Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor to 1917 then National
President Australian Labor Foundation 1904 |
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11 September 1908 |
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Menzies |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Menzies 11 September–2 November 1908
- Election declared void on petition of Henry Gregory
- Contested Menzies 28 June 1904, 27 October 1905, and 20 November 1908 (by-election)
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Senator 1 July 1910 (elected 13 April)–30 June 1923
- Contested Senate 14 December 1922
Committees
- Member Federal Parliament Recruiting Committee to Inquire into Effect of Liquor on Australian Soldiers 1917–1918
- Member Joint Committee of Public Accounts 1920–1922
Royal Commissions
- After 1922 served on Royal Commission on War Service Homes
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Personal Information |
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7 September 1867 |
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Emu Flat, Clare, South Australia, Australia |
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10 January 1933 |
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Balwyn, Victoria |
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Burial |
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1900 to WA |
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Son of Richard Buzacott, emu farmer, and Margaret McKinnon and brother of Nicholas James (MLC NSW April 1899–June 1933) |
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Married 31 March 1908, Christ Church, Menzies (Church of England) to Mary Lucy Marshall (born circa 1887), daughter of Douglas and Elizabeth Mary Rider
Children: one son
Widowed 10 January 1931 |
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Methodist |
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Educated Stanley Flat Public School
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Miner and union official |
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Agricultural work in South Australia
1891–1898 miner Broken Hill
1900–1910 worked as miner, prospected in Goongarrie fields near Menzies |
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1899–1900 Queensland
1900 to WA
President Menzies branch Amalgamated Workers Association 1901, Amalgamated Miners Association 1903
Secretary Menzies Miners Institute 1906–1907, President 1909
Lived in Melbourne from circa 1912 |
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The Age 12 January 1933.
JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 305.
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. 43-44.
H Radi, P Spearritt and E Hinton, Biographical Register of the New South Wales Parliament 1901-1970, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979.
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament 1901-72, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975.
West Australian, 12 January 1933. |
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