George McDonald (Australian politician)
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The Honourable George McDonald |
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| Member of the New South Wales Parliament for Bingara |
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In office 14 October 1910 – 5 February 1920 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Moore |
| Succeeded by | Seat abolished |
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29 January 1883 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Died | 28 July 1951 (aged 68) Bellevue Hill, New South Wales |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Political party |
Labor (1910–16) Independent (1916–17) Nationalist (1917–20) |
| Spouse(s) | May Camille Dezarnaulds |
| Occupation | Barrister |
George Roy William McDonald (29 January 1883 – 28 July 1951) was an Australian politician.
McDonald was born in Sydney, the son of mining engineer George McDonald and his wife Margaret McNamara. He was educated in public schools in the Parramatta district and became a deposition clerk in the Justice Department at Broken Hill in 1901. After transferral to the ministerial office in Sydney, his career as a clerk continued through appointments as Clerk of Petty Sessions at Goulburn, Albury and finally Bathurst. He resigned in 1908 and began a crown land and mining agency in Tamworth, acquiring a similar business in Sydney from 1911 to 1919.
McDonald was called to the Bar in 1927 and admitted as a solicitor in 1937, establishing his own firm. He was also vice-president of the NRMA in 1924 and continued to be involved with that body.
In 1910, McDonald was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Bingara. He remained as a Labor member until the State Conference of April 1916, when the conference censured the Labor Government over premier William Holman's failure to appoint Labor members to the Legislative Council. Holman's subsequent resignation as Labor leader and replacement with John Storey, and then the conference's reversal of opinion and reinstatement of Holman as leader, caused something of a farce. During this conference, McDonald resigned both as member for Bingara and from the Labor Party, winning re-election at a by-election as an Independent after Liberal Leader Charles Wade arranged for no conservative opposition. By the 1917 state election, McDonald had joined the new Nationalist Party, and won election under that designation.
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