T J Ryan was a great reforming Queensland Labor Premier (1915-1919). He set in place an ambitious program which saw successive Labor governments intervene in the economy, social affairs, parliamentary structure and industrial relations at an unprecedented level between 1915 and 1929. While this level of state interventionism was unprecedented, it did not come as a massive shock to the Queensland electorate. Between 1859 and 1915, politicians espousing progressive liberal values had incrementally raised the expectations of Queensland electors about the role which government could play in the social, industrial, electoral and economic affairs of citizens. This essay traces the creation of the wider electoral environment which made the Ryan Labor government possible.
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TJ Ryan Foundation
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Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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