Alfred Dohring MLA

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Alfred Dohring (11 July 1896 – 13 July 1982) was an Australian politician and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He was born in Alpha, Queensland, and was the member for Roma from 1953 to 1957, representing the first Australian Labor Party and then the breakaway Queensland Labor Part in 1957.

On Thursday 29 July 1954 Dohring fell 100 feet from the centre span of the Story Bridge to the Brisbane River below. An officer on the freighter Daylesford heard the splash and dispatched two seamen in a ship’s boat who dragged the unconscious Dohring from the water. He suffered extensive injuries and was placed in an iron lung at the Brisbane General Hospital.

When he regained consciousness, he told police he must have blacked-out as he had no memory of the fall. Doctors said he was lucky to have survived such a fall. By late

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