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William Peter (Bill) Barry (30 June 1899 – 21 December 1972) was a Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Carlton from July 1932 until April 1955. Barry was a member of the Australian Labor Party until March 1955, when he was expelled from the party as part of the Australian Labor Party split of 1955. He became, with Leslie Coleman in the Victorian Legislative Council, joint leader of the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), a party that in 1957 became the Democratic Labor Party.〔Robert Murray (1970), ''The Split'', F.W. Cheshire, Melbourne, page 249. 〕〔Ainsley Symons (2012), 'Democratic Labor Party members in the Victorian Parliament of 1955-1958,' in ''Recorder'' (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, Melbourne Branch) No. 275, November, Pages 4-5.〕 Barry was educated at St Brigid's School, North Fitzroy, Victoria and at St Georges School, Carlton, Victoria. He was a tobacco worker and union official before entering Parliament. He was considered close to John Wren, the Victorian entrepreneur.〔()〕 ==Political career== The Communist Party opposed Barry at parliamentary elections in the 1940s with some of its leading members, including Ralph Gibson and Dr Gerald O'Dea.〔John N. Button (2004), 'Carlton Politics,' in Peter Yule (ed.), ''Carlton. A History'', Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Victoria, page 411.〕 Barry was Minister for Transport in the first Cain government in 1943, Minister for Health, for Housing, and for Forests in the second Cain government from 1945–1947, and Minister for Health in the third Cain government from 1952–1955,〔()〕 and also a member of the Melbourne City Council from 1938–1955. He was expelled from the Labor Party in 1955 and became leader of the Victorian Labor Party (Anti-Communist). He led his group across the floor to support a successful motion of no confidence in John Cain's government. For that perceived act of political treachery, he had thirty pieces of silver thrown at his feet. Noel Counihan's 1955 painting ''On Parliament Steps'', now in the Art Gallery of Ballarat, depicts the incident.〔Bronwyn Watson, "public works", ''The Weekend Australian'', 4-5 May 2013, Review, p. 11〕 Barry was defeated at the election of 1955 by the ALP candidate Denis (Dinny) Lovegrove.〔Ross Fitzgerald (2003), ''The Pope's Battalions. Santamaria, Catholicism and the Labor Split'', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia, Queensland, p.148.〕 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「William Barry (Australian politician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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