The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the
period 1901-1929, the period in which the Parliament operated from
Melbourne. This first volume provides short articles on Australia's
Senators during the first thirty years of the Federal Parliament.
These entries place particular emphasis on the events of a
Senator's parliamentary experience, contributions to debates,
committee work, parliamentary positions as well as ministerial
appointments. It provides also a window on the colonial and
post-colonial societies in which these ninety-nine Senators and
their three Clerks lived and worked. It explains how miners,
merchants, constitutionalists, soldiers, printers, trade unionists,
adventurers and pastoralists became Senators, and how, in an
essentially egalitarian society, they melded together as
Australia's first federal parliamentarians. It tells of their work
as legislators during a period when Australia was making a unique
contribution to democracy itself, and reveals the excitement felt
by conservatives and non-conservatives alike as they shaped the
beginnings of an Australian nation. The contribution of these
Senators to Australian public life was immense. The Federationists,
Richard Baker, John Downer, Thomas Playford, Richard O'Connor,
James Walker, Henry Dobson, William Trenwith, Simon Fraser, Josiah
Symon and William Zeal retain some elemens of notoriety. Others,
such as the South Australian farmer, William Russell, or Charles
Montague Graham, a tailor on the Western Australian goldfields,
were soon forgotten, even in their own time. The Biographical
Dictionary of the Australian Senate reveals to a new generation the
influence and the significance of men who came from all sides of
politics and the social spectrum, and were able parliamentarians
and true representatives of the democratic process. This readable
and authoritative work of reference will provide readers with a
biographical account of all Australian senators, and a history of
the Senate since 1901. It makes a scholarly contribution to
historical and parliamentary knowledge and fills many gaps in our
knowledge of less well-known senators whose careers have not been
fully documented before.
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