James McClelland (Australian politician)
- James McClelland (Australian politician)
James Robert "Diamond Jim" McClelland ( 3 June, 1915 – 16 January 1999) was a solicitor, a jurist, Senator, Minister in the Third Whitlam Ministry and Royal Commissioner looking at British nuclear tests in Australia and the first chief judge of the Land and Environment Court of NSW.
McClelland was born in Melbourne, Australia and educated at Melbourne University (B.A.) and Sydney University (Law) and began practising as a solicitor in Sydney in 1951. His practise dealt mainly with union workers compensation claims for the F.A.I., where he was associated with Laurie Short and he played a large part (with Bob Santamaria) in helping Short take control of the Union from Ernie Thornton.
He entered Federal Parliament as a New South Wales Senator in 1972 and in the Third Whitlam Ministry was Minister for Manufacturing Industry (10 February 1975 to 6 June 1975) and Minister for Labour and Immigration from 6 June 1975 to November 1975.
In 1984 he was President of the Royal Commission into British nuclear tests in Australia at Maralinga.
He was reviled by the right as is indicated in Roderick Meagher's portrait in Quadrant and associated with Edward Campion, Patrick White, Manning Clark and Donald Horne.
Family
McClelland married three times:
* in 1947 to Nora Fitzer with whom he adopted two children but divorced in 1968
* in 1968 to Freda Watson who brought three step children. She died in 1976
* in 1978 to Gillian Appletonborn in Ballarat
References
* [http://www.quadrant.org.au/php/article_view.php?article_id=1118 "Portraits: Jim McClelland"] , "Quadrant", June 2005 – 49:6 [Accessed 4 March 2006]
*James McClelland, (1988), "Stirring the Possum: A Political Autobiography", Penguin, Sydney ISBN 0-14-009764-3
*James McClelland, (1989), "An Angel Bit The Bride" Penguin ISBN 0-14-012831-X
*Gillian Appleton, (2000), "Diamond Cuts: An Affectionate Memoir of Jim McClelland" Macmillan ISBN 0-7329-1051-X
External links
* [http://www.whitlam.org/collection/1999/19990203_state_mem_servicefor_jim_mcclleland/ From the State Memorial Service for Jim McClelland] at The Whitlam Institute website
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