Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1914–1917

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This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the Sixth Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1914 election on 5 September 1914.

There was a significant change in the party system during the Sixth Parliament. There was a split in the Australian Labor Party on 14 November 1916, when the then Prime Minister Billy Hughes walked out of a meeting of the Labor caucus over the issue of conscription along with twenty-four of his supporters, who were all then expelled from the party. Hughes and his followers became the informal "National Labor Party", which formed a minority government until merging with the Commonwealth Liberal Party on 17 February 1917 to form the Nationalist Party of Australia.

Member		Electorate	State	In office
Percy Abbott	Liberal / Nationalist	New England	NSW	1913–1919
Frank Anstey	Labor	Bourke	Vic	1910–1934
William Archibald	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Hindmarsh	SA	1910–1919
John Arthur ^[1]	Labor	Bendigo	Vic	1913–1914
Llewellyn Atkinson	Liberal / Nationalist	Wilmot	Tas	1906–1929
Fred Bamford	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Herbert	Qld	1901–1925
Sir Robert Best	Liberal / Nationalist	Kooyong	Vic	1910–1922
James Boyd	Liberal / Nationalist	Henty	Vic	1913–1919
Frank Brennan	Labor	Batman	Vic	1911–1931, 1934–1949
Reginald Burchell	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Fremantle	WA	1913–1922
George Burns	Labor	Illawarra	NSW	1913–1917
Ernest Carr	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Macquarie	NSW	1906–1917
James Catts	Labor	Cook	NSW	1906–1922
John Chanter	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Riverina	NSW	1901–1903, 1904–1913, 1914–1922
Austin Chapman	Liberal / Nationalist	Eden-Monaro	NSW	1901–1926
Matthew Charlton	Labor	Hunter	NSW	1910–1928
Joseph Cook	Liberal / Nationalist	Parramatta	NSW	1901–1921
Edward Corser ^[2]	Liberal / Nationalist	Wide Bay	Qld	1915–1928
George Dankel	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Boothby	SA	1913–1917
James Fenton	Labor	Maribyrnong	Vic	1910–1934
William Finlayson	Labor	Brisbane	Qld	1910–1919
Andrew Fisher ^[2]	Labor	Wide Bay	Qld	1901–1915
William Fleming	Liberal / Nationalist	Robertson	NSW	1913–1922
Sir John Forrest	Liberal / Nationalist	Swan	WA	1901–1918
Richard Foster	Liberal / Nationalist	Wakefield	SA	1909–1928
James Fowler	Liberal / Nationalist	Perth	WA	1901–1922
Paddy Glynn	Liberal / Nationalist	Angas	SA	1901–1919
Henry Gregory	Liberal / Nationalist	Dampier	WA	1913–1940
Littleton Groom	Liberal / Nationalist	Darling Downs	Qld	1901–1929, 1931–1936
Alfred Hampson ^[1]	Labor	Bendigo	Vic	1915–1917
Joseph Hannan	Labor	Fawkner	Vic	1913–1917
William Higgs	Labor	Capricornia	Qld	1910–1922
Robert Howe ^[3]	Labor	Dalley	NSW	1910–1915
Billy Hughes	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	West Sydney	NSW	1901–1952
Sir William Irvine	Liberal / Nationalist	Flinders	Vic	1906–1918
Jens Jensen	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Bass	Tas	1910–1919
Elliot Johnson	Liberal / Nationalist	Lang	NSW	1903–1928
Edward Jolley ^[4]	Labor	Grampians	Vic	1914–1915
Willie Kelly	Liberal / Nationalist	Wentworth	NSW	1903–1919
John Livingston	Liberal / Nationalist	Barker	SA	1906–1922
John Lynch	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Werriwa	NSW	1914–1919
Hugh Mahon	Labor	Kalgoorlie	WA	1901–1917, 1919–1920
William Mahony ^[3]	Labor	Dalley	NSW	1915–1927
William Maloney	Labor	Melbourne	Vic	1904–1940
Chester Manifold	Liberal / Nationalist	Corangamite	Vic	1901–1903, 1913–1918
Walter Massy-Greene	Liberal / Nationalist	Richmond	NSW	1910–1922
James Mathews	Labor	Melbourne Ports	Vic	1906–1931
Charles McDonald	Labor	Kennedy	Qld	1901–1925
Charles McGrath	Labor	Ballarat	Vic	1913–1919, 1920–1934
William McWilliams	Liberal / Nationalist	Franklin	Tas	1903–1922, 1928–1929
Parker Moloney	Labor	Indi	Vic	1910–1913, 1914–1917, 1919–1931
King O'Malley	Labor	Darwin	Tas	1901–1917
Richard Orchard	Liberal / Nationalist	Nepean	NSW	1913–1919
Alfred Ozanne	Labor	Corio	Vic	1910–1913, 1914–1917
Jim Page	Labor	Maranoa	Qld	1901–1921
Albert Palmer	Liberal / Nationalist	Echuca	Vic	1906–1919
Robert Patten	Liberal / Nationalist	Hume	NSW	1913–1917
Henry Pigott	Liberal / Nationalist	Calare	NSW	1913–1919
Alexander Poynton	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Grey	SA	1901–1922
Edward Riley	Labor	South Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Arthur Rodgers	Liberal / Nationalist	Wannon	Vic	1913–1922, 1925–1929
Granville Ryrie	Liberal / Nationalist	North Sydney	NSW	1911–1927
Carty Salmon ^[4]	Nationalist	Grampians	Vic	1901–1913, 1915–1917
Sydney Sampson	Liberal / Nationalist	Wimmera	Vic	1906–1919
James Sharpe	Labor	Oxley	Qld	1913–1917
Hugh Sinclair	Liberal / Nationalist	Moreton	Qld	1906–1919
Bruce Smith	Liberal / Nationalist	Parkes	NSW	1901–1919
William Laird Smith	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Denison	Tas	1910–1922
William Spence	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Darling	NSW	1901–1917, 1917–1919
Jacob Stumm	Liberal / Nationalist	Lilley	Qld	1913–1917
Josiah Thomas	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Barrier	NSW	1901–1917
John Thomson	Liberal / Nationalist	Cowper	NSW	1906–1919
Frank Tudor	Labor	Yarra	Vic	1901–1922
David Watkins	Labor	Newcastle	NSW	1901–1935
William Watt	Liberal / Nationalist	Balaclava	Vic	1914–1929
William Webster	Labor / National Labor / Nationalist	Gwydir	NSW	1903–1919
John West	Labor	East Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
George Wise	Independent/Nationalist ^[5]	Gippsland	Vic	1906–1913, 1914–1922
George Edwin Yates	Labor	Adelaide	SA	1914–1919, 1922–1931

Notes

1 2 Arthur died in December 1914, and was succeeded by Alfred Hampson (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 February 1915.
1 2 Fisher resigned in 1915, and was succeeded by Edward Corser (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 11 December 1915.
1 2 Howe died in 1915, and was succeeded by William Mahony (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 May 1915.
1 2 Jolley died in 1915, and was succeeded by Carty Salmon (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 20 February 1915.
↑ Wise joined the Nationalist Party in February 1917.

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[arthur-1] 1 2 Arthur died in December 1914, and was succeeded by Alfred Hampson (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 February 1915.

[fisher-2] 1 2 Fisher resigned in 1915, and was succeeded by Edward Corser (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 11 December 1915.

[howe-3] 1 2 Howe died in 1915, and was succeeded by William Mahony (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 May 1915.

[jolley-4] 1 2 Jolley died in 1915, and was succeeded by Carty Salmon (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 20 February 1915.

[wise_party-5] Wise joined the Nationalist Party in February 1917.

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