Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs GCB GCMG (6 August 1855–12 February 1948), Australian judge and politician, was the ninth Governor-General of Australia and the first Australian to occupy that post. Isaacs was born in Melbourne, the son of a Jewish tailor who had arrived in Victoria from Britain the previous year. His family was originally of Polish-Jewish origin. When he was four he moved with his family to Yackandandah in northern Victoria and then to nearby Beechworth. He went to the local state school where he displayed his academic ability by becoming dux of his class. After finishing high school he stayed in Beechworth as a pupil-teacher. Isaac Isaacs File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia is the representative of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. ... is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 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In 1875 he moved to Melbourne and found work at the Prothonotary's Office of the Law Department. In 1876, while still working full-time, he started studying law part-time at the University of Melbourne. He graduated in 1880 and became a Master of Laws in 1883. In 1888 he married Deborah Jacobs with whom he had two daughters. This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... The University of Melbourne, is a public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. ...

In 1892 Isaacs was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as a radical liberal. In 1893 he became Solicitor-General. He was the member for Bogong from May 1892 until May 1893 and between June 1893 and May 1901. In 1897 he was elected to the Convention, that drafted the Australian Constitution, where he supported those arguing for a more democratic draft. For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see June (disambiguation). ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... A constitutional convention is a gathering of delegates for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. ... The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (in full, An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia) is the primary constitutional text of the Commonwealth of Australia. ...

Isaacs was elected to the first federal Parliament in 1901 to the seat of Indi as a critical supporter of Edmund Barton and his Protectionist government. He was one of a group of backbenchers pushing for more radical policies and he earned the dislike of many of his colleagues through what they saw as his aloofness and rather self-righteous attitude to politics. The main entrance to Parliament House in Canberra, with the flag mast visible. ... The Division of Indi is an electoral division in the Australian House of Representatives. ... Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, QC (18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia. ... The Protectionist Party was a political party in Australia from the 1880s until 1909. ...

Alfred Deakin appointed Isaacs Attorney-General in 1905 but he was a difficult colleague and in 1906 Deakin was keen to get him out of politics by appointing him to the High Court bench. He was the first serving Minister to resign from the Parliament. On the High Court he joined H.B. Higgins as a radical minority on the Court in opposition to the Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith. He served on the Court for 24 years, acquiring a reputation as a learned radical but uncollegial justice. Alfred William Deakin (3 August 1856 – 7 October 1919), Australian politician, was a leader of the movement for Australian federation and later second Prime Minister of Australia. ... High Court entrance The High Court of Australia is the final court of appeal in Australia, the highest court in the Australian court hierarchy. ... Hon H.B. Higgins For the fictional character Henry Higgins see Pygmalion or My Fair Lady. ... Sir Samuel Griffith Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (June 21, 1845 - August 9, 1920), Australian politician and judge, was the principal author of the Constitution of Australia. ...

In 1930 the Labor Prime Minister, James Scullin, appointed Isaacs, by this time aged 75, as Chief Justice. Shortly afterwards, however, Scullin decided to appoint an Australian as Governor-General and offered the post to Isaacs. This sparked a storm of protest from the Nationalist Opposition and the conservative press. Scullin had to travel to London to personally advise King George V to make the appointment. The King reluctantly agreed to it. James Henry Scullin (September 18, 1876 – January 28, 1953), Australian Labor politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia. ... The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party formed in 1917 from a merger of pro-conscription members of the Labor Party (who had been operating under the banner National Labor after their earlier split with the Labor party) with the Commonwealth Liberal Party. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...

With Australia in the depths of the Great Depression Isaacs agreed to a reduction in salary and conducted the office with great frugality. He gave up his official residences in Sydney and Melbourne and most official entertaining. He was the first Governor-General to live permanently at Government House, Canberra. This was well-received with the public as was Isaacs's image of rather austere dignity. For other uses, see The Great Depression (disambiguation). ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... Government House from the lookout on Lady Denman Drive Government House, Canberra, commonly known as Yarralumla, is the official residence of the Governor-General of Australia, located in the suburb of Yarralumla, Canberra. ...

Although Isaacs was seen as a Labor appointment the Scullin government fell at the end of 1931 and the rest of Isaacs's term was spent under the United Australia Party government of Joseph Lyons. There was some initial chill between Isaacs and the politicians who had opposed his appointment but Lyons treated him with courtesy and he behaved with scrupulous propriety. The United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia. ... Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939), Australian politician, tenth Prime Minister of Australia. ...

Isaacs was 81 when his term ended in 1936, but his public life was far from over. He remained active in various causes for another decade and wrote frequently on matters of constitutional law. In the 1940s he became embroiled in controversy with the Jewish community both in Australia and internationally through his outspoken opposition to Zionism. Isaacs was not particularly religious but he insisted that Jewishness was a religious identity and not a national or ethnic one. He opposed the notion of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The 1940s decade ran from 1940 to 1949. ... This article is about Zionism as a movement, not the History of Israel. ... This article is about the geographical area known as Palestine. ...

Isaacs opposed Zionism partly because he disliked nationalism of all kinds and saw Zionism as a form of Jewish national chauvinism—and partly because he saw the Zionist agitation in Palestine as disloyalty to the British Empire to which he was devoted. When Zionist terrorists blew up the King David Hotel in 1946 he wrote that "the honour of Jews throughout the world demands the renunciation of political Zionism". He died in February 1948 and thus did not live to see the creation of the State of Israel. The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... The hotel after the bombing The King David Hotel bombing (July 22, 1946) was a bombing attack against the British government of Palestine by members of Irgun — a militant Zionist organization. ...

External links

• University of Melbourne: Isaac Alfred Isaacs
• National Library of Australia: Papers of Sir Isaac Issacs
• Isaac Isaacs Victorian Parliamentary Profile
• Indi Election Results 1901

Justices of the High Court of Australia
Chief Justices of Australia
Griffith · Knox · Isaacs · Gavan Duffy · Latham · Dixon · Barwick · Gibbs · Mason · Brennan · Gleeson
Puisne Justices
Barton · O'Connor · Higgins · Powers · Piddington · Rich · Starke · Evatt · McTiernan · Williams · Webb · Fullagar · Kitto · Taylor · Menzies · Windeyer · Owen · Walsh · Stephen · Jacobs · Murphy · Aickin · Wilson · Deane · Dawson · Toohey · Gaudron · McHugh · Gummow · Kirby · Hayne · Callinan · Heydon · Crennan · Kiefel
current Justices are in italics

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