Albert Patrick Field was an Australian Labor Party member.
11 Facts About Albert Field
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Albert Field moved to Australia in 1926 and worked in mines and on sheep stations.
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Albert Field joined the Australian Labor Party in 1937 and became president of the Morningside branch of the party.
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Albert Field served in the Australian Army in New Guinea during World War II.
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Albert Field worked for the Queensland Education Department and was elected president of the Queensland branch of the Federated Furnishing Trade Society of Australasia in the early 1970s.
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Albert Field was conservative and religious and was openly critical of what he saw as a range of immoral policies being advanced by Whitlam and his government.
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Albert Field was expelled from the Labor Party for offering his name for Senate selection against the official ALP candidate.
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Albert Field had resigned from the Education Department immediately before his Senate appointment, but there was a dispute about whether he remained a public servant when appointed because the Education Act required him to give three weeks' notice.
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Albert Field had not given his maiden speech and had asked only a single question in Question Time.
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Albert Field formed his own party in 1976, which folded three years later, and he later joined the National Party.
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Albert Field was survived by a daughter and a stepdaughter.