Second Hollway ministry explained

Cabinet Name:Second Hollway ministry
Cabinet Number:56th
Jurisdiction:Victoria, Australia
Date Formed:28 October 1952
Date Dissolved:31 October 1952
Government Head Title:Premier
Deputy Government Head Title:Deputy premier
Government Head:Thomas Hollway
Deputy Government Head:Alexander Dennett
State Head Title:Monarch
State Head:Elizabeth II
Governor:Sir Dallas Brooks
Current Number:8
Political Party: Electoral Reform League
Legislature Status:Minority government
Opposition Party: Labor
Opposition Leader:John Cain
Previous:First McDonald ministry
Successor:Second McDonald ministry
Flag:File:Flag of Victoria (1901–1952).svg
Flag Border:true
Cabinet Type:ministry

The Second Hollway Ministry was the 56th ministry of the Government of Victoria. It was led by the Premier of Victoria, Thomas Hollway and Deputy Premier Alexander Dennett. Hollway and the rest of the ministry were not aligned to a political party at the time, although they would later form the Electoral Reform League to contest the December 1952 election, and had been recently expelled from the parliamentary Liberal and Country Party. With the help of two Hollway supporters in the Victorian Legislative Council, the Labor Party blocked supply to John McDonald's Country Party government, and indicated that they would support Hollway as Premier.[1]

The ministry was the shortest-lived ministry in Victoria's political history, lasting only seventy hours. The cabinet was sworn in at noon on 28 October 1952, but was ordered to resign on the morning of 31 October after Hollway's request to the Governor of Victoria for a dissolution of parliament was refused. John McDonald was asked to re-form a government, and an election was called for 6 December.[2]

Portfolios

MinisterPortfolios[3]
Thomas Hollway, MLA
Alexander Dennett, MLA
Charles Gartside, MLC
Raymond Tovell, MLA
John Hipworth, MLA
John Don, MLA
William Dawnay-Mould, MLA
Hugh MacLeod, MLC

Notes and References

  1. News: Will today see end of the McDonald Government?. . . Melbourne . 21 October 1952 . 23 February 2012 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
  2. News: Hollway Govt Falls After 70-hr Office. . . Rockhampton, Qld. . 1 November 1952 . 23 February 2012 . 1 . National Library of Australia.
  3. http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1952/V/general/839.pdf Victoria Government Gazette No. 839