Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945. He was the deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1932 to 1946. He served as prime minister in a caretaker capacity after the death of John Curtin,and is the shortest-serving prime minister in Australia's history.
Vincent Clair Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957,when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party from 1965 to 1973. In 1974 he was appointed Australian Ambassador to Ireland by the Whitlam government,which caused his expulsion from the DLP.
Sir George Francis Reuben Nicklin,was an Australian politician. He was the Premier of Queensland from 1957 to 1968,the first non-Labor Party premier since 1932.
The Queensland Labor Party (QLP) was a political party of Queensland,Australia formed in 1957 by a breakaway group of the then ruling Labor Party Government after the expulsion of Premier Vince Gair. In 1962 the party became the Queensland section of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP). The party continued to hold seats in the Queensland state parliament until 1972,then suffered a collapse in its vote and wound itself up in 1978.
This is a list of members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1957 to 1960,as elected at the 1957 state election held on 3 August 1957.
This is a list of members of the 34th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 19 May 1956 to 3 August 1957,as elected at the 1956 state election held on 19 May 1956.
Herbert Freemont Robinson was an Australian politician,and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1953 until 1957 representing the seat of Sandgate.
Paul Jerome Remigius Hilton was an Australian politician,and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1935 until 1963 representing the seat of Carnarvon,and a minister in both the Hanlon and Gair Ministries.
The Gair Ministry was a ministry of the Government of Queensland and was led by Labor Premier Vince Gair. It succeeded the Hanlon Ministry on 17 January 1952 following Ned Hanlon's death two days earlier. On 26 April 1957,Gair and most of the Ministry were expelled from the Labor Party and formed the Queensland Labor Party (QLP),retaining the ministry but losing the confidence of the Assembly. The ministry was followed by the Nicklin Ministry on 12 August 1957 following the defeat of both Labor and the QLP at the resulting election.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 19 May 1956 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its ninth continuous term in office since the 1932 election;it would be Vince Gair's second election as Premier.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 3 August 1957 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The major parties contesting the election were the Queensland Labor Party led by Premier Vince Gair,the Labor Party led by former Deputy Premier Jack Duggan,and the Country-Liberal coalition led by Frank Nicklin.
This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1938 state election in Queensland,Australia. The election was held on 2 April 1938.
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 28 May 1960 to elect the 78 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The election followed the enactment of the Electoral Districts Act 1958 which increased the Assembly from 75 to 78 seats and modified the zonal system first established by Labor ahead of the 1950 election.
This is a list of candidates who stood for the 1960 Queensland state election. The election was held on 28 May 1960.
Frank Edwards Roberts was an Australian politician. He was Lord Mayor of Brisbane from 1952 to 1955,and was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1947 to 1956,representing the electorate of Nundah. As with his predecessor as Mayor,John Beals Chandler,he was simultaneously Lord Mayor and a state MP. He represented Labor from 1947 to 1953 before resigning from the party;he was defeated for re-election as an independent for Lord Mayor in 1955 and as an MP in 1956.
Patrick Joseph "Pat" Hanlon was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1974,representing the electorates of Ithaca (1956-1960) and Baroona (1960-1974).
James Donald was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
John Edmund "Jack" Duggan was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was the Deputy Premier of Queensland from 1953 until 1957 and Leader of the Opposition of Queensland from 1958 until 1966.
Mervyn John Reginald "Curly" Anderson was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
The Australian Labor Party,commonly known as Queensland Labor or as just Labor inside Queensland,is the state branch of the Australian Labor Party in the state of Queensland. It has functioned in the state since the 1880s.
