about his performance as Agent-General led to Hill's resignation from that position in August 1934 and his return to South Australia, where he joined the LCL and sought preselection. This failed to materialise but Hill was appointed in 1936 by the federal government to chair the ACT Industrial Board. Hill returned to South Australia in 1958 and found the lure of politics too great, successfully standing for the Town of Kensington and Norwood council. Death Any plans of further electoral success were stymied only by his death in 1963. Thirty years after his departure from the ALP, he was still disliked by many Laborites with long memories. Ross McMullin, in his history of the Labor Party, The Light on the Hill, describes him as one of the worst Labor leaders federally or in any state. See also First Hill Ministry References Australian Dictionary of Biography Norwood Football Club profile External links |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- |- 1881 births 1963 deaths Australian rules footballers from South Australia Norwood Football Club players Australian Rules footballers: place kick exponents Premiers of South Australia Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia Treasurers of South Australia Leaders of the Opposition in South Australia 20th-century Australian politicians