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19-476: The newspaper was initially published under the name The Western Champion from 1879 to 1891 by J. Monahan and William Henry Campbell . The newspaper was published under the name The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts from 1892 to 1922 by William Henry Campbell, Charles John James and Frederic Robert James . The newspaper was published under

38-526: A military school. He had a natural artistic skill, which he used to create pencil caricatures as well as oil and watercolour paintings. At the age of about sixteen, William Campbell accompanied one of his brothers to New Zealand during the New Zealand Wars . William studied the Māori language and acted as an interpreter for his brother's regiment. After that, he went to Queensland and made his way to

57-526: A number of newspapers. Sir Henry Parkes liked his work and offered him an appointment at a salary of £1000 a year on one of his newspapers. He also travelled to Victoria and worked for a time on The Argus , a Melbourne newspaper. In the early 1870s, William Campbell arrived in Blackall, Queensland , where he joined Mr Monahan in establishing a newspaper, The Western Champion . However, Mr Monahan retired soon after and William Campbell continued to run

76-533: The Australian Labor Party ( State of Queensland ) and commonly referred to as Queensland Labor or simply Labor , is the branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the state of Queensland . It has functioned in the state since the 1880s. The Queensland branch of the Australian Labor Party was the first Labour Party to win government in the world, when, in December of 1899, following

95-657: The Palmer River Goldfields near Cooktown . There he contracted a fever which made him an invalid for months. While in North Queensland, he met Spencer Browne who had newspaper interests in Cooktown where the brothers Charles John James and Frederic Robert James were working. William Campbell contributed numerous articles on various subjects to this newspaper. William Campbell then travelled to New South Wales where he wrote and sketched for

114-618: The Queensland Legislative Council . He and his family moved to live in South Brisbane , but made regular visits to Barcaldine. In January 1917, following devastating floods, the Queensland Government asked Campbell to be part of a commission to inspect Clermont, Queensland , and to advise the government on how best to assist. During the visit to Clermont, Campbell contracted asthma (today

133-720: The rights and conditions of workers , fair wages , and secure employment . Labor contests Brisbane City Council elections, and has done so since the inaugural election in 1925 . It has been in opposition to the LNP (and before that, the Liberal Party) since 2008 . The last Labor member to serve as Lord Mayor of Brisbane was Tim Quinn , who was defeated in 2004 . Historically, Labor also endorsed candidates outside of Brisbane, including in Ipswich , Townsville and Toowoomba . The current Labor leader on Brisbane City Council

152-735: The 1970s, Queensland Labor's voter base in particular has swayed more heavily toward the metropolitan and urban areas of the state such as Brisbane , the Sunshine Coast , the Gold Coast , and Townsville , with the Country (later National) and Liberal parties competing with Labor in both regions as an electoral bloc. Historically, the Queensland Labor Party was rooted in socialist principles, advocating for state socialism and agrarian socialism , with

171-652: The 47 Labor MPs, 24 belong to the Left, 16 to the Right, and 7 to the Old Guard. As of the 2020 state election , Queensland Labor's seat distribution was as follows: Historically (1910s–1960s) Queensland Labor's voter base and membership has been distributed fairly equitably across the metropolitan, urban, and rural areas of the state, although maintaining a demographic majority within the South East region. Beginning in

190-624: The Queensland Premier T. J. Ryan ), who was the first endorsed Labor candidate in Queensland. Ryan won the election. Although he was not successful in state politics, Campbell took an active interest in local affairs and was a member of the Barcaldine Divisional Board from 1897 to 1906, as well as involving himself in many other local organisations. On 12 July 1906, Campbell was appointed for life to

209-652: The link between flooding and asthma is well-known ). The appointment terminated on his death on 17 June 1919. William Campbell died on 17 June 1919 at his home Craignish , Barcaldine , Queensland aged 72 years 11 months. He had been ill for about two years prior to his death, suffering from asthma contracted in Clermont which weakened his heart. He was buried in the Barcaldine Cemetery on 18 June 1919. Australian Labor Party (Queensland Branch) The Queensland Labor Party , officially known as

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228-653: The name The Western Champion from 1922 to 1937 by William Henry Campbell, Charles John James and Frederic Robert James . The papers have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia . William Henry Campbell (Queensland politician) William Henry Campbell was a politician and newspaper editor/ proprietor in Queensland , Australia. He

247-560: The newspaper on his own until 1879, when he was joined by the James brothers from Cooktown. The three entered into a partnership that continued until William Campbell's death. In about 1885, they relocated the newspaper to Barcaldine . The death of Francis Reid Murphy created a by-election in the Queensland electoral district of Barcoo on 5 March 1892. Thomas McIlwraith , a former Queensland Premier urged Campbell to stand for election against shearer Tommy Ryan (not to be confused with

266-482: The non-Labor forces. Since 1989, when the party came back to power after thirty-two years in Opposition, all its leaders have become Premiers despite two spells in Opposition in 1996–98 and 2012–2015. As of 2020, the Queensland branch has three factions: the right, headed by Annastacia Palaszczuk , the left, headed by Steven Miles , and the centralist faction, the Old Guard. Discounting Speaker Curtis Pitt , of

285-531: The party being broadly left-wing . Prior to 1908, the party also had a radical liberal faction, which split to form the Kidstonites in 1908. Over time, like other Labor/Labour parties, the party has shifted towards the centre-left of the political spectrum . The platform programme describes its founding principle as democratic socialism , while observers describe the Queensland Labor Party as social democratic , supporting labourism , which prioritises

304-580: The resignation of the Dickson ministry , Queensland Labour leader Anderson Dawson accepted an offer by Lieutenant-Governor Samuel Griffith to form a government. Trade unionists in Queensland had begun attempting to secure parliamentary representation as early as the mid-1880s. William McNaughton Galloway , the president of the Seamen's Union, mounted an unsuccessful campaign as an independent in an 1886 by-election . A Workers' Political Reform Association

323-518: The seat of Barcoo for the labour movement-run People's Parliamentary Association in 1892, and the Labor Party was formally established in Queensland following the first Labor-in-Politics Convention later that year. The Queensland branch subsequently formed the first Labor government in Australia, albeit briefly, when Anderson Dawson took office for a week in 1899 after a falling out between

342-610: Was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council . William Henry Campbell was born on 18 July 1846 at Jersey in the Channel Islands , the son of Major-General Charles Stewart Campbell and his wife Elizabeth Charlotte (née Dale). His father was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo and was retired. The family moved to England where William Campbell attended private primary schools and Bluecoat School,

361-554: Was founded to nominate candidates for the 1888 election , at which the Brisbane Trades and Labor Council endorsed six candidates. Thomas Glassey won the seat of Bundamba at that election, becoming the first self-identified "labor" MP in Queensland. The Queensland Provincial Council of the Australian Labor Federation was formed in 1889 in an attempt to unite Labor campaign efforts. Tommy Ryan won

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