Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Founding secretary
Northcote Political Labor Council branch
Victoria
Acted as campaign director for State and Federation election candidates |
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27 October 1905 |
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Boulder |
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Electorates
- MLA Boulder, 27 October 1905–18 October 1948
Office
- Minister for Mines, 7 October 1911–17 July 1916
- Minister for Railways, 7 October 1911–23 November 1914; for Water Supplies 23 November 1914–17 July 1916
- Leader of Opposition, 9 May 1917–17 April 1924 and 23 April 1930–24 April 1933
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Forests 17 April 1924–23 April 1930, 24 April 1933–19 August 1936 (resigned leadership 16 August 1936)
Historical Notes
- Father of the House, March 1939–October 1948
- Served longest terms ever as Australian Labor Party parliamentary leader (19 years) and ALP Premier (nine years)
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Personal Information |
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21 April 1873 |
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Woodstock near Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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18 October 1948 |
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Mt Lawley, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Karrakatta, Western Australia |
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1904 to WA |
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Son of Philip, farmer and Catherine Bourke |
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Married 27 June 1900, Northcote, Victoria to Ellen Heagney, daughter of Edward and Catherine Dunaford
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Catholic |
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Educated locally, left school at 16 years
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Union official |
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Mining in Victoria (Steiglitz near Ballarat) and NSW
Construction foreman, Greater Melbourne Sewage Co. at Northcote
1904-1905 mine worker Perseverance Goldmining Company |
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Phillip on birth certificate
Member, Boulder branch Amalgamated Workers’ Association
Vice-president, Goldfields TLC, 1905
Delegate, All-Australia Trades Union Conference, Melbourne, 1921
Trustee, Amalgamated Sawmill Employees’ Union of Workers (Coastal District), 1931 |
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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, WA, 2001, p. 50.
Metropolitan Cemetery Board website Accessed 18 August 2016. |
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The Australian Encyclopaedia (1958)
Battye I, 320.
David Black, 'Collier, Philip (1873–1948)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/collier-philip-5732/text9701, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 17 December 2015.
Courtney, 52.
Crowley, 215, 227–32, 269–71, 274
West Australian, 19, 27 October 1948
Westralian Worker, 29 October 1948
Who's Who in Australia (1927–28–1947) |