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4 unusual facts about Walter Griffiths


Secessionism in Western Australia

In early 1900, Walter Griffiths travelled to London on behalf of the Eastern Goldfields Reform League executive, to present the petition to the British government and lobby the Colonial Office to either approve Auralia's separation, or force Western Australia to accept Federation.

Walter Griffiths

Born in Kent Town, South Australia, the son of Frederick Griffiths, a wealthy ironmonger, and his wife Helen, née Giles, Griffiths attended St Aloysius College and Saint Peter's College in Adelaide.

While the suffrage bill succeeded, Griffiths was comfortably re-elected at the subsequent election.

At the 1893 South Australian election Griffiths was elected, along with Solomon, to the Northern Territory seat.



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