Everything about Albert Hawke totally explained
Albert ("Bert") Redvers George Hawke (
3 December 1900 in
Kapunda,
South Australia -
1989) was
Premier of Western Australia from
1953 to
1959.
Bert Hawke's brother, Clement Hawke, a Congregational minister was the father of former
Prime Minister Bob Hawke. His parents were James Renfrey Hawke and Eliza Ann Blinman Pascoe.
Career
Leaving school at the age of 13, he took up an apprenticeship as a clock-maker and jeweller before working in a lawyers office and joining the
Australian Labor Party at 15. At the age of 23 in the
1924 elections he won the seat of
Burra-Burra in the
South Australian House of Assembly, making him the youngest person to have won a seat in that parliament.
After losing the seat by just 11 votes in the following
1927 election, he moved to
Western Australia in
1928, becoming a country organiser for the ALP. In
1933 he caused a major political upset by defeating the sitting Premier Sir
James Mitchell in the seat of Northam in the
Western Australian Legislative Assembly by 460 votes. Mitchell had held the seat for 28 years previously. Hawke held the seat himself for 35 years until the
1968 general elections at which time he didn't nominate.
During his Western Australian parliamentary career he was appointed Minister for Employment and Labour in 1936 in the
Collier and
Willcock governments. He also held the positions of Minister for Labour and Industrial Development (
1939), Minister for Works, Water Supplies and Industrial Development (
1943). After Labor's defeat in the
1947 elections he held various shadow portfolios before becoming
Leader of the Opposition on
July 3 1951 after
Frank Wise resigned.
In the
23 February 1953 elections he led Labor to victory over the two-term Liberal government of
Sir Ross McLarty. He then took up the positions of Premier-Treasurer and Minister for Child Welfare and Industrial Development. In June 1953, Hawke attended the coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II in
London.
Labor lost the March
1959 elections to
David Brand's Liberals, but he stayed on as opposition leader until
1968 when he retired from politics and returned to live in South Australia.
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