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Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher was an Australian politician and trade unionist who served as the fifth prime minister of Australia from 1908 to 1909, 1910 to 1913 and 1914 to 1915. He held office as the leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), and was particularly notable for leading the party to its first federal election victory and first majority government at the 1910 federal election.
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Born 29 August 1862 · Died 22 October 1928 · Q314016
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2008· 1 entry
1992· 1 entry
His home in Gympie (Andrew Fisher's Cottage) was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register
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1972· 1 entry
Was honoured on a postage stamp bearing his portrait issued by Australia Post
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1928· 1 entry
Died 1928-10-22.
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1919· 1 entry
And later presented Pearce with an album of battlefield photos from 1917 and 1918, showing the horrendous conditions experienced by the troops
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1916· 2 entries
Career landmark: Australian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1916–1921).
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And 1917 and issued its final report in 1919
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1914· 4 entries
Career landmark: Treasurer of Australia (1914–1915).
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And 1915 included the War Precautions acts (giving the governor-general power to make regulations for national security), a Trading with the Enemy Act, War Census acts, a Crimes Act, a Belgium Grant Act, and an Enemy Con
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (1914–1915).
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Cook, frustrated by the Labor-controlled Senate's rejection of his legislation, recommended to the new Governor-General Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson that both houses of the parliament be dissolved and elections called
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1913· 1 entry
Which asked for greater federal powers over trade and commerce, corporations, industrial matters, trusts, monopolies, and railway disputes
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1912· 1 entry
Provided compensation for Commonwealth workers
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1911· 3 entries
Fisher declined the offer of honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Glasgow and Birmingham, although he did accept the Freedom of the City from the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Bristol
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For the Coronation of King George V and the Imperial Conference at the same time as New Zealand prime minister Sir Joseph Ward and Governor Lord Islington, granting him use of "The Right Honourable"
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Which aimed to increase the federal government's legislative powers over trade and commerce and over monopolies
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1910· 2 entries
Career landmark: Treasurer of Australia (1910–1913).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (1910–1913).
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1908· 2 entries
Career landmark: Prime Minister of Australia (1908–1909).
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Career landmark: Treasurer of Australia (1908–1909).
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1907· 1 entry
Fisher succeeded him as Labour leader, although Hughes and William Spence also stood for the position
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1904· 3 entries
In the short-lived government of Chris Watson
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George Reid of the Free Trade Party declined to take office, resulting in Labour taking power and Chris Watson becoming Labour's first prime minister for a four-month period in 1904
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Career landmark: Minister for Trade and Tourism (1904–1904).
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1901· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the Australian House of Representatives (1901–1915).
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Fisher was elected to the new federal parliament representing the Division of Wide Bay
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1899· 1 entry
Career landmark: Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1899–1901).
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1896· 2 entries
But returned in 1899 and later that year briefly was a minister in the government of Anderson Dawson
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Following a campaign in which he was charged by his opponent Jacob Stumm with being a dangerous revolutionary and an anti-Catholic, accusations that were propagated by the newspaper Gympie Times
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1893· 2 entries
Was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as Labour member for the Electoral district of Gympie and by the following year had become Labour's deputy leader in the Legislative Assembly
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Was elected to the Queensland Legislative Assembly as a representative of the Labor Party
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1892· 1 entry
Represented Gympie at the Labour-in-Politics Convention in Brisbane
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1891· 3 entries
Became the secretary of the Gympie Joint Labour Committee, the local labour council
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Fisher was elected as the first president of the Gympie branch of the Labour Party
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And was elected president of the related craft union
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1885· 1 entry
Where he continued his involvement with trade unionism
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1884· 1 entry
Chaired a public meeting in Crosshouse in support of the Third Reform Bill
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1879· 2 entries
The only one of the siblings not to live to adulthood
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Aged 17, Fisher was elected secretary of the Crosshouse branch of the Ayrshire Miners' Union
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1863· 1 entry
Was one of ten miners who co-founded a cooperative society
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-08-29.
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