Talk:Donald Campbell (Australian politician)

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I think Jaensch may be wrong in listing Campbell as having been NDL in 1906. NDL to Labor would be a particularly bizarre switch (unlike say LDU to Labor with Ephraim Coombe), I've never heard of it otherwise, and this, this, this and this suggest that he was in fact Labor. I can find zero sources from 1906 connecting him to the NDL/ANL. The Drover's Wife (talk) 12:23, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ah the joys of century-old SA. Sufficiently cite it and i'm fine. I hate to rely on something that's got an error :/ All good with John Travers? Timeshift (talk) 12:26, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I've taken issue before with Jaensch's attention to detail about parties, including (perhaps especially in) his book about minor parties but also here. I basically think it's useful in SA as a starting point to save an incredible amount of hairsplitting research on our part, but that we shouldn't hesitate to not use it in the not unlikely case we find more errors.

He seems to have cocked up with Travers too: this, this, this and this make it pretty clear that Travers was always a Liberal. Interestingly, I found this which bizarrely calls Travers and Inkster "Socialists", but no source that I've seen refers to Inkster as Labor, and no other seems to refer to Travers as such, which makes me think that Register journalist either hated Liberals or was smoking crack. The Drover's Wife (talk) 13:29, 25 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]