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Bill Barry (politician)

Australian politician

Summary

Australian politician

FieldValue
nameBill Barry
officeMinister of Health
term_start21 November 1945
term_end20 November 1947
premierJohn Cain
predecessorWilliam Haworth
successorAlbert Dunstan
term_start217 December 1952
term_end231 March 1955
predecessor2Bill Fulton
successor2Val Doube
office3Minister of Housing
term_start321 November 1945
term_end320 November 1947
premier3John Cain
predecessor3William Haworth
successor3Arthur Warner
office4Minister of Forests
premier4John Cain
term_start421 November 1945
term_end420 November 1947
predecessor4William Everard
successor4Alexander Dennett
constituency_AM5Carlton
assembly5Victorian Legislative
term_start510 July 1932
term_end522 April 1955
predecessor5Robert Solly
successor5Denis Lovegrove
birth_date
birth_placeNorthcote, Victoria
death_date
death_placeFitzroy, Victoria, Australia
restingplaceMelbourne General Cemetery
birthnameWilliam Peter Barry
partyLabor Party
otherpartyAustralian Labor Party (Anti-Communist)
Democratic Labor Party
spouse

|honorific-prefix = |honorific-suffix = Democratic Labor Party William Peter Barry (30 June 1899 – 21 December 1972) was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Carlton from July 1932 until April 1955. Barry was a member of the Labor Party until March 1955, when he was expelled from the party as part of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. He became, with Les Coleman in the Victorian Legislative Council, joint leader of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), a party that in 1957 became the Democratic Labor Party.Robert Murray (1970), The Split, F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, page 249.

Barry was educated at St Brigid's School, North Fitzroy, Victoria and at St George's School, Carlton. He was a tobacco worker and union official before entering Parliament, and was considered close to John Wren, the Victorian entrepreneur.

Political career

Barry was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Carlton in July 1932. The Communist Party opposed Barry at parliamentary elections in the 1940s with some of its leading members, including Ralph Gibson and Dr Gerald O'Dea. Barry was Minister of Transport in the first Cain government in 1943, Minister for Health, for Housing, and for Forests in the second Cain government from 1945 to 1947, and Minister for Health in the third Cain government from 1952 to 1955. He was also a member of the Melbourne City Council from 1939 to 1955.

Barry was expelled from the Labor Party in 1955 and became leader of the Victorian Labor Party (Anti-Communist). He led his group across the floor to support a successful motion of no confidence in John Cain's government. For that perceived act of political treachery, he had thirty pieces of silver thrown at his feet. Noel Counihan's 1955 painting On Parliament Steps, now in the Art Gallery of Ballarat, depicts the incident. Barry was defeated at the election of 1955 by the ALP candidate Denis (Dinny) Lovegrove. As a Democratic Labor Party candidate, Barry unsuccessfully contested the seats of Fitzroy at the 1961 state election, and Greensborough at the 1967 state election.

Peter Kavanagh

Barry's grandson, Peter Kavanagh, was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Western Victoria Region at the 2006 state election, representing the Democratic Labor Party, but was defeated at the 2010 state election. Kavanagh was the first DLP candidate to be elected to the Victorian Parliament since 1955, when Frank Scully won the Electoral district of Richmond.

References

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References

  1. Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955-1958,' in ''Recorder'' (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5.
  2. "Barry, William Peter (Bill) (1899–1972)".
  3. "William Peter Barry". Parliament of Victoria.
  4. [[John Button (Australian politician). John N. Button]] (2004), 'Carlton Politics,' in Peter Yule (ed.), ''Carlton. A History'', Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, page 411.
  5. Bronwyn Watson, "public works", ''[[The Weekend Australian]]'', 4–5 May 2013, Review, p. 11
  6. Ross Fitzgerald (2003), ''The Pope's Battalions. Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split'', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, p.148.
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