William Holman
Former Member of the Australian House of RepresentativesWikipedia
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Oct 6, 2026
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While Catherine Susanna Pritchard's Kunadu and David Yunipon's Native Legends were both published.
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In addition, John Longstaff won the Archibald Prize for the second time with his portrait of William Holman, and Ilioth Grinner won the Wine Prize for the fourth time with On the Murrumbidgee.
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In sporting news, Night March won the Melbourne Cup, New South Wales the Sheffield Shield, South Sydney the New South Wales RFL, and Collingwood the VFL following an undefeated run in the regular season.
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Finally, in terms of deaths, H.B. Higgins, the High Court Justice, passed on the 13th of January.
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New South Wales moved away from the second ballot system at the 1920 state election.
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The government of William Holman, who, like Billy Hughes, was an ex-Labor politician who had allied with the conservatives, legislated to use proportional representation for the Legislative Assembly.
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This system was used for three elections, but after the 1925 election, the Labor government of Jack Lang moved to abolish the system.
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The Lang government's original intention was to revert to first past the post, a system that hadn't been used in a quarter century.