I've mentioned before the two Prime Ministers of Australia who have identified as Cornish, Bob Hawke and Robert Menzies (Probably the two most iconic PMs you're ever likely to find). However there are many more heads of Australian government either actually born in the Cornish homeland (Kernow in the Cornish language) or else born into a Cornish Australian family.
George Pearce was acting prime minister for seven months in 1916 while Billy Hughes was overseas and remains the only Senator to have fulfilled the role of Prime Minister without resigning his Senate seat.
Premiers of South Australia
George Marsden Waterhouse
James Penn Boucaut
John Verran
Robert Richards
Don Dunstan
David Tonkin
(please tell me if you know of any more)
Premiers of Western Australia
John Scaddan
Albert Hawke
David Brand
John Trezise Tonkin
Premiers of Tasmania
Edward Braddon
John Earle
Premiers of Queensland
Anna Bligh
Premiers of Victoria
Albert Dunstan
Note should also be made of John Langdon Parsons who was Government Resident of the Northern Territory.
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