Clarence Goode

Clarence Goode (17 August 1875 – 30 April 1969) was a farmer and politician in South Australia. Descendants pronounce the family name to rhyme with "wood".

Clarence was born at Canowie Station the son of Thomas Goode. He was educated privately and at the Canowie Public School, then at Frederick Caterer's Glenelg Grammar School. He was for many years occupied in farming and grazing (at Laura then with Albert Powell at Booyoolie estate near Gladstone), and was elected Councillor for the Corporate Town of Gladstone in December 1902, and was returned unopposed two years later. He was for some time Chairman of the Gladstone branch of the Agricultural Bureau. At the 1905 election he was returned to the Assembly at the head of the poll for Stanley for the United Labor Party with colleagues Harry Jackson and William Cole, and was re-elected at the 1906, 1910, 1912 and 1915 elections, with colleague Peter Reidy. Goode joined the National Party in 1917 but left in 1918, he later clarified that he had only resigned from the parliamentary National Party. Goode opted to retire to give Reidy a clear run rather than recontest as an independent. He served as Commissioner of Crown Lands and Minister of Agriculture in the Crawford Vaughan Labor government from 3 April 1915 to 14 July 1917 in what was criticised as the "Family Ministry" (Attorney-General John Howard Vaughan being the Premier's brother and Clarence his brother-in-law). Goode was one of the Vaughan Government ministers whom A. T. Saunders singled out for complicity in shady land deals, notably the purchase, from colleagues, of land at inflated prices to be passed on in 200-acre lots to First AIF soldiers ("soldier-settlers").

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