Thomas Paterson, born November 20, 1882, in Aston, Warwickshire, England, and died January 24, 1952, in McKinnon, Victoria, was an Australian politician who represented the Division of Gippsland in Victoria from 1922 to 1943 and served as deputy leader of the Country Party from 1929 to 1937. He served as Minister for Markets and Migration from June 18, 1926, to January 19, 1928, then as Minister for Markets until December 1928, and then as Minister for Markets and Transport until October 1929, under Prime Ministers Stanley Bruce and later Joseph Lyons, championing a dairy export subsidy funded by a tax on Australian consumers that earned him the nickname Paterson's Curse among opponents; he later served as Minister for the Interior from 1934 to 1937.
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Defining ContributionCampaigned for a dairy export subsidy paid for by a tax on Australian consumers 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Thomas Paterson
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1882-11-20
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1952-01-24
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was an Australian politician
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campaigned for a subsidy for dairy exports to be paid for by a tax on Australian consumers
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