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Sir Thomas Alfred Hiley (25 November 1905 – 6 November 1990) was Treasurer of the Australian state of Queensland from 1957 to 1965. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was educated at Central Brisbane Primary School, Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland. He worked as a Chartered Accountant.

Hiley entered the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as member for Logan on 15 April 1944, a seat he held until switching to the new seat of Coorparoo on 29 April 1950. When Coorparoo was abolished on 28 May 1960, Hiley represented the new district of Chatsworth until retiring on 28 May 1966.

Hiley was Treasurer of Queensland from 12 August 1957 to 23 December 1965 and leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland from 8 July 1949 to 12 August 1954 and again from January to December 1965. He was knighted as a Knight Commander of

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Andrew Dawson (16 July 1863 – 20 July 1910), usually known as Anderson Dawson, was an Australian politician, the Premier of Queensland for one week (1-7 December) in 1899. This premiership was not only the first Australian Labor Party government, it was the first parliamentary socialist government anywhere in the world, and it attracted international newspaper coverage.

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Harry Frederick Walker (15 April 1873 – 23 October 1950) was a company director and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Gympie, Queensland and was educated at One Mile State School, Monkland State School and the local Grammar School.

He was a miner and engine-driver in 1890 and 1897 was part of the Light Horse Jubilee Contingent in London. He fought in the Boer War and by 1906 was the chairman of the Murrarie Bacon Factory and a director of the Wide Bay Cooperative Dairy Co. In 1903, Walker had acquired a farm at Coles Creek, Gympie and by 1920 he was a farmer at Tewantin.

Walker was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for almost 40 years, most of them in opposition to successive Labor governments. He represented two different seats, the first being Wide Bay from 1907 until 1912 and

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Glen Richard Milliner (born 14 April 1948) is an Australian compositor, businessman and politician. He is the son of trade union activist and Labor Senator from Queensland Bertie Milliner. Like his father, he is a qualified typesetter and compositor; he also owns a new agency.

Milliner was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for the electoral district of Everton from 1977-92, and then for the new electoral district of Ferny Grove from 1992-1998. Under the Goss Ministry, he served in the Cabinet variously as Minister for Justice, Minister for Consumer Affairs (until 18 October 1993), Minister for Corrective Services (until 18 October 1993), and Minister for Administrative Services (from 18 October 1993).

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James Christian “Jens” Peterson (11 December 1880 – 30 April 1953) was a builder and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Born in Rockhampton, Queensland, he attended school in Rockhampton and became a builder, working in Rockhampton, Mount Morgan, and Sydney. He was secretary of the Rockhampton Workers Political Organisation in 1898.

From 1929 until 1932 Peterson, now a member of the governing Country and Progressive National Party, was the Home Secretary. As Home Secretary, Mr Peterson was responsible for local government and introduced legislation which gave a home occupier the right to vote in local elections in place of adult franchise.

He also passes legislation which removed children’s courts from the precincts of the Police Court, a move that had been proposed by the Queensland Parliament’s first woman member, Irene Longman.

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Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer (28 December 1819 – 29 March 1898) was an Irish-Australian politician and a Premier of Queensland. Born in Armagh, Ireland, Palmer was educated at Youghal Grammar School and by a private tutor in Dublin. He emigrated to New South Wales in 1838 and worked for many years for Henry Cary Danger on his New England stations, eventually becoming general manager of all Danger’s holdings.

Palmer went to Queensland and took up land, acting as a magistrate in 1865. In 1866, Palmer was elected to Parliament as member for Port Curtis in the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. In 1867 he became Colonial Secretary and Secretary for Public Works in the R. R. Mackenzie ministry, and in 1868 Secretary for Public Lands. On 3 May 1870 Palmer became Premier and Colonial Secretary, and in July 1873 Secretary for Public Works.

Palmer’s ministry was defeated on

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Sir Llewellyn Roy Edwards (born 2 August 1935) is a former Queensland state politician and state Liberal Party leader. He started his working life as an electrician in his family’s electrical business. He graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1965.

Edwards entered Queensland state parliament as the Liberal member for Ipswich in 1972. He was the Minister for Health between 1974-1978 and then held the position of Liberal Party leader, Deputy Premier and Treasurer until 1983 when he retired from State Parliament to take on the role of Chairman and Chief Executive of World Expo ’88, held in Brisbane.

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Frank William Bulcock (6 June 1892 – 19 January 1973) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born at Mount Arapiles, near Horsham, Victoria in 1892. After completing his schooling at local schools he studied veterinary science at Sydney Technical College and won a Department of Agriculture bursary to Wagga Wagga Experiment Farm. In 1914 Bulcock moved to Western Queensland and became involved with the Australian Workers’ Union.

In 1919, premier T. J. Ryan decided to enter federal politics and resigned as the member for Barcoo. Bulcock, representing the Australian Labor Party, easily won the by-election over rival J. P. Boland and held the seat for 23 years. During this time he was Secretary for Agriculture and Stock from 1932 till 1942 and in 1939 was a delegate on a South African study tour. Bulcock resigned from parliament in 1942 to take up

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Arthur Edward Moore (9 February 1876 – 7 January 1963) was an Australian politician. He was the Country and Progressive National Party Premier of Queensland from 1929 to 1932. He was the only Queensland Premier not to come from the ranks of the Labor Party between 1915 and 1957.

Although successful in achieving the unity of the conservative forces in Queensland for an extended period, Moore’s abilities were tested by the onset of the Great Depression and like many other governments in Australia and elsewhere his was unable to endure the formidable challenges it posted.

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William Forgan Smith (15 April 1887 – 25 September 1953) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of the state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership, defence of states’ rights and interest in state development made him something of an archetypal Queensland Premier. He represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Born in Scotland, he apprenticed himself to a painter and decorator in Glasgow. He took an early interest in politics, and his labour movement sympathies were probably influenced by his observations of the poor conditions in the Clydeside shipyards and other working-class areas in Glasgow. He emigrated to Queensland in 1912, settled in Mackay and became involved in trade unionism and Labor politics.

A pragmatic and hard-working politician who rose, step by step, through careful planning, Forgan Smith was not

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