Francis Michael Forde was an Australian politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Australia from 6 to 13 July 1945,in a caretaker capacity following the death of John Curtin. He was deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1932 to 1946 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.
Edward Granville Theodore was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1919 to 1925,as leader of the state Labor Party. He later entered federal politics,serving as Treasurer in the Scullin Labor government.
The Mungana affair involved the sale to the Government of Queensland,Australia,in 1922,of some mining properties in the Chillagoe-Mungana districts of northern Queensland,at a grossly inflated price. At that time,Ted Theodore was Premier of Queensland and William McCormack,was member for Cairns and a former Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. Both men represented the Australian Labor Party. McCormack was later premier of Queensland,from 1925 to 1929,and Theodore entered federal politics in 1927.
The Australian Workers' Union (AWU) is one of Australia's largest and oldest trade unions. It traces its origins to unions founded in the pastoral and mining industries in the late 1880s and it currently has approximately 80,000 members. It has exercised an outsized influence on the Australian Trade Union movement and on the Australian Labor Party throughout its history.
William Neal Gillies was an Australian Labor politician in Queensland who served as premier of Queensland from February to October 1925.
Frank Arthur Cooper was Premier of Queensland from 1942 to 1946 for the Labor Party.
The Queensland Council of Unions (QCU) is a representative,an advocacy group,or peak body,of Queensland trade union organisations,also known as a labour council,in the Queensland,Australia. As of 2020,26 unions and 13 regional branches were affiliated with the QCU. The QCU represents unions covering around 350,000 Queensland workers. It is affiliated with the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). Its offices are located in the suburb of South Brisbane,Queensland. As a peak body for the Queensland trade unions,the objective of the QCU is to achieve industrial,social and political justice for Queensland workers. The management structure of the QCU is made up of a committee of management and an executive of representatives comprised from affiliated unions.
The 1912 Brisbane General Strike in Queensland,Australia,began when members of the Australian Tramway and Motor Omnibus Employees' Association were dismissed when they wore union badges to work on 18 January 1912. They then marched to Brisbane Trades Hall where a meeting was held,with a mass protest meeting of 10,000 people held that night in Market Square.
William Patrick Ludwig was an Australian trade union official,who served as National President of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU),with a brief interruption,from 1989 to 2017. He served two terms from 1989 until 1997 and from 2001 until 2017. He also served as Queensland Branch Secretary Queensland Branch Secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU),from 1988 to 2013.
Edward Grayndler was an Australian trade unionist and politician. He served as general secretary of the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) from 1912 to 1941,the longest term in the union's history.
George Lawson was an Australian trade union official and politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1931 to 1961,representing the seat of Brisbane. He was Minister for Transport in the Curtin government from 1941 to 1943. He had a long involvement in the labour movement in Queensland.
Leonard Joseph Keogh was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served in the House of Representatives from 1969 to 1975 and from 1983 to 1987. He represented the Queensland seat of Bowman and later served as president of the Redland Shire Council from 1991 to 1994.
William Frederick Edmonds was an Australian politician and trade unionist from Queensland. He served briefly as state president of Australian Workers' Union (AWU) before his election to the House of Representatives at the 1946 federal election. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the seat of Herbert until his defeat in 1958.
Gordon Brown was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1932 to 1965,representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was President of the Senate from 1943 to 1951.
Harold Boland was an Australian shearer and trade unionist.
Michael Joseph Kirwan was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Fallon House is a heritage-listed trade union office at 1 Maryborough Street,Bundaberg Central,Bundaberg,Bundaberg Region,Queensland,Australia. It was designed by David Ballinger Goodsir and Harold James Carlyle and built in 1953 by Llewellyn Herbert Edwards. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 7 December 2012.
David Alexander Gledson was an accountant and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Henry Joseph Ryan was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
