Recent content by Macca1373

Never take a laxative and a sleeping table at the same time.

Well done Manpa. He and John Howard the only two prime ministers to lose their own seats at an election. I'll have another go tomorrow. Cheers

I have also sat in Britain's House of Lords.

I was elected to the Australian parliament and was a member for approximately 8 years.

I was once Chancellor of an Australian university and a residential college was named in my honour. I was on the board of the National Bank of Australasia and P&O. I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Australian government.

My brother committed suicide in 1899. My father committed suicide two years later. My sister died after a long illness in 1908 and his mother in 2012. My other brother shot himself in 1919 after suffering from physical and mental injuries sustained in WW1.

Not Lt Leslie Richmond. After WW1 I practised successfully as a barrister in London. I married a woman I had known as a child. She was the daughter of a prominent squatter family in Victoria. Both of us were keen golfers. I became best known - not for my military career, nor my law career, nor...

No worries Manpa - thks for the extra info. I was born in Victoria but served with the British Army in WW1, rising to the rank of Captain. I was also involved in an Australian "first".

Another job that went the same way as telephone exchange workers. OK, I'll have another go lol. You might have given me a hint in which area to look with your printers' union affiliation. How about the first Prime Minister of Australia from the Labor party - John Watson?

The first time an Australian parliament gaoled someone under parliamentary privilege rules. He was the editor of a newspaper who wrote in a WA newspaper that the then minister for mines had "robbed the prospector to reward the capitalist" after a prospector tried to get the lease cancelled...

Hi all, Stumbled on the forum while surfing the net and have to say it's one of the most informative I've seen. I grew up in Mudgee and my grandparents lived in Hargraves - they had a 99 year lease on the old police station/courthouse. My grandfather was a prospector for most of his life and...