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Title: Good times and bum times, we've seen them all ...(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Author: Anne Stockwell
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 15, 2008
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 1000Page: 5(1)

Article Type: Editorial

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Chapters: Jens Jensen, Kevin Newman, Allan Guy, Jodie Campbell, Warwick Smith, Lance Barnard, Claude Barnard, Michelle O'byrne, Michael Ferguson, David Storrer, David Jackson, Bruce Kekwick, Silvia Smith. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jens August Jensen (2 May 1865 16 November 1936) was an Australian politician and Minister for the Navy. Jensen was born in Ballarat, Victoria and educated at Ballarat, leaving school at 11. He became a rabbit-hawker and miner at Beaconsfield, Tasmania. In July 1885 he married Elizabeth Frances Broadhurst; she died in 1894 leaving him with a son and four daughters. He remarried Bertha Hopton in August 1896 and became a successful publican. In 1903 Jensen was elected as the member for George Town in the Tasmanian House of Assembly as an independent and was re-elected as a Labor candidate for George Town in 1906 and Wilmot 1909 and was Chief Secretary in a Labor government for eight days in October 1909. In February 1910 he resigned from the House of Assembly and won the seat of Bass in the House of Representatives at the April 1910 election. He served as an Assistant Minister and then in July 1915 he became the first Minister for the Navy in the Fisher and Hughes governments. When a group of more conservative ALP members under Billy Hughes broke away in 1917 over conscription issues to form the Nationalist Party of Australia, Jensen joined them. Hughes retained government after the split, and Jensen was appointed Minister for Trade and Customs. In 1918, Jensen was investigated by the Royal Commission on Navy and Defence Administration. When the Commission found against him, he was forced to resign from the ministry. He subsequently lost his endorsement to contest his seat at the 1919 election. Though he attempte...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1020524 ... Read more