Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1930–1932

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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served from 1930 to 1932 were appointed for life by the Governor on the advice of the Premier. This list includes members between the 1930 state election on 25 October 1930 and the 1932 state election on 11 June 1932. [1] The President was Sir John Peden. [2] </ref> The Premier Jack Lang had been seeking to swamp the council, however the Governor Sir Philip Game had declined to do so in November 1930, March, June and September 1931 when Lang sought 70 new members be appointed. In November 1931 Lang dropped his request to 25 new members and the governor agreed to the request. [3] [4] This raised the number of members of the council from 85 to 110.

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In 1930 Labor put forward two bills, one to repeal section 7A of the NSW Constitution (which prevented the abolition of the Council without a referendum), the other to abolish the Council. Believing that a referendum was necessary before the bills could become law, the Legislative Council permitted the bills to pass without a division on 10 December. Lang then announced his intention of presenting the bills for Game's Royal assent without a referendum. The following day, two members of the Legislative Council, Thomas Playfair and Arthur Trethowan, applied for and were granted an injunction by the Supreme Court preventing the President of the Council and the ministers from presenting the bills to the Governor without having held a referendum. Peden, despite being named as the first defendant, did not defend the case as he was convinced of section 7A's validity under the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865. The injunction was upheld by the Full Court of the Supreme Court on 23 December. [5] Lang's appeal to the High Court of Australia was rejected by a majority of the court in Attorney-General (New South Wales) v Trethowan on 16 March 1931. [6] Lang then appealed this decision to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which delayed hearing the appeal until April 1932. [7] The appeal was finally resolved with the judgment of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on 31 May 1932 which dismissed the appeal. [8] The bills repealing Section 7A and abolishing the Legislative Council could not therefore be presented to the Governor for assent as they had been passed in a referendum. [7]

NamePartyYears in office
William Ainsworth   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1934
Carl Akhurst   Independent 1925–1934
Alexander Alam   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1958, 1963–1973
George Archer 1925–1949
James Ashton   Nationalist / United Australia   [lower-alpha 2] 1907–1934
George Black 1917–1934
Francis Boyce 1923–1932
Sir Henry Braddon 1917–1940
William Brennan   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1934
Charles Bridges 1925–1937, 1940–1943
William Brooks   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1934
Joseph Browne   Independent 1912–1932
Frank Bryant   Nationalist / United Australia 1912–1934
George Buckley   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
Nicholas Buzacott   Nationalist / United Australia 1899–1933
Sir Joseph Carruthers 1908–1932
Joseph Coates   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1921–1943
Stanley Cole   Nationalist / United Australia 1927–1934
James Concannon   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1958
Michael Connington   [lower-alpha 5] 1917–1930
Lawrence Cotter   Independent 1925–1934
John Cowburn   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
John Creed   [lower-alpha 6]   Nationalist / United Australia 1885–1930
John Culbert   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1943
John Davoren   [lower-alpha 7] 1931–1934
George Dewar 1921–1934
William Dick   Nationalist / United Australia 1907–1932
William Dickson   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1934, 1940–1966
Thomas Doyle 1925–1934
George Earp   Nationalist / United Australia 1900–1933
Thomas Falkingham   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
John Farleigh   Nationalist / United Australia 1908–1934
Ernest Farrar 1912–1952
Robert Fitzgerald 1901–1933
James Fox   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
William Gibb   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1934, 1943–1952
Donald Grant   [lower-alpha 8] 1931–1940
James Graves   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1961
Edward Grayndler   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1921–1934, 1936–1943
Catherine Green   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1932
Alfred Hemsley   Nationalist / United Australia 1927–1934
John Hepher   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1899–1932
Simon Hickey 1925–1934
John Higgins   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1921–1936
James Hoad   [lower-alpha 9]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1931
Thomas Holden   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1912–1934
Henry Horne   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1955
Sydney Innes-Noad   [lower-alpha 10]   Nationalist 1917–1931
Sir Norman Kater   Country 1923–1955
Edward Kavanagh   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1912–1934
John Keegan   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1934
William Kelly   Independent 1925–1932
John Kilburn   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
Robert King   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1960
William Kirkness   Nationalist / United Australia 1927–1934
John Lane Mullins 1917–1934
William Latimer 1920–1934
James Lyons   Independent 1925–1934
James Macarthur-Onslow   Nationalist / United Australia 1922–1934
Kenneth Mackay 1899–1934
Edward Magrath   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1943
Robert Mahony 1921–1961
James Malone   Independent 1925–1934
John Martin   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1946
Joseph Martin   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1934
Patrick McGirr 1921–1955
Hugh McIntosh   [lower-alpha 11]   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1932
Alan McNamara   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934, 1937–1955
Sir Alfred Meeks   [lower-alpha 12]   Nationalist / United Australia 1900–1932
James Minahan   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1934
George Mullins   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1948
Sir James Murdoch   Nationalist / United Australia 1923–1934
Thomas Murray   Independent 1921–1958
George Nesbitt   Country 1927–1940
Broughton O'Conor   Nationalist / United Australia 1908–1940
John O'Regan   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1921–1940
John Francis O'Reilly   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
John Joseph O'Reilly   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1933
Sir John Peden   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1946
John Percival   Independent/United Australia 1921–1934
Robert Pillans   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1934
Thomas Playfair   Nationalist / United Australia 1927–1966
Frank Pollard   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
Daniel Rees   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1934
William Robson   Nationalist / United Australia 1920–1951
Frederick Roels   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
James Ryan   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1940
Mick Ryan   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1943
Robert Savage   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934, 1943–1959
Thomas Shakespeare   Nationalist / United Australia 1923–1934
Andrew Sinclair 1912–1934
Gilbert Sinclair   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
Duncan Smith   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1934
Sir Joynton Smith   Independent 1912–1934
Samuel Smith   [lower-alpha 3]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1940
Tom Smith 1921–1934
Frank Spicer   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1973
Robert Sproule   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1920–1934
Thomas Storey   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1921–1934
John Suttor   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1921–1934
Colin Tannock   [lower-alpha 3] 1931–1952
Sir Allen Taylor   Nationalist / United Australia 1912–1940
John Travers   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1908–1934
Arthur Trethowan   Country 1916–1937
Thomas Tyrrell   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1942
George Varley   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1934
Thomas Waddell 1917–1934
Frank Wall 1917–1941
Winter Warden 1917–1934
Ellen Webster   [lower-alpha 13]   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1931–1934
Albert Willis   Labor / Federal Labor   [lower-alpha 4] 1925–1933
John Wise   Nationalist / United Australia 1917–1934
Edwin Wrench   Labor / Labor (NSW) 1925–1934
Arthur Yager 1925–1934

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Notes

  1. The changes to the composition of the council, in chronological order, were: Creed died, Connington died, Innes-Noad died, Labor split, UAP founded,. Hoad died, 25 appointed, Grant appointed, Webster appointed, Davoren appointed, Meeks died, and McIntosh bankrupted.<ref name=':7' group='lower-alpha'>Hugh McIntosh vacated his seat due to bankruptcy on 11 May 1932.
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References

  1. ↑ "Part 3 Members of the Legislative Council" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Part 10 Officers of the Parliament" (PDF). NSW Parliamentary Record. Parliament of New South Wales . Retrieved 26 November 2020. [lower-alpha 1]
  3. ↑ McMinn, W G. "Game, Sir Philip Woolcott (1876–1961)". Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press. ISSN   1833-7538 . Retrieved 5 August 2021– via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  4. ↑ "A bombshell". The Sydney Morning Herald . 21 November 1931. p. 12. Retrieved 5 August 2021– via Trove.
  5. ↑ Trethowan v Peden [1930] NSWStRp 90 , (1930) 31 SR (NSW) 183(23 December 1930), Supreme Court (Full Court).
  6. ↑ Attorney-General (New South Wales) v Trethowan [1931] HCA 3 , (1931) 44 CLR 394 , High Court.
  7. 1 2 Morrison, A S (1984), "Dominions Office Correspondence on the New South Wales Constitutional Crisis 1930-1932", PhD thesis, London
  8. ↑ Attorney-General (New South Wales) v Trethowan [1932] UKPC 1 , [1932] AC 526; [1932] UKPCHCA 1 , (1932) 47 CLR 97, Privy Council (on appeal fromAustralia)
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