Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton was an Australian statesman,barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903. He held office as the leader of the Protectionist Party,before resigning in 1903 to become a founding member of the High Court of Australia,on which he served until his death. He was highly regarded as one of the leaders and founding fathers of the Federation movement and for his work in drafting and later interpreting the Constitution of Australia and early federal laws.
Sir William John Lyne KCMG was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1899 to 1901,and later as a federal cabinet minister under Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. He is best known as the subject of the so called "Hopetoun Blunder",unexpectedly being asked to serve as the first Prime Minister of Australia but proving unable to form a government.
Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens,also referred to as B. S. B. Stevens,was an Australian politician who served as the 25th Premier of New South Wales,in office from 1932 to 1939 as leader of the United Australia Party (UAP).
Sir George Warburton Fuller was an Australian politician who served as the 22nd Premier of New South Wales,in office from 1922 to 1925 and for one day in December 1921. He previously served in the federal House of Representatives from 1901 to 1913,representing the Division of Illawarra,and was Minister for Home Affairs under Alfred Deakin from 1909 to 1910.
Reginald Walter Darcy Weaver was an Australian conservative parliamentarian who served in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 28 years. Serving from 1917 in the backbenches,he entered the cabinet of Thomas Bavin in 1929 as Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests until he returned to opposition in 1930. Following the success of the United Australia Party in the 1932 election,Weaver returned as the Secretary for Public Works and Minister for Health in the Stevens ministry.
Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG was an Australian politician. He began his career in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1885–1901) before winning election to the Division of Richmond at the inaugural 1901 federal election. He held ministerial office in the second Deakin government as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1905–1906),Minister for Home Affairs (1906–1907),and Minister for Defence (1907–1908).
Frederick Earle Winchcombe (1855–1917) was an Australian businessman and member of the New South Wales Parliament.
The 1927 New South Wales state election to elect the 90 members of the 28th Legislative Assembly was held on 8 October 1927. During the previous parliament the voting system,which had been a form of proportional representation with multi-member seats and a single transferable vote,was changed to single member constituencies with optional preferential voting. Severe divisions occurred within the Labor Party caucus in the four months prior to the election and a caretaker government composed of the supporters of the Premier of New South Wales and party leader,Jack Lang was in power at the time of the election.
The 1930 New South Wales state election was held on 25 October 1930. The election was conducted in single member constituencies with compulsory preferential voting. The election occurred at the height of the Great Depression and was a landslide victory for the expansionary monetary policies of Jack Lang.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Neutral Bay on Saturday 15 December 1945. It was triggered by the death of the Leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party and Leader of the Opposition,Reginald Weaver,who died a week after suffering a mild heart attack in the Legislative Assembly chamber.
The Lang ministry (1927) or Second Lang ministry or Lang Reconstruction ministry was the 43rd ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 23rd Premier,Jack Lang. This ministry was the second of three ministries where Lang was Premier.
The Bavin ministry was the 44th ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 24th Premier,Thomas Bavin,in a Nationalist coalition with the Country Party,led by Ernest Buttenshaw.
The Stevens–Bruxner ministry (1932–1935) or First Stevens–Bruxner ministry or First Stevens ministry was the 46th ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 25th Premier,Bertram Stevens,in a United Australia Party coalition with the Country Party,that was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Michael Bruxner,DSO. The ministry was one of three occasions when the Government was led by Stevens,as Premier;and one of four occasions where Bruxner served as Deputy Premier.
The Stevens–Bruxner ministry (1935–1938) or Second Stevens–Bruxner ministry or Second Stevens ministry was the 47th ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 25th Premier,Bertram Stevens,in a United Australia Party coalition with the Country Party,that was led by Michael Bruxner. The ministry was the second one of three occasions when the Government was led by Stevens,as Premier;and second of four occasions where Bruxner served as Deputy Premier.
The Stevens–Bruxner ministry (1938–1939) or Third Stevens–Bruxner ministry or Third Stevens ministry was the 48th ministry of the New South Wales Government,and was led by the 25th Premier,Bertram Stevens,in a United Australia Party coalition with the Country Party,that was led by Michael Bruxner. The ministry was the third of three occasions when the Government was led by Stevens,as Premier;and third of four occasions where Bruxner served as Deputy Premier.
Richard Thomas Ball was a politician and engineer in New South Wales,Australia.
William Arthur Parker was an Australian barrister who served as Master in Equity and Master in Lunacy in the Supreme Court of New South Wales from 1918 until 1940.
Cyril Bavin OBE was a New Zealand-born Australian Methodist minister and missionary to Fiji who became General Secretary to the YMCA Migration Department and Honorary Secretary of the Migration Bureau of the Overseas League based in London. He was an advocate of mass migration from Britain to Canada,Australia and New Zealand both as a way to alleviate poverty in the mother country and as a means of building up the economy of these countries.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Gordon on 8 November 1935 because of the resignation of Sir Thomas Bavin who had accepted an appointment as a Judge of the Supreme Court.
