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Hon. Francis Henry “Frank” Walsh (6 July 1897-18 May 1968) was Premier of South Australia from 10 March 1965 – 1 June 1967. Jump to: navigation, search July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ...
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One of eight children, Walsh was born into an Irish Catholic family in O’Halloran Hill, Adelaide. After an education at Christian Brothers College, Walsh left school at fifteen to work as a stonemason, which sparked his interest in the trade union movement. Walsh would serve as President of the South Australian Stonemason’s Society and the national stonemason body and as a member of the Trades and Labour Council of South Australia, while still finding the time to continue working as a stonemason and marry on 29 December 1925. Irish Catholics are persons of predominantly Irish descent who adhere to the Roman Catholic faith. ...
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Walsh first stood for the Australian Labor Party in the safe conservative electorate of Mitcham at the 1938 state election and while losing to the Liberal and Country League (LCL) member, impressed senior ALP figures sufficiently to gain endorsement for the safe Labor seat of Goodwood (renamed Edwardstown in 1956). Walsh duly entered parliament in 1941 and was elected as Deputy Opposition Leader of the state parliamentary Labor Party in 1949, when it became clear no one else wanted the job. Labor had by then been in opposition in South Australia since 1933 as the LCL, led by Sir Thomas Playford, ruled South Australia through a combination of strong economic development and gerrymander. In response, many South Australian Labor politicians despaired of ever being in government and believed the Deputy Opposition Leader to be a thankless, poor paying job. Jump to: navigation, search The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ...
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The Liberal and Country League (LCL) was a major political party in South Australia throughout its forty year existence. ...
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Sir Thomas Playford KCMG (July 5, 1896 – 16 June 1981) served as Premier of South Australia from November 5, 1938 to March 10, 1965, which at 26 years and 125 days, remains a British Commonwealth record for the longest time someone has served as a democratically elected national or regional...
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Following the split in the Labor Party in 1955, Walsh, along with Opposition leader Mick O'Halloran, resisted numerous overtures to join the heavily Catholic Democratic Labor Party (DLP) during the 1950s. Their opposition to the DLP ensured that the DLP were not the same influence in South Australian politics that they were in Victoria and Queensland. For alternative meanings, see Democratic Labour Party The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) is a minor political party in Australia. ...
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Following the sudden death of O’Halloran in 1960, Walsh was narrowly elected to the Labor leadership ahead of Don Dunstan and followed O’Halloran’s lead of preferring co-operation with the LCL to criticising them and maintained friendly relations with Playford, who treated him in a somewhat avuncular manner. Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Donald Allan Dunstan AC QC (September 21, 1926 - 6 February 1999), Australian politician, was Premier of South Australia between June 1, 1967 and April 17, 1968 and then subsequently between June 2, 1970 and February 15, 1979. ...
Following Labor’s victory at the 1965 election, Walsh became the first Labor Premier of South Australia in 33 years and the first Catholic Premier of South Australia. He also found himself the head of an inexperienced government as no current ALP parliamentarian had previously served as a minister, leaving him no choice but to entrust sensitive portfolios to men more used to criticising government actions. Walsh himself took the portfolios of Treasurer and Minister for Immigration.
Walsh’s term as Premier was marked by increased spending on public education and the implementation of far reaching social welfare and Aboriginal Affairs legislation, although many of these changes were spearheaded by Dunstan and the socially conservative Walsh may well have personally opposed some of these moves.
Walsh was never comfortable dealing with the media, particularly television, and his ascension to Premier only exacerbated these problems. A master of malapropisms and using complex words in the wrong context, Walsh regularly had journalists, Hansard reporters and political ally and foe alike bewildered by his statements. To give but one example, Walsh once said in parliament "In this manner, Mr Speaker, the government has acted as if this were a diseased estate. It's not sufficiently elasticated... The government is suffering from a complete lack of apathy in the case."
His unease with the media was seen in stark contrast to his Attorney-General, Dunstan, who would prove to be a media relations master throughout his later terms as Premier.
Walsh's awkwardness with the media was further highlighted following Playford’s retirement as opposition leader and his replacement by 37 year old Steele Hall. A sagging economy and poor polling also combined to convince local ALP heavyweights that Labor could not win the next election with Walsh as Premier. Things came to a head in January 1967 when South Australian Labor power broker Clyde Cameron publicly thanked Walsh for making the noble decision to retire to make way for a younger person. This was news to Walsh, who had made no such decision. After initially digging in his heels, Walsh eventually announced his retirement two weeks later but not before attempting to manoeuvre his protégé Des Corcoran into the Premiership ahead of Dunstan. Raymond Steele Hall was Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970, Senator for South Australia from 1975 to 1977 and federal member for Boothby constituency from 1981 to 1996. ...
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James Desmond Des Corcoran (1929 - 3 January 2004), Australian politician, was Premier of South Australia between February 15, 1979 and September 18, 1979. ...
Walsh died less than two months after his retirement at the 1968 election and was given a state funeral. While Walsh, who was considered “kindly, generous and unpretentious” by friend and foe, should be given credit for his long parliamentary service and his support for unionism and working class families, he would frequently infuriate fellow party members by habitually becoming obsessed with trivial issues to the detriment of affairs of state.
Sir Thomas Playford KCMG (July 5, 1896 – 16 June 1981) served as Premier of South Australia from November 5, 1938 to March 10, 1965, which at 26 years and 125 days, remains a British Commonwealth record for the longest time someone has served as a democratically elected national or regional...
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Donald Allan Dunstan AC QC (September 21, 1926 - 6 February 1999), Australian politician, was Premier of South Australia between June 1, 1967 and April 17, 1968 and then subsequently between June 2, 1970 and February 15, 1979. ...
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