Gladstone State School, Rockhampton Grammar School, Brisbane Grammar School
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University of Queensland (BA) Merton College, Oxford (BA)
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Barrister
Nickname
Red Fred
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Australia
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Australian Army
Years of service
1918–1919
Unit
Imperial Force
Battles/wars
World War I
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Frederick Woolnough Paterson (13 June 1897 – 7 October 1977) was an Australian politician, activist, unionist and lawyer. He is the only representative of the Communist Party of Australia to be elected to an Australian parliament.
about using a pick handle on "the 'Commie' FredPaterson" during Hayden's time as an officer. While Paterson was recovering, the Queensland branch of the...
Rhodes Scholars have taken on difficult social causes with more success. FredPaterson defended workers and unions at a reduced price, before he sat in parliament...
above 22,000 members. Although the party did not achieve a federal MP, FredPaterson was elected to the Parliament of Queensland (for Bowen) at the 1944...
for the City of Townsville to control various industries. In 1939, FredPaterson stood successfully as an alderman for the Townsville City Council, becoming...
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the Queensland State Committee of the Communist Party of Australia. FredPaterson was the chairman of the editorial board of the newspaper. The first...
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of the Communist Party of Australia had peaked at around 20,000 and FredPaterson had won the seat of Bowen in the 1944 Queensland state election. Communists...
fleeing postwar violence. In 1948, World War I veteran and politician FredPaterson was expelled from the organisation for being a communist. In 1940, the...
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Party. He held the seat for eight years before surprisingly losing to FredPaterson of the Communist Party at the 1944 state election. After losing his...
Retrieved 4 November 2011. Fitzgerald, Ross (1997). The people's champion, FredPaterson : Australia's only Communist Party member of parliament. University...
FredPaterson: Australia's only Communist Party Member of Parliament. University of Queensland Press. ISBN 978-0-7022-2959-6., about FredPaterson. Fitzgerald...
The Communist Party and its officers and members were represented by FredPaterson, Ted Laurie, Ted Hill and Max Julius. The unions were represented by...
having formed a coalition with local Communist councillors such as FredPaterson until 1946. Aikens was elected for the Electoral district of Mundingburra...
was blocked due to his communism; he took the matter to court with FredPaterson as his counsel. The judge found in his favour and he was admitted to...
and two were hospitalized. One of the men who was hospitalized was FredPaterson, Queensland Member of the Legislative Assembly for the seat of Bowen...
2000, pp 6–7. Retrieved 10 October 2008. Diane Menghetti, Paterson, Frederick Woolnough (Fred) (1897–1977) Archived 9 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine...
state or federal electorate in Australia to elect a Communist member, FredPaterson, who served as member for Bowen from the 1944 election until the 1950...
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