Walter Woods (politician)
Walter Alan Woods (28 December 1861 – 28 February 1939) was an Australian Labor politician and journalist.
He was born Walter William Head at Oakleigh, Victoria on 28 December 1861. He later used various names throughout his life.[1]
Parliamentary career
In 1906 he was elected to the
Journalist career
In 1891 he was one of the founders of the Labor newspaper The Hummer, a forerunner of The Australian Worker.[1]
On moving to Launceston in 1895, he was editor of The Tasmanian Democrat,[1] then moved to Hobart and took over the editorship of The Clipper, which he transformed into a Labor publication.[3]
He also wrote, as "John Drayman", several bush ballads, the best known being I Don't Go Shearing Now.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Marilyn Lake, 'Woods, Walter Alan (1861–1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/woods-walter-alan-9180/text16211, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 17 March 2015.
- ^ "Woods, Walter Alan". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- Voice. Vol. 12, no. 10. Tasmania, Australia. 11 March 1939. p. 5. Retrieved 30 October 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
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