James Newton Haxton Hume Cook (1866-1942) Joseph Cook (1860-1947)

Member for Bourke (Victoria) 1901-1910 Member for Parramatta () 1901-1921

orn in Kihikihi, New Zealand, After leaving Parliament, Cook assisted orn in Silverdale, Staffordshire, England, Representatives. He was solid in his BJames Hume Cook arrived in Australia in W.M. Hughes with political activities and held BJoseph Cook migrated to the Lithgow opposition to the Protectionist Government 1881. An estate agent, Cook became involved various high-ranking positions in industrial district of New South Wales in 1885 to work behind his leader, , and grew in politics through an association with the organisations. He was made a fellow of the in the coalmines. A Methodist lay preacher increasingly estranged from the Labor Party. Australian Natives Association (ANA), and Royal Economic Society in 1936 for his for much of his adult life, he believed it his In 1908 he became Leader of the Freetrade represented East Bourke in the Victorian services to Protectionist causes on the duty to improve conditions for the working Party and in 1909 became Deputy Leader Legislative Assembly 1894-1900. He was recommendation of J.M. Keynes. Cook class from which he originated. He became and Minister for Defence in the Deakin Fusion Mayor of Brunswick, Victoria, in 1896. He was was appointed CMG in 1941. involved in union and labour movement Government. When Deakin resigned as an advocate of federation and urged the ANA activities, serving on the Labor Defence Prime Minister in 1913, Cook became leader to support the Constitution Bill produced by Committee in Lithgow during the maritime of the Liberal Party and subsequently the Australasian Federal Convention of 1897. strike in 1890. Prime Minister, a position which he held until his party’s defeat at the election A Protectionist with Labor sympathies, in the In 1891 he was elected as the Labor member following the in 1914. 1901 federal election Cook was elected to for Hartley in the New South Wales Legislative In 1917 Cook negotiated a coalition with represent the seat of Bourke in the House of Assembly. He refused, however, to sign the the Nationalists led by W.M. Hughes, and Representatives. Cook was Government Whip, Labor pledge in 1894 and continued on in the he attended the Imperial War Conference Cabinet Secretary and a minister without Assembly as an Independent Labor member, with Hughes in 1918. He was Treasurer portfolio in the second Deakin Ministry. He and accepted the position of Postmaster- in 1920-21. was defeated in the election of 1910. General in the 1894-98. Cook resigned from Parliament in 1921 and At the first federal elections in 1901 Cook was Australian High Commissioner in London was elected as a Freetrader to represent until 1927. He was knighted in 1918. the seat of Parramatta in the House of

The electorate of Bourke was named after Sir Richard Bourke (1777–1855), a Governor Th electorate of Parramatta was named after its locality. Parramatta is an Aboriginal word of New South Wales. meaning ‘plenty of eels’ or ‘head of river’.