AAP General News (Australia)
12-01-1999
Qld: 100th anniversary of world s first Labor premier marked
The 100th anniversary of the swearing in of the world's first Labor government has
been marked with the launch of a book on ANDERSON DAWSON'S seven days as Queensland premier.
Current Premier PETER BEATTIE's launched the book at Old Government House.
Mr DAWSON'S life included stints as a miner, newspaperman, republican, Queensland Premier,
federal Senator and federal Defence Minister.
In 1910, aged 47, he died a lonely death from alcoholism in a Brisbane hospital.
At the launch of Seven Days to Remember - the World's First Labor Government, Mr BEATTIE
said Mr DAWSON had made a significant contribution to the Labor Party, and Queensland.
Mr BEATTIE says the UK parliament will note the anniversary today in a motion to
be moved by Labor MP FRASER KEMP.
The Labor Party will place a commemorative headstone at Mr DAWSON'S grave in Brisbane's
Toowong Cemetery.
AAP RTV bja/geb/smf/jn
KEYWORD: DAWSON (BRISBANE)
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