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Bert Milliner was born on 17 July, 1911 in Kelvin Grove, Queensland, is an Australian politician. Discover Bert Milliner's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?

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Occupation Unionist
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 17 July, 1911
Birthday 17 July
Birthplace Kelvin Grove, Queensland
Date of death 30 June, 1975
Died Place Brisbane, Queensland
Nationality Australia

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1911

Bertie Richard "Bert" Milliner (17 July 1911 – 30 June 1975) was an Australian trade unionist, politician and Senator, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

He would have been a minor figure in Australia's political history but for the events that followed his sudden death.

1934

He joined the Queensland Printing Employees' Union and was elected in 1934 to the board of management.

1938

On 26 March 1938 he married Thelma Elizabeth Voght, a schoolteacher.

1947

Milliner represented Small Unions (1947–50) and his own union (from 1950) on the Queensland central executive of Labor.

1949

Since the introduction of proportional voting in 1949 it had been a convention that when a casual vacancy arose through the resignation or death of a senator mid-term, the relevant state parliament would replace the senator with a person nominated by the departed senator's political party.

On this occasion Labor nominated the unsuccessful candidate Mal Colston, however the Queensland Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen asked for a list of three names, which Labor refused to supply.

Bjelke-Peterson then invited nominations from any financial member of the Labor Party.

Albert Field, who was a Labor member but was openly critical of the Whitlam government, applied and was appointed by the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Labor immediately expelled Field from the party because he accepted an appointment contrary to its wishes.

Labor challenged his appointment in the High Court, arguing that he was still technically employed by the Queensland Public Service (an office of profit under the Crown) at the time of his acceptance of the appointment because he had resigned, but without giving the required two weeks' notice.

Consequently, Field was on leave from the Senate for all but a few days of his term.

The death of Milner and his replacement by Field was one of the factors that enabled the Senate to block the Whitlam government's supply bills, which in turn led to the government's dismissal.

1952

A delegate to the Trades and Labor Council of Queensland, he was a member of the executive (from 1952) and treasurer (1960–67).

1954

As trade-union adviser on the Australian delegations, he travelled to Geneva to attend the thirty-seventh (1954) and forty-eighth (1964) sessions of the International Labour Conference.

1957

At the meeting called in April 1957 to consider the situation of the then Labor Premier of Queensland, Vince Gair, he moved that there be further negotiations before the premier's expulsion from Labor was discussed; when his proposal was rejected, he voted with the TLC group to expel Gair.

Milliner was a competent chairman who tried to achieve unity, to broaden the party's electoral base, and to encourage the involvement of women and the young.

1962

In 1962 Milliner had unsuccessfully sought party nomination to be considered by the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for a casual vacancy in the Senate following the death of Max Poulter.

Labor had nominated the unsuccessful candidate, Alf Arnell, however he was rejected by the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Labor then nominated George Whiteside who was appointed.

1963

An active and influential State party manager, he chaired the rules committee, held office as vice-president for a term, and was president in 1963–68.

1966

His leadership proved decisive in winning party support in Queensland for Gough Whitlam in his confrontation with Labor's federal executive in February 1966.

1967

At the 1967 election he won a seat in the Senate.

1968

His term began on 1 July 1968.

1974

He sat on ten parliamentary committees and in 1974 was appointed temporary Chairman of Committees in the Senate.

1975

Those circumstances contributed to the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of the Prime Minister, Gough Whitlam, by the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr.

Milliner was born at Kelvin Grove, Brisbane.

He attended the local state school, served an apprenticeship as a compositor at the Queensland Government Printing Office and became a linotype-operator.

Milliner died suddenly of a heart attack on 30 June 1975 in his Brisbane office.

The question of his replacement then arose.

1977

Milliner's son Glen was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1977 to 1998.