Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://wikidata.dbpedia.org/resource/Q5437684> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 52 of
52
with 100 triples per page.
- Q5437684 subject Q6997559.
- Q5437684 subject Q7017040.
- Q5437684 subject Q8618747.
- Q5437684 subject Q8729800.
- Q5437684 abstract "In Australian parliamentary practice, the Father of the House of Representatives is the member of the Australian House of Representatives who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member. It is an informal, honorific title which carries no parliamentary responsibilities. Where two or more members have had equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other currently serving members, they are known as the joint Fathers of the House of Representatives. The current Father of the House of Representatives is Philip Ruddock who acquired the title on 1 September 1998 after the resignation from Parliament of the then Father of the House of Representatives, Ian Sinclair.The only Father of the House of Representatives with broken service but whose latter period of continuous service was sufficiently long to qualify was Eddie Ward.The first House of Representatives was elected in March 1901. The election was held on Friday 29 March in South Australia and Tasmania, and on Saturday 30 March in the other states. Despite that slight variation in the election date, all the members elected to the first Parliament were considered to have had equal seniority. It follows that there could not be a "longest-serving member" until only one member from the first Parliament was still in the House. That occurred on 8 April 1935 with the death of David Watkins, leaving Billy Hughes as the first Father of the House of Representatives. Hughes was also the first Father of the Parliament from 1938.Since that date the Fathers and joint Fathers of the House of Representatives have been as follows, with joint Fathers being shown in small type:".
- Q5437684 wikiPageExternalLink display.w3p;adv=;db=HANDBOOK;group=;holdingType=;id=handbook%2Fnewhandbook%2F2008-12-19%2F0078;orderBy=;page=;query=Id%3A%22handbook%2Fnewhandbook%2F2008-12-19%2F0071%22;querytype=;rec=;resCount=.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q1103607.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q1251694.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q152666.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q214438.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q2266155.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q23386.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q314264.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q315979.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3379071.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q34366.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q356261.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q35715.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586876.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586879.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586886.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586888.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586889.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586891.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586894.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586895.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q3586897.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q370926.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q408.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5240865.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5329473.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5336555.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5437685.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5437686.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5494954.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5501506.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q5982908.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q6137315.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q6209106.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q6814425.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q6997559.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q7017040.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q708887.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q7139748.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q7331051.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q7817908.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q783401.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q8618747.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q863220.
- Q5437684 wikiPageWikiLink Q8729800.
- Q5437684 comment "In Australian parliamentary practice, the Father of the House of Representatives is the member of the Australian House of Representatives who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member. It is an informal, honorific title which carries no parliamentary responsibilities. Where two or more members have had equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other currently serving members, they are known as the joint Fathers of the House of Representatives.".
- Q5437684 label "Father of the Australian House of Representatives".