The Honourable Carlo Lazzarini
Colonial Secretary of New South Wales
In office 17 June 1925 – 26 May 1927
Premier	Jack Lang
Preceded by	Charles Oakes
Succeeded by	Mark Gosling
Minister for State Industrial Enterprises
In office 20 December 1921 – 13 April 1922
Premier	James Dooley
Preceded by	Stephen Perdriau
Succeeded by	Thomas Henley
In office 10 October – 20 December 1921
Premier	James Dooley
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Stephen Perdriau
Member of theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly for theWestern Suburbs
In office 20 March 1920 – 8 October 1927 Serving with Edward McTiernan,Tom Hoskins,Sydney Shillington/John Ness andJames Wilson/Milton Jarvie
Preceded by	Electorate established
Succeeded by	Electorate abolished
Member of theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly forMarrickville
In office 8 October 1927 – 26 November 1952
Preceded by	Himself (re-established)
Succeeded by	Norm Ryan
In office 24 March 1917 – 20 March 1920
Preceded by	Thomas Crawford
Succeeded by	Electorate abolished Himself (re-established)
Personal details
Born	(1880-04-24)24 April 1880 Wombat,Colony of New South Wales
Died	26 November 1952(1952-11-26) (aged 72) Lewisham,New South Wales, Australia
Resting place	Rookwood Cemetery
Political party	Industrial Labor(1936–1939) Lang Labor(1932–1936) Labor(until 1932; from 1939)
Spouse	Myra Hurley ​ (m. 1919⁠–⁠1952)​
Relations	Bert Lazzarini (brother)

Carlo Camillo Lazzarini (Italian:[ˈkarlokaˈmilloladdzaˈriːni]; 24 April 1880 – 26 November 1952), also known asCharlie Lazzarini, was an Australian politician affiliated with theLabor Party. He was elected as a member of theNew South Wales Legislative Assembly, where he served for 35 years.

The son ofItalian immigrant Piedro (Peter) Lazzarini and his wife Hannah (Annie) Stubbs, Lazzarini was born atWombat, nearYoung,New South Wales. He was educated at the Young convent school and Young Superior Public School, before becoming a tailor's apprentice.^[1][2]

Lazzarini became active in the union movement and the Labor Party, joining the Young Labor League in 1899. He became secretary and president of the league and was campaign secretary forChris Watson in the1898 New South Wales election and thefirst federal election in 1901. He was also strongly involved in the predominantlyIrishCatholic community, acting as district secretary of theHibernian Australasian Catholic Benefit Society and attending the founding meeting of the Irish National Association.

After moving toSydney, Lazzarini was secretary and president of theFederated Clothing Trades' Union from 1912 to 1917. A member of the moderates faction, he was strongly againstconscription in theFirst World War, and in 1916 became a founding member of the Industrial Vigilance Committee, which was responsible later that year for the expulsion from the Labor Party of conscription advocates such as prime ministerBilly Hughes and premierWilliam Holman. On this committee until 1919, he was also a member of the party central executive in 1916 and 1917, and was vice-president of the No Imperial Federation League in 1917.

At the1917 state election, Lazzarini was elected as member forMarrickville, defeatingThomas Crawford, who had left the Labor Party. He was the first member of theNew South Wales parliament with an Italian name, and two years later his brotherBert Lazzarini became the first member of thefederal parliament with an Italian name when he won the seat ofWerriwa. In the same year, on 26 April 1919, Carlo married Myra Hurley at St Brigid's church inMarrickville. They had one son.

In 1920, the Legislative Assembly was elected from multi-member districts, and Lazzarini was elected as one of the members forWestern Suburbs. He was Labor Party whip in 1920–21, and minister for state industrial enterprises in 1921–22. From 1922 until 1925 he was a member of the Catholic-reformist group and opposed union extremists in favour of majority parliamentary opinion. In 1923, he also served as vice president of the Australian Industrial Christian Fellowship Council.

Appointed toJack Lang's firstcabinet as chief secretary in 1925, Lazzarini was one of the Labor parliamentarians who clashed with Lang over proposed regulations in 1926. He was subsequently dropped from the cabinet in May 1927, after also serving two months as acting secretary for mines. The Lang government lost power at the1927 election, however Lazzarini was re-elected by the reinstated seat of Marrickville. Labor regained government in 1930, only to lose it after controversies of 1932, culminating in thegovernor withdrawing Lang's commission. Lazzarini maintained his opposition to Lang and his dictatorial style, one of the few in the New South Walescaucus to openly do so. As a result, he and others were expelled from the party in August 1936, only to be readmitted to the federal unity conference in 1937.

Lazzarini joined theIndustrial Labor Party in 1938, and continued to apply pressure to Lang, who was finally ousted in August 1939. Lazzarini served as an assistant minister in the next Labor government from 1941 until 1944. He was still member for Marrickville, in his 13th term as a member of parliament, when he died of heart disease inLewisham in 1952. Carlo's great-great-grandniece isCourtney Houssos who is a member of theNew South Wales Legislative Council

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