Frederick Michael Daly (13 June 1913 - 2 August 1995) was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician, Minister for Administrative Services in the government of Gough Whitlam and a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1943 to 1975. June 13 is the 164th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (165th in leap years), with 201 days remaining. ... Link title1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australias oldest political party. ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... Hon Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (born 11 July 1916), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was the only Australian Prime Minister to be dismissed by the Governor-General. ... Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

Daly was born in Currabubulla, a small town in northern New South Wales, and was educated at Catholic schools, becoming a clerk in the Department of the Navy and an official of the Federated Clerks Union, a stronghold of the Catholic right wing of the labour movement. At the 1943 election he unexpectedly won Martin, a previously safe United Australia Party seat on the North Shore of Sydney. He rapidly established himself as a skilled and witty debater, and became a protege of Ben Chifley, Labor Prime Minister from 1945. Motto: Orta Recens Quam Pura Nites (Newly Risen, How Brightly You Shine) Nickname: First State, Premier State Other Australian states and territories Capital Sydney Government Governor Premier Const. ... 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... The Division of Martin was a former Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. ... United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia. ... Sydney Harbour looking south from the vicinity of the Sydney Harbour Bridge towards the CBD skyline; the Opera House is visible in the background on the left. ... Rt Hon Ben Chifley Joseph Benedict Chifley (September 22, 1885 - June 13, 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australias most influential Prime Ministers. ... 1945 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Labor was defeated at the 1949 election, at which Daly shifted to the safe Labor seat of Grayndler. Daly spent the next 23 years as an opposition frontbencher - one of a generation of Labor politicians whose career opportunities were greatly reduced by the splits and internal conflicts of the 1950s and 1960s. As a right-wing Catholic, Daly had many sympathies with the right-wing group which left the Labor Party in 1955 and later formed the Democratic Labor Party, but he remained loyal to the party and defeated several attempts by the left to challenge his party endorsement. 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Grayndler is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales, which covers parts of the inner-west and inner south of Sydney. ... 1955 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For alternative meanings, see Democratic Labour Party The Democratic Labor Party (DLP) is a minor political party in Australia. ...

Daly became well known as one of the great humourists of the House. Among his well-known lines were: "the Country Party has two election policies - one for people and one for sheep," and "He (Billy Snedden) couldn't lead a flock of homing pigeons." Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ... The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party, originally called the Country Party, adopting the name of National Country Party in 1975 and adopting its present name in 1982. ... Rt Hon Billy Snedden Sir Billy Mackie Snedden (31 December 1926 _ 27 June 1987), Australian Liberal politician, was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of a stonemason. ...

From 1967 onwards Daly was a strong supporter of Gough Whitlam in his battles with the left wing of the party, and in 1969 Whitlam made him shadow minister for immigration. But his support for retaining some elements of the White Australia Policy in Labor's platform caused Whitlam to remove him from the portfolio. When Labor won the 1972 election - by which time Daly was the longest-serving member of the House - he became Minister for Services and Property (in 1974 renamed Administrative Services). 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hon Gough Whitlam Edward Gough Whitlam (born 11 July 1916), Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia, was the only Australian Prime Minister to be dismissed by the Governor-General. ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... This badge from 1906 shows the use of the expression White Australia at that time The White Australia Power, the policy of excluding all non white people from the Australian continent, was the official policy of all governments and all mainstream political parties in Australia from the 1890s to the... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... See also: List of longest-serving members of the Australian Senate The first House of Representatives was elected on 30 March 1901. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

This put Daly in charge of, among other things, the Australian Electoral Commission, and he tried to pass legislation which would have abolished the malapportionment of electorates in favour of rural areas (see Australian electoral system), but his bills were defeated in the Senate. After the 1974 election he was able to get many of his reforms to the electoral system passed. The Australian Electoral Commission, or the AEC, is the federal government agency in charge of organising and supervising federal elections. ... A How-to-Vote Card from the 2001 Australian federal election. ... Australian Senate chamber Entrance to the Senate The Australian Senate is the upper of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia. ... 1974 is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ...

When the Whitlam government was dismissed by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr in November 1975, Daly announced his retirement at the election which immediately followed. He delayed his announcement to the last minute to ensure that Whitlam's son Tony Whitlam was able to secure endorsement for Grayndler without opposition. The Governor-General of Australia is a position established by the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act to sign legislation into law, appoint judges and ministers and perform many other important duties. ... Sir John Kerr The Right Honourable Sir John Robert Kerr, AK, GCMG, GCVO, QC (September 24, 1914 - April 7, 1991), Australian judge and 18th Governor-General of Australia. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ...

In retirement Daly published two volumes of humorous memoirs, From Curtin to Kerr and The Politician who Laughed. He remained active in the New South Wales Labor Party until his death in 1995, when he was accorded a state funeral at St Brigid's Church, Marrickville attended by a huge crowd of Labor loyalists. 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Rt Hon Arthur Calwell (with young migrant, 1949) Arthur Augustus Calwell (August 28, 1896 _ July 8, 1973) Australian Labor politician, was born in Melbourne, Victoria. ... See also: List of longest-serving members of the Australian Senate The first House of Representatives was elected on 30 March 1901. ... Kim Beazley senior For Kim Beazleys son Kim Christian Beazley, see Kim Beazley. ...