‘Order, Order!’
A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives
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‘Order, Order!’: A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives shines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation.
The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia’s first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce’; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building.
This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.
Details
- ISBN (print):
- 9781760465759
- ISBN (online):
- 9781760465766
- Publication date:
- May 2023
- Imprint:
- ANU Press
- DOI:
- http://doi.org/10.22459/OO.2023
- Series:
- Biography Series
- Disciplines:
- Arts & Humanities: Biography & Autobiography, History; Social Sciences: Politics & International Studies
- Countries:
- Australia
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- Preliminary Pages (PDF, 1.0MB)
- Foreword (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Acknowledgements (PDF, 0.1MB)
- Introduction—Speakers, Deputies and the Clerks: The Revealing Light of Biography? (PDF, 0.1MB) – Stephen Wilks
- Australian House of Representatives—the Office of Speaker (PDF, 0.1MB) – Justin Baker
- Australian House of Representatives—the Office of Deputy Speaker (PDF, 0.1MB) – Catherine Cornish
- Australian House of Representatives—the Office of Clerk (PDF, 0.3MB) – Natalie Cooke
Biographical Entries
- Adermann, Sir Charles Frederick: Chairman of Committees 1950–1958 (PDF, 0.3MB) – John Hawkins doi
- Andrew, John Neil: Speaker 1998–2004 (PDF, 0.8MB) – Clare Parker doi
- Aston, Sir William John (Bill): Speaker 1967–1972 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Donald Boadle doi
- Bamford, Frederick William: Chairman of Committees 1923–1925 (PDF, 0.3MB) – D. W. Hunt doi
- Barlin, Lyndal McAlpin (Lyn): Clerk 1991–1997 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Nicholas Brown doi
- Bayley, James Garfield: Chairman of Committees 1926–1929 (PDF, 0.3MB) – David Carment doi
- Bell, Sir George John: Speaker 1934–1940 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Stefan Petrow doi
- Berinson, Joseph Max (Joe): Chairman of Committees 1975 (PDF, 1.1MB) – Bobbie Oliver doi
- Bishop, Bronwyn Kathleen: Speaker 2013–2015 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Sylvia Marchant doi
- Blake, Douglas Maurice (Doug): Clerk 1982–1985 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Kay Walsh doi
- Bowden, George James: Chairman of Committees 1959–1961 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Sylvia Marchant and B. J. Costar doi
- Browning, Alan Robert: Clerk 1985–1991 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Derek Drinkwater doi
- Burke, Anna Elizabeth: Speaker 2012–2013 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Sylvia Marchant doi
- Cameron, Archie Galbraith: Speaker 1950–1956 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Causley, Ian Raymond: Deputy Speaker 2002–2007 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Clare Parker doi
- Chanter, John Moore: Chairman of Committees 1901–1903, 1914–1922 (PDF, 0.3MB) – G. N. Hawker doi
- Child, Gloria Joan: Speaker 1986–1989 (PDF, 1.0MB) – Sylvia Marchant doi
- Clark, Joseph James (Joe): Chairman of Committees 1946–1949 (PDF, 0.4MB) – N. T. McLennan doi
- Cope, James Francis (Jim): Speaker 1973–1975 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Joshua Black doi
- Duffy, Charles Gavan: Clerk 1901–1917 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Edwards, Ronald Frederick (Ron): Deputy Speaker 1989–1993 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Michael Hogan doi
- Elder, David Russell: Clerk 2014–2019 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Richard E. Reid doi
- Fowler, James Mackinnon: Chairman of Committees 1913–1914 (PDF, 0.2MB) – G. N. Hawker doi
- Gale, Walter Augustus: Clerk 1917–1927 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Bobbie Oliver doi
- Green, Frank Clifton: Clerk 1937–1955 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Groom, Sir Littleton Ernest: Speaker 1926–1929 (PDF, 0.4MB) – David Carment doi
- Halverson, Robert George (Bob): Speaker 1996–1998 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Judith Brett doi
- Harris, Ian Charles: Clerk 1997–2009 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Nicholas Brown doi
- Hawker, David Peter: Speaker 2004–2007 (PDF, 0.7MB) – Clare Parker doi
- Holder, Sir Frederick William: Speaker 1901–1909 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Haydon Manning doi
- Jenkins, Sir George Henry: Clerk 1901 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Jenkins, Henry Alfred (Harry): Speaker 1983–1985 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Joshua Black doi
- Jenkins, Henry Alfred (Harry): Speaker 2008–2011 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Joshua Black doi
- Johnson, Leslie Royston (Les): Chairman of Committees 1983 (PDF, 0.5MB) – John Hawkins doi
- Johnson, Sir William Elliot: Speaker 1913–1914, 1917–1922 (PDF, 0.3MB) – G. N. Hawker doi
- Lucock, Philip Ernest: Chairman of Committees 1961–1972, 1976–1977 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Marija Taflaga doi
- Mackay, George Hugh: Speaker 1932–1934 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Elaine Brown doi
- Makin, Norman John: Speaker 1929–1931 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Wilks and David Lowe doi
- Martin, Stephen Paul: Speaker 1993–1996 (PDF, 0.4MB) – John Hawkins doi
- McDonald, Charles: Speaker 1910–1913, 1914–1917 (PDF, 0.2MB) – Brian F. Stevenson doi
- McGrath, David Charles: Chairman of Committees 1929–1931 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Peter Love doi
- McGregor, John Robert: Clerk 1927 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- McLeay, Sir John (Jack): Speaker 1956–1966 (PDF, 0.4MB) – L. M. Barlin doi
- McLeay, Leo Boyce: Speaker 1989–1993 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Michael Hogan doi
- Millar, Percival Clarence (Clarrie): Chairman of Committees 1978–1983 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Elaine Brown doi
- Nairn, Walter Maxwell: Speaker 1940–1943 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Lenore Layman doi
- Nehl, Garry Barr: Deputy Speaker 1996–2001 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Tracey Arklay doi
- Parkes, Ernest William: Clerk 1927–1937 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Derek Drinkwater doi
- Parkes, Norman James: Clerk 1971–1976 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Derek Drinkwater doi
- Pettifer, John Athol (Jack): Clerk 1977–1982 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Stephen Holt doi
- Poynton, Alexander (Alec): Chairman of Committees 1910–1913 (PDF, 0.3MB) – John Hawkins and Rob Van Den Hoorn doi
- Prowse, John Henry (Jack): Chairman of Committees 1934–1943 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Lenore Layman and Betty Carter doi
- Riordan, William James (Bill): Chairman of Committees 1943–1946 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Stephen Wilks and A. N. Preston doi
- Rosevear, John Solomon (Sol): Speaker 1943–1949 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Frank Bongiorno doi
- Salmon, Charles Carty (Carty): Speaker 1909–1910 (PDF, 0.3MB) – John Hawkins doi
- Scholes, Gordon Glen: Speaker 1975 (PDF, 0.9MB) – Jenny Hocking doi
- Scott, Bruce Craig: Deputy Speaker 2012–2016 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Brian F. Stevenson doi
- Sinclair, Ian McCahon: Speaker 1998 (PDF, 0.8MB) – Tracey Arklay doi
- Slipper, Peter Neil: Speaker 2011–2012 (PDF, 0.4MB) – Brian F. Stevenson doi
- Smith, Anthony David Hawthorn (Tony): Speaker 2015–2021 (PDF, 0.6MB) – Stephen Wilks doi
- Snedden, Sir Billy Mackie: Speaker 1976–1983 (PDF, 0.5MB) – Kay Walsh and Bernie Schedvin doi
- Tregear, Albert Allan: Clerk 1955–1958 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Kay Walsh doi
- Turner, Sir Alan George: Clerk 1959–1971 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Patricia Clarke doi
- Watt, William Alexander: Speaker 1923–1925 (PDF, 0.3MB) – John Hawkins and John Anderson doi
- Wright, Bernard Clive: Clerk 2009–2013 (PDF, 0.3MB) – Derek Drinkwater doi
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