Roger Nott

Roger Bede Nott CBE ( born October 20, 1908 in Gulgong, Mid- Western Region, New South Wales, † 28 September 2000 in Dunedoo, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales) was an Australian politician of the Australian Labor Party in New South Wales and in the Northern Territory.

Life

Political career in New South Wales

Nott, who originally worked as a farmer, began his political career in 1941 when he ran for the Australian Labor Party for a mandate in the conservative dominated Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. The Elected to succeed him in the constituency of Liverpool Plains with a majority of only 155 votes, which the Country Party lost this seat after 25 years in a laboratory candidates. Nott represented the interests of the constituency until 1961.

In 1954 he was appointed by Prime Minister Joseph Cahill for the first time in the government of the state and took over from the Labor Party to resign forced - maverick Clive Evatt office as Minister without Portfolio. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was appointed in 1956 as Minister of lands and mines and in 1957 also Minister of Agriculture, where he benefited from his practical professional experience. He was a member of the Cabinets of Cahill and his successor Robert Heffron until 1961.

Political career in the Northern Territory

On April 1, 1961, he took on the Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies was the appointment as Administrator of the Northern Territory.

This led him especially the challenge to this office as well as the potential importance of the territory in mining, agriculture and tourism. In his office he always gave himself to the citizen and was known that he took off his jacket at public events and all other exhorted, to do so. This was only rejected by his predecessor James Clarence Archer, the one never saw in public without a coat. Notts clothing style long pants with langärmlichen shirts became famous with the populace as " Territory Rig ".

His work as an administrator was especially for the meat industry in the Northern Territory of importance and led to the establishment of slaughterhouses for export as well as the construction of a network of roads and paths for cattle transports.

Two years before the official end of his tenure as Administrator of the Northern Territory on August 20, 1964 he was Administrator of Norfolk Island, an Australian external territory in the Pacific Ocean. He held this position until 1966.

In 1968 he returned to political life in order to run for a seat in the Australian House of Representatives. After this candidacy was unsuccessful, he retired from politics in 1970 finally

For his contributions to the policy of Australia, and for the Commonwealth of Nations, he was in 1977 Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

External links and sources

• Biography ( rulers.org )
• Biography Parliament of New South Wales

• Politicians (Australia)
• Member of the Australian Labor Party
• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• Australian
• Born in 1908
• Died in 2000
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