Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 1914–1917

This is a list of the members of the Australian House of Representatives in the Sixth Australian Parliament, which was elected at the 1914 election on 5 September 1914.

There was a significant change in the party system during the Sixth Parliament. There was a split in the Australian Labor Party on 14 November 1916, when the then Prime Minister Billy Hughes walked out of a meeting of the Labor caucus over the issue of conscription along with twenty-four of his supporters, who were all then expelled from the party. Hughes and his followers became the informal "National Labor Party", which formed a minority government until merging with the Commonwealth Liberal Party on 17 February 1917 to form the Nationalist Party of Australia.

Member Party Electorate State In office
Percy Abbott   Liberal / Nationalist New England NSW 1913–1919
Frank Anstey   Labor Bourke Vic 1910–1934
William Archibald   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Hindmarsh SA 1910–1919
John Arthur[1]   Labor Bendigo Vic 1913–1914
Llewellyn Atkinson   Liberal / Nationalist Wilmot Tas 1906–1929
Fred Bamford   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Herbert Qld 1901–1925
Sir Robert Best   Liberal / Nationalist Kooyong Vic 1910–1922
James Boyd   Liberal / Nationalist Henty Vic 1913–1919
Frank Brennan   Labor Batman Vic 1911–1931, 1934–1949
Reginald Burchell   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Fremantle WA 1913–1922
George Burns   Labor Illawarra NSW 1913–1917
Ernest Carr   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Macquarie NSW 1906–1917
James Catts   Labor Cook NSW 1906–1922
John Chanter   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Riverina NSW 1901–1903, 1904–1913, 1914–1922
Austin Chapman   Liberal / Nationalist Eden-Monaro NSW 1901–1926
Matthew Charlton   Labor Hunter NSW 1910–1928
Joseph Cook   Liberal / Nationalist Parramatta NSW 1901–1921
Edward Corser[2]   Liberal / Nationalist Wide Bay Qld 1915–1928
George Dankel   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Boothby SA 1913–1917
James Fenton   Labor Maribyrnong Vic 1910–1934
William Finlayson   Labor Brisbane Qld 1910–1919
Andrew Fisher[2]   Labor Wide Bay Qld 1901–1915
William Fleming   Liberal / Nationalist Robertson NSW 1913–1922
Sir John Forrest   Liberal / Nationalist Swan WA 1901–1918
Richard Foster   Liberal / Nationalist Wakefield SA 1909–1928
James Fowler   Liberal / Nationalist Perth WA 1901–1922
Paddy Glynn   Liberal / Nationalist Angas SA 1901–1919
Henry Gregory   Liberal / Nationalist Dampier WA 1913–1940
Littleton Groom   Liberal / Nationalist Darling Downs Qld 1901–1929, 1931–1936
Alfred Hampson[1]   Labor Bendigo Vic 1915–1917
Joseph Hannan   Labor Fawkner Vic 1913–1917
William Higgs   Labor Capricornia Qld 1910–1922
Robert Howe[3]   Labor Dalley NSW 1910–1915
Billy Hughes   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist West Sydney NSW 1901–1952
Sir William Irvine   Liberal / Nationalist Flinders Vic 1906–1918
Jens Jensen   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Bass Tas 1910–1919
Elliot Johnson   Liberal / Nationalist Lang NSW 1903–1928
Edward Jolley[4]   Labor Grampians Vic 1914–1915
Willie Kelly   Liberal / Nationalist Wentworth NSW 1903–1919
John Livingston   Liberal / Nationalist Barker SA 1906–1922
John Lynch   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Werriwa NSW 1914–1919
Hugh Mahon   Labor Kalgoorlie WA 1901–1917, 1919–1920
William Mahony[3]   Labor Dalley NSW 1915–1927
William Maloney   Labor Melbourne Vic 1904–1940
Chester Manifold   Liberal / Nationalist Corangamite Vic 1901–1903, 1913–1918
Walter Massy-Greene   Liberal / Nationalist Richmond NSW 1910–1922
James Mathews   Labor Melbourne Ports Vic 1906–1931
Charles McDonald   Labor Kennedy Qld 1901–1925
Charles McGrath   Labor Ballarat Vic 1913–1919, 1920–1934
William McWilliams   Liberal / Nationalist Franklin Tas 1903–1922, 1928–1929
Parker Moloney   Labor Indi Vic 1910–1913, 1914–1917, 1919–1931
King O'Malley   Labor Darwin Tas 1901–1917
Richard Orchard   Liberal / Nationalist Nepean NSW 1913–1919
Alfred Ozanne   Labor Corio Vic 1910–1913, 1914–1917
Jim Page   Labor Maranoa Qld 1901–1921
Albert Palmer   Liberal / Nationalist Echuca Vic 1906–1919
Robert Patten   Liberal / Nationalist Hume NSW 1913–1917
Henry Pigott   Liberal / Nationalist Calare NSW 1913–1919
Alexander Poynton   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Grey SA 1901–1922
Edward Riley   Labor South Sydney NSW 1910–1931
Arthur Rodgers   Liberal / Nationalist Wannon Vic 1913–1922, 1925–1929
Granville Ryrie   Liberal / Nationalist North Sydney NSW 1911–1927
Carty Salmon[4]   Nationalist Grampians Vic 1901–1913, 1915–1917
Sydney Sampson   Liberal / Nationalist Wimmera Vic 1906–1919
James Sharpe   Labor Oxley Qld 1913–1917
Hugh Sinclair   Liberal / Nationalist Moreton Qld 1906–1919
Bruce Smith   Liberal / Nationalist Parkes NSW 1901–1919
William Laird Smith   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Denison Tas 1910–1922
William Spence   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Darling NSW 1901–1917, 1917–1919
Jacob Stumm   Liberal / Nationalist Lilley Qld 1913–1917
Josiah Thomas   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Barrier NSW 1901–1917
John Thomson   Liberal / Nationalist Cowper NSW 1906–1919
Frank Tudor   Labor Yarra Vic 1901–1922
David Watkins   Labor Newcastle NSW 1901–1935
William Watt   Liberal / Nationalist Balaclava Vic 1914–1929
William Webster   Labor / National Labor / Nationalist Gwydir NSW 1903–1919
John West   Labor East Sydney NSW 1910–1931
George Wise   Independent/Nationalist [5] Gippsland Vic 1906–1913, 1914–1922
George Edwin Yates   Labor Adelaide SA 1914–1919, 1922–1931

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Arthur died in December 1914, and was succeeded by Alfred Hampson (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 February 1915.
  2. ^ a b Fisher resigned in 1915, and was succeeded by Edward Corser (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 11 December 1915.
  3. ^ a b Howe died in 1915, and was succeeded by William Mahony (Labor) at the resulting by-election on 6 May 1915.
  4. ^ a b Jolley died in 1915, and was succeeded by Carty Salmon (Commonwealth Liberal / Nationalist) at the resulting by-election on 20 February 1915.
  5. ^ Wise joined the Nationalist Party in February 1917.