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Kissick, Theo
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- Kissick, Theophilus
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Dates of existence
1894-1984
History
Theophilus (Theo) Kissick was a train driver and union official, who served as a councillor and later state president of the Queensland division of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen (AFULE). He put his name forward for selection as an ALP candidate for Queensland at the federal senate election in 1934 and when he failed to make the ticket he was expelled from the party on announcing his candidacy as an Independent Labor candidate. He failed to win a seat. He played an important role in the Brisbane railway strike of 1948.
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Revised
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, Kymberley Doyle, 18-Mar-2025.
Revised, FF, 05-Jun-2020.
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Brian J Costar (1981). Labor, politics and unemployment: Queensland during the Great Depression, UQ PhD thesis, accessed online via UQ eSpace 05-Jun-2020.
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Revised dates of existence and other forms of name, Kymberley Doyle, 18-Mar-2025.
Revised with other form of name, updated history and authority record identifier, FF, 05-Jun-2020.