George Gibbons
Australian politician (1887–1956)
George Albert Reginald Gibbons (1887 – 11 August 1956) was an Australian politician. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1931, representing the regional New South Wales electorate of Calare.
Early life and career
Gibbons was born in the small town of Tichborne, New South Wales, just south of Parkes. He received a primary education before becoming a farm labourer and then a farmer. He was an inaugural organiser (1910–1911) and then NSW state secretary (1911–1912) of the short-lived Rural Workers Union of Australia, which amalgamated with the Australian Workers Union in 1913; Gibbons remained a member of the AWU thereafter. He was secretary of the Tichborne branch of the Political Labour League and the party's Calare federal electorate council. He later became a farmer and stock and station agent and justice of the peace at Parkes, operating a 1700-acre property, "The Plains", in conjunction with his brother.
Election to parliament
Gibbons was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1929 federal election, securing a 12.3% swing to defeat Nationalist Minister for Health Sir Neville Howse in a significant victory. Gibbons' farming experience, his advocacy of policies for wheat and wool price stabilisation to provide financial security to primary producers, and a frenetic 16-day tour of the large electorate were reported as being key to his success. The Scullin Labor government proved repeatedly unwilling to stabilise prices on the profitable terms Gibbons had advocated, which led to repeated criticism in regional media for making promises he could not deliver.
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