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Electorates
- MLA Kalgoorlie 12 March 1921–14 December 1922
- Contested Brownhill–Ivanhoe 27 September 1917
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Personal Information |
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11 September 1874 |
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Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia |
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14 December 1922 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1895 |
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Son of John, miner, and Jane Fraser Duncan |
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Married 21 May 1906, Perth to Bertha Bridger, (born circa 1877 and died 24 November 1964), daughter of Edward and Anne Selves
Children: two sons and one daughter |
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Methodist |
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Left school at early age
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Miner and union official |
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Shearer in Queensland
Took part in 1894 strike
Underground miner at Menzies and from 1897 Kalgoorlie
Worked in South Africa, visited England briefly
1906 with father and brother mining at Kalgoorlie |
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1913 represented Federated Mining Employees’ Association at Australian Labor Federation Conference
1914 volunteered for Australian Imperial Force but rejected because of miner’s phthisis
Conscriptionist, executive member Boulder National Referenda League
1916 secretary Kalgoorlie and Boulder Federated Mining Union
1916–1917 federal president Mining Union and president delegate to the Labor Council
1917 president National Labor Party first formed on goldfields
August 1917 expelled as federal president
November 1917 resigned as secretary local union
Secretary Eastern Goldfields Mining and General Workers’ Union (Industrial Wing of National Labour Party (NLP)
1919–1920 at Wooroloo Sanitorium
Opened stall in Kalgoorlie Municipal Markets |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p.35. |
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