Talk:Political families of Australia

message: *Crean family: Simon Crean and father, Frank Crean, plus another of Frank's sons, David Crean
*Wentworth family: there were a succession of William Wentworths in politics: William Wentworth, plus his great-grandson William Wentworth IV = William Wentworth (Australian politician) - The journalist Mungo MacCallum is his nephew.
*Cain family: John Cain (senior) and John Cain II. Probably something else too, but I know next to nothing about Victorian politics.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.19.152 (talk) 02:54, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions to be made 

message: I've spent a bit of time cleaning this page up.  I've got rid of a lot of over-linking, made terminology consistent, removed needless postnominal letters, added some facts (eg. Joseph Lyons was Premier and Leader of the Opposition in Tasmania before he was federal Opposition Leader and Prime Minister; Ray Groom was an MHR and Fraser govt Minister before his first retirement, and before resurrecting his career to become Premier of Tasmania; Justin O'Byrne was the first and by far the most prominent of the O'Byrnes, viz. President and Father of the Senate, but he wasn't mentioned at all), and some other tweaks.
I've also given some thought to formatting, and I'm trying out a tabular format on the Hodgman family.  Any comments would be appreciated before I extend this idea any further.  --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  09:58, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up + tabular format

message: How should we represent families with different surnames, e.g. Jack Melloy, Elaine Darling and Vicky Darling (3 generations)? Once - if so which surname do you pick? Under as many surnames as it takes?
Also how closely related do they need to be? Walter Russell Crampton is a cousin or cousin-once-removed from Jack Melloy.
Thanks Kerry (talk) 19:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps "Melloy-Darling family" for your first example  (or "Darling-Melloy")? As for the relations, I think it can definitely be relevant (the similar family relationship between Alex Douglas and Bob Katter was brought up a bunch of times in the last parliament) and have no problem being included, but maybe stick it underneath any immediate family relationships. The Drover's Wife (talk) 01:05, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few questions before I add some more ... 

message: Since the details of each person is presumably properly referenced in his/her's own entry, I fail to understand what kind of citations needs to be added. Trahelliven (talk) 23:49, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Citations that support the claimed relationship between them. I don't think we need citations that support that the individuals exist or that they are politicians (that should be in their own articles). Kerry (talk) 05:17, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  'needs additional citations for verification' 

message: The lede definition states:
:A political family of Australia (also called a political dynasty) is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics, particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage; often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
but the recent mass deletion by  begs the definition of "political family" and there can be no clear definition, but just two members is clearly sufficient if they are both distinguished and close relatives, e.g. the two South Australian Premiers, Thomas Playford II and his grandson Thomas Playford IV. Doug butler (talk) 21:05, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I neglected to mention the main reason I made the edit in the summary, which was to reduce the massive size of the page and clean up some of the very inconsistent formatting. I think a good compromise would be to only include two-member political families if both were close relatives and distinguished (aka Premiers, Cabinet Ministers or Prime Ministers). JML1148 (talk | contribs) 07:06, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political families