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Crawford Vaughan (1874 – 1947), was Premier of South Australia between 3 April 1915 and 14 July 1917. ==Politics== Vaughan unsuccessfully campaigned for a seat in the seven-member Division of South Australia in the Australian House of Representatives at the 1901 federal election as a Free Trade candidate, and for the Australian Senate as an independent at the 1903 federal election. He then turned to state politics, and entered the South Australian parliament by winning a seat in five-member Torrens at the 1905 state election as a United Labor Party candidate. He held this seat until 1915, when he became one of three members for Sturt. He became Treasurer of South Australia in 1910 in the government of Premier John Verran. Verran and Labor lost government in 1912. When Verran resigned the leadership of the party in 1913, Vaughan was elected to the post. Vaughan and Labor defeated the Liberal Union government led by Archibald Peake at the 1915 election, with 26 of 46 seats in the House of Assembly. His government improved the education system by restructuring the department's senior bureaucracy, by extending the years of compulsory school attendance and by providing better facilities for the intellectually and physically disabled. The government legislated to allow women to serve in the police force and as justices of the peace, while it also improved workers' access to the arbitration system and diminished the court's punitive powers against trade unions. A wheat pool was created, as were land and housing schemes for war veterans. However, the government also passed a law designed to close Lutheran primary schools. He resigned from the Labor Party in 1916 in support of Billy Hughes' conscription, and was a founding member of the National Labor Party in 1917. Andrew Kirkpatrick became ALP leader. Vaughan remained as premier until 1917, when his government was defeated in parliament over the conscription issue, with Peake becoming Premier for a third time. The United Labor Party became the South Australian branch of the Australian Labor Party on 14 September 1917.〔(What's in a name?: Trove 15 Sep 1917 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Crawford Vaughan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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