Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1929–1931

This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the 12th Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1929 election on 12 October 1929. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Stanley Bruce in power since 1923 with coalition partner the Country Party led by Earle Page was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party led by James Scullin. Labor won with its then largest-ever majority in the federal parliament. However major divisions within the Labor over policy responses to the Great Depression, and the subsequent creation of the United Australia Party led to thirty parliamentarians changing their party affiliation in 1931.

Member	Party after 1929 election		Party at 1931 election		Electorate	State	Term in office
Frank Anstey		Labor		Labor	Bourke	Vic	1910–1934
James Bayley		Nationalist		United Australia	Oxley	Qld	1917–1931
Jack Beasley		Labor		Lang Labor	West Sydney	NSW	1928–1946
George Bell		Nationalist		United Australia	Darwin	Tas	1919–1922, 1925–1943
Arthur Blakeley		Labor		Labor	Darling	NSW	1917–1934
Frank Brennan		Labor		Labor	Batman	Vic	1911–1931, 1934–1949
Donald Charles Cameron		Nationalist		United Australia	Brisbane	Qld	1919–1931, 1934–1937
Malcolm Cameron		Nationalist		United Australia	Barker	SA	1922–1934
Ben Chifley		Labor		Labor	Macquarie	NSW	1928–1931, 1940–1951
Percy Coleman		Labor		Labor	Reid	NSW	1922–1931
Bernard Corser		Country		Country	Wide Bay	Qld	1928–1954
Richard Crouch		Labor		Labor	Corangamite	Vic	1901–1910, 1929–1931
Charles Culley		Labor		Labor	Denison	Tas	1928–1931
Lou Cunningham		Labor		Labor	Gwydir	NSW	1919–1925, 1929–1931
John Curtin		Labor		Labor	Fremantle	WA	1928–1931, 1934–1945
John Cusack		Labor		Labor	Eden-Monaro	NSW	1929–1931
John Eldridge		Labor		Lang Labor	Martin	NSW	1929–1931
James Fenton		Labor		United Australia	Maribyrnong	Vic	1910–1934
Frank Forde		Labor		Labor	Capricornia	Qld	1922–1946
Josiah Francis		Nationalist		United Australia	Moreton	Qld	1922–1955
Charles Frost[1]				Labor	Franklin	Tas	1929–1931, 1934–1946
Moses Gabb		Labor		Independent	Angas	SA	1919–1925, 1929–1934
Sydney Gardner		Nationalist		United Australia	Robertson	NSW	1922–1940
George Gibbons		Labor		Labor	Calare	NSW	1929–1931
Albert Green		Labor		Labor	Kalgoorlie	WA	1922–1940
Roland Green		Country		Country	Richmond	NSW	1922–1937
Henry Gregory		Country		Country	Swan	WA	1913–1940
Henry Gullett		Nationalist		United Australia	Henty	Vic	1925–1940
Allan Guy		Labor		United Australia	Bass	Tas	1929–1934, 1940–1946
Charles Hawker		Nationalist		United Australia	Wakefield	SA	1929–1938
William Hill		Country		Country	Echuca	Vic	1919–1934
Jack Holloway		Labor		Labor	Flinders	Vic	1929–1951
Billy Hughes		Independent/Australian		United Australia	North Sydney	NSW	1901–1952
James Hunter		Country		Country	Maranoa	Qld	1921–1940
Rowley James		Labor		Lang Labor	Hunter	NSW	1928–1958
Paul Jones		Labor		Labor	Indi	Vic	1928–1931
Richard Keane		Labor		Labor	Bendigo	Vic	1929–1931, 1938–1946 (S)
William Killen		Country		Country	Riverina	NSW	1922–1931
Andrew Lacey		Labor		Labor	Grey	SA	1922–1931
John Latham		Nationalist		United Australia	Kooyong	Vic	1922–1934
Bert Lazzarini		Labor		Lang Labor	Werriwa	NSW	1919–1931, 1934–1952
Arthur Lewis		Labor		Labor	Corio	Vic	1929–1931
William Long		Labor		Labor	Lang	NSW	1928–1931
Joseph Lyons		Labor		United Australia	Wilmot	Tas	1929–1939
George Mackay		Nationalist		United Australia	Lilley	Qld	1917–1934
Norman Makin		Labor		Labor	Hindmarsh	SA	1919–1946, 1954–1963
William Maloney		Labor		Labor	Melbourne	Vic	1904–1940
Walter Marks		Independent/Australian		United Australia	Wentworth	NSW	1919–1931
Charles Marr[2]		Nationalist		United Australia	Parkes	NSW	1919–1929, 1931–1943
George Martens		Labor		Labor	Herbert	Qld	1928–1946
James Mathews		Labor		Labor	Melbourne Ports	Vic	1906–1931
George Maxwell		Independent/Australian		United Australia	Fawkner	Vic	1917–1935
Charles McGrath		Labor		United Australia	Ballaarat	Vic	1913–1919, 1920–1934
John McNeill		Labor		Labor	Wannon	Vic	1922–1925, 1929–1931
Edward McTiernan[2]		Labor			Parkes	NSW	1929–1930
William McWilliams[1]		Independent			Franklin	Tas	1903–1922, 1928–1929
Parker Moloney		Labor		Labor	Hume	NSW	1910–1913, 1914–1917, 1919–1931
Arthur Morgan		Nationalist		United Australia	Darling Downs	Qld	1929–1931
Walter Nairn		Nationalist		United Australia	Perth	WA	1929–1943
Harold George Nelson[3]		Labor		Labor	Northern Territory	NT	1922–1934
Sir Earle Page		Country		Country	Cowper	NSW	1919–1961
Archdale Parkhill		Nationalist		United Australia	Warringah	NSW	1927–1937
Thomas Paterson		Country		Country	Gippsland	Vic	1922–1943
John Price		Labor		United Australia	Boothby	SA	1928–1941
John Prowse		Country		Country	Forrest	WA	1919–1943
Edward Charles Riley		Labor		Labor	Cook	NSW	1922–1934
Edward Riley		Labor		Labor	South Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Darby Riordan		Labor		Labor	Kennedy	Qld	1929–1936
Albert Rowe		Labor		Labor	Parramatta	NSW	1929–1931
James Scullin		Labor		Labor	Yarra	Vic	1910–1913, 1922–1949
Percy Stewart		Country Progressive		Independent	Wimmera	Vic	1919–1931
Ted Theodore		Labor		Labor	Dalley	NSW	1927–1931
Victor Thompson		Country		Country	New England	NSW	1922–1940
James Tully		Labor		Labor	Barton	NSW	1928–1931
Eddie Ward[4]				Lang Labor	East Sydney	NSW	1931, 1932–1963
David Watkins		Labor		Labor	Newcastle	NSW	1901–1935
John West[4]		Labor			East Sydney	NSW	1910–1931
Thomas White		Nationalist		United Australia	Balaclava	Vic	1929–1951
George Edwin Yates		Labor		Labor	Adelaide	SA	1914–1919, 1922–1931

Notes

1. Independent member William McWilliams died on 22 October 1929; Labor candidate Charles Frost won the resulting by-election on 14 December.
2. ALP member Edward McTiernan resigned on 19 December 1930 to be appointed to the High Court of Australia; Nationalist candidate Charles Marr won the resulting by-election on 31 January 1931.
3. At this time, the member for the Northern Territory could only vote on matters relating to the Northern Territory.
4. ALP member John West died on 5 February 1931; Labor candidate Eddie Ward won the resulting by-election on 7 March.

References

• Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives during the session of the Twelfth Parliament. Parliament of Australia. 1931.
• "Members of the House of Representatives since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2008.