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James Bayley (politician)

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James Bayley
Member of the Australian Parliament
for Oxley
In office
5 May 1917 – 19 December 1931
Preceded byJames Sharpe
Succeeded byFrancis Baker
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Wynnum
In office
29 April 1933 – 10 May 1935
Preceded byWalter Barnes
Succeeded byJohn Donnelly
Personal details
Born
James Garfield Bayley

(1882-03-26)26 March 1882
Franklin, Tasmania, Australia
Died14 January 1968(1968-01-14) (aged 85)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Political partyNationalist Party of Australia
Other political
affiliations		Country and Progressive National Party
SpouseGladys Thelma Grier
RelationsIrene Longman (sister)
Percy Bayley (brother)
Alma materStanford University
OccupationTeacher

James Garfield Bayley (26 March 1882 – 14 January 1968) was an Australian politician. He was a Nationalist Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1917 to 1931 and a Country and Progressive National Party member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1933 to 1935.[1]

Early life and teaching career

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Bayley was born in Franklin, Tasmania and was educated at Leichhardt Superior Public School in Sydney, but moved with his family to Brisbane in 1895, where he won a scholarship to attend Brisbane Grammar School. He did his teacher training at South Brisbane and was transferred to Toowoomba as an assistant teacher before resigning from the Education Department in 1904 to further his studies in the United States. He received a diploma from the California State Teachers Training College at San Jose and became principal of a school in Fresno County in central California before resigning to attend Stanford University, where he received his bachelor's and master's degrees. He returned to Australia and was appointed principal at Charters Towers State High School in December 1911. He unsuccessfully contested Oxley at the 1914 federal election.[1][2][3][4][5]

Political career

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Bayley c. 1920

In 1917, Bayley was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Nationalist member for Oxley. In federal parliament, he was a member of the Joint Committee on Public Accounts from 1920 to 1926 and its chairman from 1923 to 1926. He was chairman of committees from 1926 to 1929 and then opposition whip and secretary of the Nationalist Party from 1929 until his 1931 defeat. He lost his seat to a Labor candidate at the 1931 federal election.[6][3]

He was then elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland in a May 1933 by-election following the death of Country and Progressive National Party MP Walter Barnes, retaining the seat for the party. However, he was defeated at the 1935 state election.[1][7][8] In January 1936, he was appointed secretary to the Northern Australia Geophysical and Geological Survey for a two-year period.[9]

In 1936, he unsuccessfully contested United Australia Party preselection for the Darling Downs federal by-election that year and for the Senate at the 1937 federal election.[10][11] In 1943, he unsuccessfully contested the 1943 federal election as an independent in the New South Wales seat of Newcastle, during which time he listed his occupation as "retired".[12][13]

Later life

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In 1941, he was appointed to the role of Press Censorship Authority by the Menzies government.[14] In 1947, Bayley was appointed Commonwealth Appeal Censor, having what was essentially the final say on appeals from the Film Censorship Board. He held the role until 1956.[15] As Appeal Censor, he confirmed the ban on Roberto Rossellini's film The Miracle, but overturned a ban on the film adaptation of the Chinese play The White Haired Girl as long as "politically objectionable" scenes were removed.[16][17][18]

Personal life

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Bayley died in 1968 in Brisbane.[1]

His sister, Irene Longman, was the first woman to be elected to the Queensland Parliament, while his brother, Percy Bayley, was also a state MP for Pittsworth.[1][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2015.
  2. ^ "THE COMING ELECTIONS". The Brisbane Courier. No. 17, 626. 13 July 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ a b c "WYNNUM SEAT". The Brisbane Courier. No. 23, 428. 2 March 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "The Queensland University". The Beaudesert Times. Vol. 2, no. 76. Queensland, Australia. 25 March 1910. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "HIGH SCHOOL". Darling Downs Gazette. Vol. LIV, no. 9919. Queensland, Australia. 2 December 1911. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ Carr, Adam (2008). "Australian Election Archive". Psephos, Adam Carr's Election Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2008.
  7. ^ "QUEENSLAND BY ELECTION". The Age. No. 24, 352. Victoria, Australia. 1 May 1933. p. 8. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia. "QUEENSLAND BY ELECTION". The Age. No. 24, 352. Victoria, Australia. 1 May 1933. p. 8. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "QUEENSLAND BY-ELECTION". The Age. No. 24, 354. Victoria, Australia. 3 May 1933. p. 11. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  9. ^ "About People". The Age. 9 January 1936. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  10. ^ "U.A.P. v. U.C.P." The Telegraph (SECOND ed.). Brisbane. 19 November 1936. p. 10. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  11. ^ "U.A.P. Senate Nominations Not to Be Disclosed Until Executive Meets". The Telegraph (CITY FINAL LAST MINUTE NEWS ed.). Brisbane. 26 July 1937. p. 7. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ^ "Election Candidates". The Newcastle Sun. No. 7996. New South Wales, Australia. 9 August 1943. p. 2. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  13. ^ "Poultry-Farmer Candidate Drops His Clerical Status". The Sun. No. 10473. New South Wales, Australia. 31 July 1943. p. 3. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ^ "NATIONAL SECURITY (GENERAL) REGULATIONS". Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. No. 158. Australia. 8 August 1941. p. 1785. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ^ "New Chief Film Censor". The Age. 21 December 1956. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
  16. ^ "CHINESE FILM PASSED". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XVI, no. 284. New South Wales, Australia. 19 February 1952. p. 5. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  17. ^ "Ban stays on The Miracle'". The Argus. No. 32, 845. Melbourne. 10 December 1951. p. 7. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  18. ^ "Appeal on film rejection". The Daily Telegraph. Vol. XVI, no. 216. New South Wales, Australia. 30 November 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 7 December 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
Parliament of Australia
Preceded by Member for Oxley
1917–1931 		Succeeded by
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by Member for Wynnum
1933–1935 		Succeeded by
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