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William Hegney
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Birth | | Date: 11 January 1896
Place: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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Parents | | Son of James Hegney, farmer, publican then blacksmith and striker with Western Australian Government Railways, and Ellen Murray
Brother of James Hegney, boilermaker and politician |
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Marriage and Family | | Married 27 November 1926, St Joseph’s Church, Subiaco to Vera Margaret Brown (born circa 1897), daughter of Peter Brown and Esther Eliza Coulthard
Children: one son and one daughter
Widowed 16 April 1971 |
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Death | | Date: 13 October 1982
Place: Nazareth House, Hilton, Western Australia
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Religion | | Catholic |
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Education | | Educated St Brigid’s School, Midland Junction |
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Occupation | | Union secretary |
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Employment History | | Junior clerk with Taxation Department 1 July 1912–1917
Then went shearing and worked in other occupations in Murchison and North-West
In 1920 became organiser and secretary for Australian Workers' Union (AWU) in Northam (for the south-west and wheatbelt) and in the north
Secretary Construction and Federal Division AWU 1928 |
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House | | MLA |
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Party | | Labor
Officer State Executive and State Disputes Committee 1928–1939 |
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Date Elected | | 18 March 1939 |
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Speeches | | Search for speeches by William Hegney |
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Year Retired/Resigned | | 1968 |
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Electorate | | Pilbara |
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Parliamentary Service | | Electorates
- MLA Pilbara 18 March 1939–March 1950 (in 1947 fresh election ordered by Court of Disputed Returns but re-elected 2 August 1947)
- MLA Mt Hawthorn 25 March 1950–23 March 1968
Office
- Minister for Native Welfare, Labour and Prices (until 13 May 1954) 23 February 1953–20 April 1956
- Minister for Education and Labour 20 April 1956–2 April 1959
- Chairman Parliamentary Labor Party December 1943–1953
Committees
- Member Select Committee inquiring on the COR Ltd (Private) Bill 1940
- Member Select Committee on Wool Handling at Appraisement Centres 1945
- Member Select Committee on the Disposal of Potatoes in WA 1949
- Member Select Committee on the Ways and Means of Obtaining Adequate Meat Supplies in the Metropolitan Area 1950
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Background/Membership | | Commonwealth Councillor for AWU
Attended as adviser International Labour Organisation Conference, Geneva, 1952 |
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References | | Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, p. 116
West Australian, 22 March 1939.
Who's Who in Australia, (1950) |
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