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Tue 2 Nov 1993 - The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995)
Page 10 - Watson a British subject
Watson a British subject
By NORMAN ABJORENSEN
The daughter of Australia's first
Labor Prime Minister, John Chris
tian Watson, has hit back at sugges
tions that her father might have
been a Chilean citizen, and not a
British subject (therefore ineligible
to be a Member of Parliament).
"My mother was always adamant
that my father was bom at sea, in
international waters," Jacqueline
Dunn said from her Sydney home
yesterday.
Mrs Dunn said she had been an
gered by suggestions, reported in
The Canberra Times, that her father
might have been a Chilean citizen.
(Last month, the President of
Chile, Patricio Aylwin, and Paul
Keating unveiled a memorial in Par
liament House to Watson, whose
birthplace is listed as Valparaiso,
Chile).
According to Mrs Dunn, her
grandfather - Watson's father -
ensured that his wheat clipper, the
Julia, was 50 miles off the Chilean
coast when his child was born so
Labor PM was
born at sea.
says daughter
that he could claim his mother's
British citizenship. (Watson's fa
ther, Johan Tanck, was a German).
"If he had been born with Chilean
nationality - and his parents were
well aware of this - he could have
been required to come back and do
military service in Chile," she said.
Two researchers working on a
biography of Watson, Prime Minis
ter for four months in 1904, former
federal Labor minister A1 Grassby
and Chilean journalist Silvia Ordo
nez, say evidence suggests that
Watson may have been a Chilean
citizen, but so far no documents
have been found to support either
view.
Mr Grassby says Watson (whose
7
mother was later remarried to a man
called Watson) went to considerable
lengths to invent a British pedigree
because a Chilean-German called
Tanck (his father's name) would not
have had a political career in the
Australia of the time.
Mrs Dunn says this is nonsense
"because my father did not have to
invent anything".
She is sorry the portrait of her
father is not on display at Parlia
ment House, and wonders if this is
because of lingering Labor resent
ment over his expulsion from the
ALP during World War I for sup
porting conscription.
However, a spokesman for the
Joint House Department said yes
terday that the portrait by John
Longstaff was in Parliament House,
but not in the public area.
"It's huge, too big for a building
like this. But we have it on the wall
in the executive wing where it is
inspiring Paul Keating and his
ministers," he said.
Watson died in 1941.
Article identifier
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APA citation
Watson a British subject (1993, November 2).The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), p. 10. Retrieved April 6, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127521763
MLA citation
"Watson a British subject"The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) 2 November 1993: 10. Web. 6 Apr 2025 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127521763>.
Harvard/Australian citation
1993 'Watson a British subject',The Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995), 2 November, p. 10. , viewed 06 Apr 2025, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127521763
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{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article127521763 |title=Watson a British subject |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |volume=68, |issue=21,385 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=2 November 1993 |accessdate=6 April 2025 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}

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