The Commonwealth Liberal Party (CLP, also known as the Deakin–Cook Party, The Fusion, or the Deakinite Liberal Party) was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1917, shortly after Federation.

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Division of Southern Melbourne

The Division of Southern Melbourne was an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

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Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives

In Australia, electoral districts for the Australian House of Representatives are called divisions or more commonly referred to as electorates or seats.

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Fawkner by-election, 1935

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Fawkner on 17 August 1935.

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George Fairbairn (politician)

Sir George Fairbairn (23 March 1855 – 23 October 1943) was a pastoralist and Australian politician. Fairbairn was born in Geelong, Victoria and educated at Geelong Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He rowed for Jesus College Boat Club in 1875 and 1876, the first two years of an 11-year stretch up to 1885 when it won the Cambridge head of the river races. His younger brother Steve went on to become an influential rowing coach at the club. Fairbairn returned to Australia in 1876 and in the following years managed Peak Downs and Barcaldine stations in Queensland. He married Jessie Kate Prell in November 1880 and they had a son and a daughter. In 1890, he took over the family farm at Lara, Victoria and subsequently acquired other farms in Victoria and New South Wales and developed numerous business interests. He was president of the Employers' Federation of Australia for six years. In 1903 Fairbairn was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Toorak which he held until 1906 when he resigned to contest the newly created seat of Fawkner in the Australian House of Representatives. Fairbairn won Fawkner at the 1906 election. Fairbairn was endorsed by the Anti-Socialists, but campaigned as an independent Protectionist. He did not sit with the Anti-Socialists. In 1909, he helped create the union of the non-Labor parties into the "fusion" He lost Fawkner in the 1913 election, following an adverse electoral redistribution, but he was elected to the Senate from 1917 election, but did not stand for re-election at the 1922 election. Fairbairn's first wife died in 1921 and he married Lorna Bessie in 1924. He was Agent-General for Victoria in London from 1924 to 1927. He was knighted in 1926. He was survived by his second wife and his son, Clive Prell Fairbairn. He was grandfather of David Fairbairn, member for Farrer from 1949 to 1975 and government minister from 1962 to 1972. He was uncle of James Fairbairn, a Minister for Civil Aviation from 1939 until his death in a plane crash in 1940.

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George Maxwell (Australian politician)

George Arnot Maxwell (30 April 1859 – 25 June 1935) was a barrister and Australian politician.

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Harold Holt

Harold Edward Holt, (5 August 190817 December 1967), was an Australian politician who served as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1966 until his presumed drowning death in 1967.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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John Pascoe Fawkner

John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Australia.

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Joseph Hannan

Joseph Francis Hannan (1873 – 14 March 1943) was an Australian politician and trade unionist.

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Liberal Party of Australia

The Liberal Party of Australia is a major centre-right political party in Australia, one of the two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-left Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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Nationalist Party (Australia)

The Nationalist Party was an Australian political party.

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Peter Howson (politician)

Peter Howson, CMG (22 May 1919 – 1 February 2009) was an Australian politician.

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Prahran, Victoria

Prahran (/pɛ'ræn/, also known colloquially as "Pran") is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

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South Yarra, Victoria

South Yarra is an inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas.

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St Kilda, Victoria

St Kilda is an inner suburb (neighbourhood) of the metropolitan area of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District.

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Toorak, Victoria

Toorak is an affluent inner suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 5 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Stonnington local government area.

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United Australia Party

The United Australia Party (UAP) was an Australian political party that was founded in 1931 and dissolved in 1945.

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Victoria (Australia)

Victoria (abbreviated as Vic) is a state in south-eastern Australia.

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References

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