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词条 Cleaver Bunton
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Municipal career

  3. Appointment to the Australian Senate

  4. Honours

  5. References

  6. Bibliography

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Cleaver Ernest Bunton {{post-nominals|country=AUS|sep=,|AO|OBE}} (5 May 1902{{spaced ndash}}20 January 1999) was a long-serving Mayor of Albury, New South Wales, Australia, who came to national prominence in 1975 when he was controversially appointed to the Senate by New South Wales Liberal Party Premier, Tom Lewis, to fill a position vacated by a Labor Party member.

Early life

Born in Albury, Bunton left school at 13 and initially worked as a clerk in a solicitor's office before becoming an accountant. He also was involved in Albury sporting and community affairs, playing Australian rules football with the Albury Football Club, becoming captain-coach and club secretary at 17. His younger brother Haydn Bunton went on to become a notable Australian rules footballer.

Bunton married Eileen O'Malley in 1930. In 1930, he was elected president of the Ovens and Murray Football League (a position he held until 1969). He also held administrative roles in the Victorian Country Football League, the West Albury Tennis Club and a range of other community groups and organisations.

Municipal career

In recognition of his role in Albury, Bunton was encouraged to run for a position on the Albury Municipal Council, and was elected in 1925 at the age of 22, the youngest person ever elected to a council to that time. After initially retiring in 1931, he returned to the council in 1937, elected Mayor of Albury in 1945 and served as from 1946 until August 1976 (with brief breaks in 1961 and 1972–73). Bunton was also a regional radio commentator, commenting on sport and reading the news bulletins.

Appointment to the Australian Senate

Bunton would have remained an uncontroversial, hardworking local administrator but for the resignation of the Australian Labor Party Senator for New South Wales, Lionel Murphy, on 9 February 1975, to take up an appointment as a justice of the High Court.

Convention dictated that Federal Senate casual vacancies were filled by someone nominated by the same political party. However, on 27 February, the New South Wales Liberal Party Premier, Tom Lewis, defied the convention by appointing Bunton, who was not affiliated with any party.[1] Facing a hostile Labor Party (and a sometimes hostile electorate), Bunton surprised many observers by acting independently rather than as a Liberal appointee, and resisted urgings from the Malcolm Fraser-led Opposition to block the supply bills of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's government, instead supporting Labor on the supply bills during the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis.[2]

Bunton chose not to contest the ensuing election. The controversy surrounding his appointment, as well as that of Albert Field, prompted an amendment to the Constitution, requiring that casual Senate vacancies be filled by a member of the same party.[1]

Honours

For his services, Bunton was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1954,[3] an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1975,[4] a member of the Ovens and Murray League Hall Of Fame, as well as receiving an honorary degree from Charles Sturt University and having a street and a football oval (Bunton Park) in North Albury, a chrysanthemum and a ward in the Albury Base Hospital named in his honour.

In recognition of his years of service to his home city, Bunton was occasionally known by the sobriquet "Mr Albury".

References

1. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn35.htm |title=Senate Casual Vacancies |author=Gerard Newman |date=14 May 2002 |work=Research Note no.35 2001-2001 |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia |accessdate=23 March 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914110822/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rn/2001-02/02rn35.htm |archivedate=14 September 2010 |df=dmy }}
2. ^Hansard Senate 15 February 1999, see pp 1858 onwards {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060827041921/http://wopared.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/dailys/ds150299.pdf |date=27 August 2006 }}
3. ^It's an Honour – Officer of the Order of the British Empire
4. ^It's an Honour – Officer of the Order of Australia

Bibliography

  • Goodbye Mr Albury, Herald Sun, Melbourne. 4 February 1999.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20060827041921/http://wopared.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/dailys/ds150299.pdf Hansard Senate 15 February 1999, see pp 1858 onwards]
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