Scotland, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1865, becoming a grazier with large holdings. In 1885 he was...
Jabez Coon
Jabez Coon (1869 – 15 April 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Maldon, Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a goldminer and then a boot merchant in Melbourne. In 1906, he was elected to the Australian House of...
George Cruickshank
George Alexander Cruickshank (1853 – 12 April 1904) was an Australian politician. Born near Dubbo, New South Wales, he attended Collegiate School in Bathurst, and was a grazier in northern New South Wales from 1878. In 1889 he was elected to the New...
Thomas Kennedy
Thomas Kennedy (1860 – 16 February 1929) was an Australian politician. Born in Gisborne, Victoria, he received a primary education and was a farmer by the age of 17. In 1894, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for...
Robert Harper
Robert Harper (1 February 1842 – 9 January 1919) was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated at Glasgow Academy and migrated to Australia in 1856, becoming a tea and coffee merchant and a pastoralist. In 1879, he was...
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson
Thomas Macdonald-Paterson (9 May 1844 – 21 March 1906) was an Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he was educated there privately before migrating to Australia in 1861, where he became a butcher, speculator and lawyer. In 1878 he was...
Francis Clarke
Francis Clarke (25 March 1857 – 18 May 1939) was an Australian politician. Born in Stroud, New South Wales, he attended Catholic schools at Bathurst before becoming a surveyor. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1893 to...
John Thomson
John Thomson (1862 – 14 July 1934) was an Australian politician. Born near Taree, New South Wales, he received a primary education before becoming a shopkeeper and grazier at Taree. He was an alderman on Taree Council before becoming a member of the...
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwards (1842 – 29 October 1915) was an Australian politician. Born in Montgomeryshire, Wales, he migrated to Australia in 1862, becoming first a goldminer in Victoria and then a shopkeeper in Brisbane. He invested in both sugar and...
John Langdon Bonython
Sir John Langdon Bonython KCMG (/bɑnɑeˈθən/) (15 October 1848 – 22 October 1939), editor, newspaper proprietor, philanthropist, Australian politician and journalist, was a Member of the First Australian Parliament, and was editor of the Adelaide...
