In 1930, shortly before the Statute was enacted, the Labor Prime Minister James Scullin recommended Sir Isaac Isaacs ( then the Chief Justice of Australia ) as the Governor-General of Australia, to replace Lord Stonehaven.

( However, it became very clear in a conversation between Scullin and King George V's Private Secretary, Lord Stamfordham, on 11 November 1930, that this was merely the official reason for the objection, the real reason being that an Australian, no matter how highly regarded personally, was not considered appropriate to be Governor-General.

In 1930, King George V and the Australian Prime Minister James Scullin discussed the appointment of a new governor-general to replace Lord Stonehaven, whose term was coming to an end.

* 1876 – James Scullin, Australian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1953 )

Lyons and Fenton's opposition to the economic policies of the Scullin Labor Government had attracted the support of prominent Australian conservatives, known as " the Group ", whose number included future prime minister Robert Menzies.

James Henry Scullin ( 18 September 1876 – 28 January 1953 ), Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia.

It is in a region which Mawson proclaimed as British territory on several occasions in 1930 and 1931 ( including at Proclamation Island, Scullin Monolith and Cape Bruce ), and later became Australian Antarctic Territory.

Shortly afterwards, however, Scullin decided to appoint an Australian as Governor-General and offered the post to Isaacs.

Henry Alfred " Harry " Jenkins ( born 18 August 1952 ), an Australian politician, is a member of the House of Representatives, representing the Division of Scullin, Victoria, since the 1986 by-election for the Australian Labor Party.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Scullin

James Scullin of the Australian Labor Party was the first Catholic to become a Prime Minister of Australia in 1929.

Yet despite early 20th century sectarian feeling, Australia elected its first Catholic prime minister, James Scullin, of the Australian Labor Party in 1929-decades before the Protestant majority of the United States would elect John F. Kennedy as its first Catholic president.

Australia elected its first Catholic prime minister, James Scullin ( Australian Labor Party ), in 1929.

The Scullin ministryThe Scullin Ministry was the twentieth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 22 October 1929 to 6 January 1932.

Melbourne General Cemetery is a large ( 43 hectare ) necropolis which is notable for the graves of four Australian Prime Ministers: James Scullin, Sir Robert Menzies, Harold Holt and Sir John Gorton.

Category: Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Scullin

The book also included characters based on other important Victorian and Australian political figures, including Victorian Premier Sir Thomas Bent and Prime Minister James Scullin, as well as Roman Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix.

During its existence, the Division was held by four Labor members: Frank Tudor, a former leader of the Australian Labor Party ; James Scullin, the thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia ; Stan Keon, an important figure in the ALP-DLP Split ; and Jim Cairns, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia.

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

The Division of Scullin is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of Victoria.

The opposition Australian Labor Party, led by James Scullin, successfully depicted Stanley Bruce as wanting to destroy Australia's high wages and working conditions in the 1929 federal election.

An Australian Labor Party rump remained with Scullin as Prime Minister and Theodore as Treasurer.

The usual wording of official announcements of this nature was " The King has been pleased to appoint ...", but on this occasion the announcement said merely " The King has appointed ...", and his Private Secretary Lord Stamfordham asked the Solicitor-General, Sir Robert Garran, to make sure Scullin was aware of the exact wording.

Dixon had reservations about the appointment of Labor politicians Dr Herbert Vere Evatt and Sir Edward McTiernan by the Government of James Scullin in late 1930 ( and is said to have considered resigning in protest ).

Scullin invited Sir Otto Niemeyer of the Bank of England to come to Australia to advise on economic policy.

In May 1932 the Governor Sir Philip Game dismissed the Lang government, which was in dispute with Australia's federal government of James Scullin, and appointed Stevens as Premier.

In 1930 the Labor Prime Minister, James Scullin, appointed Isaacs, by this time aged 75, as Chief Justice.

Although Isaacs was seen as a Labor appointment, the Scullin government fell at the end of 1931, and the rest of Isaacs's term was during the United Australia Party government of Joseph Lyons.

Scullin was partially influenced by the precedent set by the Government of the Irish Free State, which always insisted upon the Governor-General of the Irish Free State being an Irishman.

Scullin personally advised King George V to make the appointment, during his 1930 trip to Europe.

) Scullin was equally insistent that the monarch must act on the relevant Prime Minister's direct advice ( the practice until 1926 was that Dominion prime ministers advised the monarch indirectly, through the British government, which effectively had a veto over any proposal it did not agree with ).

However, Scullin stood firm, and on 29 November the King agreed to Isaacs's appointment, but made it clear that he did so only because he felt he had no option.

In parliament on 13 March 1931, though still a member of the ALP, Lyons supported a no confidence motion against the Scullin Labor government.

Accompanied by another senior minister in the Scullin government, James Fenton, and three other right-wing Labor MPs, he formed the " All for Australia League " and crossed the floor to sit on the opposition benches.

He did this until 1924, when Prime Minister Stanley Bruce appointed him his political liaison officer in London, a position he held until 1931, sending home confidential reports on political and economic matters, both for Bruce and for his Labor successor, James Scullin.

* In the field of law, Niagara alumni include: Jerome C. Gorski, Judge on the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division ; Frank D. O ' Connor, former Judge on the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division ; Hugh B. Scott, Magistrate Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York and the first African American to become an Assistant United States Attorney ; and Frederick J. Scullin, Senior Judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York.

In response, Lang and his supporters left the ALP to form the Lang Labor Party and voted with the opposition on a no-confidence motion to bring down the Scullin government.

When Scullin retired as Labor leader in 1935, Holloway opposed Frank Forde's candidacy to succeed him, on the grounds that Forde has supported the Premiers ' Plan, and threw the support of left-wing members of Caucus to John Curtin, who won the Caucus ballot by one vote.

Mawson landed on the rock on February 13, 1931 and named it for James Scullin, Prime Minister of Australia in 1929-31.

The Scullin Labor Government was sworn in on 21 October 1929.

The plan was signed by New South Wales Labor Premier Jack Lang, but he was a notable critic of its underlying philosophy and went on to pursue his own policy of defaulting on debt repayments, which led to confrontation with the Federal Scullin and Lyons Governments and resulted in the Lang Dismissal Crisis of 1932.

When the more radical Ted Theodore was reinstated as Treasurer by Scullin on 29 January, Joseph Lyons and James Fenton along with three others resigned from the government.

In parliament on 13 March 1931, though still a member of the ALP, Lyons supported a no confidence motion against the Scullin Labor government.

His successor James Scullin went on to become the Prime Minister of Australia, something Charlton never managed to do.