Alick Kay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician and Domain orator
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Place of Birth: Petersham, New South Wales, Australia
About Alick Kay
- Alick Dudley Kay (3 October 1884 – 4 February 1961) was an Australian politician and Domain orator.
- He is described by the Australian Dictionary of Biography as a "harmless ratbag".Kay was born in the Sydney suburb of Petersham, New South Wales and educated at Petersham and Stanmore public schools.
- He worked in a wholesale warehouse and in 1913 married Mary Elizabeth Clasby, a 52-year-old widow with five children (one of her sons, John Clasby, was briefly a federal MP).
- He was given a state funeral.
- Alick became a clerk with New South Wales Government Railways and joined the army in 1915.Kay ran unsuccessfully for the federal seat of South Sydney for the Nationalist Party in 1917.
- In 1918 he left the Nationalists and started appearing regularly as an anti-Communist speaker at Sydney Domain.
- He also travelled regularly to Melbourne to orate next to the Yarra.
- In 1925, he won one of the five seats of North Shore under proportional representation in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as an independent.
- In parliament, he regularly voted with Labor to the horror of his former supporters.
- Under the electoral system, the Labor Party automatically won his position if he resigned, so Jack Lang offered him a position on the Metropolitan Meat Board in 1926 as a consumers' representative.
- The Thomas Bavin government passed legislation in 1927 to remove him from the board.
- After Lang's return to power in 1930, he was reappointed to the board, but was sacked again by the Bertram Stevens government.In 1933, Kay travelled to England.
- His wife had died and he married Dorothy Edith Gamson at Islington in June 1943.
- He later claimed to have worked for the British Department of Information during World War II.
- In 1951, he returned to Sydney, and resumed speaking at the Domain on Sundays.
- He died in the Sydney suburb of Mosman, survived by his wife.
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