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Godfrey Morgan (29 July 1875 – 29 August 1957) was an Australian journalist, politician, and farmer. He served on the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1909 until 1938, first for the electoral district of Murilla and then for the electoral district of Dalby. The locality of Morganville in the North Burnett Region is named after him.

Morgan was born in Landsborough, Victoria. When he was young his father began a newspaper at Donald, Victoria, and when his father died in 1891 Morgan took over management of the paper. In 1908, after the government of Queensland requested settlers to come help fight a prickly pear infestation, the Morgan family moved to a 7000-acre plot of land named Arubial, on the Condamine River.

In 1909 Morgan was elected first to the Murilla Shire Council and then to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, representing the seat of Murilla. When Murilla

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Vincent Clare “Vince” Gair (25 February 1901 – 11 November 1980) 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 Australian 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.

Gair was born in Rockhampton to John Alexander and Catherine Mary Gair, who were founding members of the Labor Party in Queensland in the 1890s. He began work with the Department of Railways upon the family’s move to Dutton Park, Queensland. in 1916 he joined the Australian Labor Party.

Under Gair’s premiership, reforms were carried out in worker’s compensation, sick leave, and annual leave. Long-service leave was also

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John Henry “Johnno” Mann (30 June 1896 – 7 January 1973) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Mann was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, and was educated at Mount Morgan Boys Central School. He worked at a variety of jobs including stockman, wharfie, meatworker, and cane cutter before moving to Brisbane during the late years of the depression.

In January 1936, the Labor member for the state seat of Brisbane, Robert Funnell, unexpectedly died. Mann was chosen by the party to contest the April by-election which he easily won and went on to represent the electorate for over 33 years until his retirement from politics on 17 May 1969.

Mann was Chairman of Committees from 3 August 1944 until 10 October 1950 at which time he was appointed Speaker of the Queensland Parliament. He ran the Office of the Speaker with forceful dignity and years later

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Thomas Andrew “Tom” Foley (26 April 1886 – 5 February 1973) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Charters Towers and was educated at Charters Towers State School and later studied at night school. He held various jobs before becoming a contractor, supplying timber sleepers to the railways. By 1919 he had become an organiser for the Australian Workers’ Union.

During the next 41 years, he held the seats of Leichhardt, Normanby, and Belyando. During his time in parliament, he held the roles of Secretary for Mines, Health and Home Affairs, Public Lands and Irrigation, and Labour and Industry. Foley also held the role of Government Whip from 1932 till 1926.

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Edward Michael “Ned” Hanlon (1 October 1887 – 15 January 1952) was an Australian politician, who was Premier of Queensland from 1946 to 1952. Hanlon was born in Brisbane where he lived throughout his life. After leaving school he worked in the railways and soon became a union official. In the 1912 Brisbane General Strike he played a prominent part as a militant.

He entered parliament in 1926, representing the Labor Party as member for Ithaca. After two decades and several cabinet portfolios he became Queensland’s premier, once Frank Cooper had retired. Over the years Hanlon’s outlook mellowed and he shifted to the political right. Having begun as a union militant, he ended up as Premier sending the police to suppress union demonstrations during the 1948 Queensland Railway strike.

He died in office and was succeeded by Vince Gair, the last leader of the state Labor Party

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Hubert Ebenezer Sizer (7 August 1893 – 4 May 1973) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1918 to 1935, representing Nundah until 1923 and Sandgate thereafter. He was a member of the Nationalist, the United Party of Queensland, and then the Country and Progressive National parties.

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Robert Carl Ketter (born 22 May 1945) is an Australian politician who has been a member of the House of Representatives. He was previously active in state politics from 1974 when he was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly, representing the seat of Flinders. His father, Bob Katter Sr., was also a politician.

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Clem Jones (16 January 1918 – 15 December 2007), a surveyor by profession, was the longest serving Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Queensland, representing the Australian Labor Party from 1961 to 1975. He was Chair of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission from 1975 to 1978. He was a successful businessman and philanthropist.

During Jones’ 15 years in office as the head of the Brisbane City Council, Brisbane underwent considerable change. Through the 1960s Jones successfully led the council to develop a town plan, seal roads, improve drainage and connect sewers to most of the city. The city council, under his stewardship, purchased city properties to build underground car parks, which were then topped with public parks and gardens.

In the suburbs, land was acquired for open space and parklands. Work started on the development of the Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Controversially, Jones announced in 1968 the conversion of

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John Desmond Herbert (11 February 1925 – 30 October 1978) was an Australian politician, who was the Liberal Party member for the electoral district of Sherwood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1978. He was born in Brisbane and in 1943 enlisted in the Royal Australian Navy. After his discharge in 1946 he worked as a bank clerk and was involved in the anti-bank nationalisation campaign of 1947.

He was a member of the Liberal Party, and was a member of the party’s state executive from 1950 until 1956 when he successfully ran for election in the electoral role of Sherwood. He served in various ministerial positions from 1965 to 1978, holding the portfolios of labour, tourism, sport and welfare services.

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Sir Alan Roy Fletcher (1907-1991) was a politician in Queensland, Australia and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born at Pittsworth, Queensland and educated at Pittsworth State School and Scots College in Warwick. He was engaged in farming at Mount Tyson, Queensland.

Fletcher was a member of the Country Party and served as a councillor in the Pittsworth Shire Council from 1945 to 1955 and was its chairman for nine years. He was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly in the electoral district of Cunningham at the 1953 election, holding his seat until retirement at the 1974 election.

During his 21 years in state politics, he held a number of important roles: Speaker (1957-60), Minister for Lands and Irrigation (1960-68), and Minister for Education and Cultural Activities (1968-74). In 1972, Alan Fletcher was knighted for services to the parliament and the people of

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