T. J. Ryan

Thomas Joseph " T. J. " Ryan ( born July 1, 1876 Port Fairy, Vitoria, † August 1, 1921, Barcaldine, Queensland ) was Prime Minister of Queensland, Australia from May 1915 to October 1919 and the Australian Labor Party politician.

Life

Thomas Ryan was at South Melbourne College (now Xavier College) to school and studied at the University of Melbourne, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Law. He qualified in both the science of art as well as in law to the master and taught as a teacher at various grammar schools in Melbourne, Launceston, Maryborough and Rockhampton. His teaching career he gave in December, worked in Queensland at the court and was a lawyer in Rockhampton at lower and approved in Brisbane to higher courts. In Rockhampton, he joined in 1900 in the Australian Natives Association and became its regional president.

He married in 1910 and had a son and a daughter.

Political career

Thomas Ryan ran twice for Abgeordnentenhäuser without success. In October 1909, he came for the Australian Labor Party in Queensland from Parliament, where he remained for ten years. After re-election in Queensland in 1912, he was elected leader of the Australian Labour Party, succeeding David Bowman.

The Government of Ryan was the first majority Labour Government in Queensland. Some of the eight members of his cabinet were from the shearers ' strike of 1891, which ultimately lead to the foundation of the Australian Labour Party led. His reign was an example for future Australian Labour governments with their employees friendly policies, as these Queensland government remained in power after their first electoral success to the year 1957. The reform of the workers' and peasants rights was the main content of his reign. In the election in May 1915, the Labour Party was elected with a large majority and Ryan became Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. His government enacted numerous social laws, for example, a court of arbitration in industrial disputes, provisions for termination and compensation of workers, safety and security on scaffolds as well as laws for trade and business transactions. These statutory provisions favored the government and the private welfare, and also the development of state economic activities in rail and hotel industry. Coal mines were opened, the iron and steel industry developed and a government-run insurance system was established. 1918 Ryan was re-elected by a large majority. He led the Labour Party during the election in 1919 at the federal level and was elected to the House of Representatives.

Ryan was the only Prime Minister of Australia, the opposed it actively in the two referendums of 1916 and 1917 against the introduction of conscription in Australia Billy Hughes.

Honors

On the badge of his statue in Queens Gardens in Brisbane is engraved: Teacher - lawyer- statesman. According to him, an electoral district in Australia, the Division of Ryan is named.

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