of the Caucus and formed the National Labor ministry. Hughes called the 1917 federal election, and O'Malley was heavily defeated in his northern Tasmanian seat of Darwin by former Labor colleague Charles Howroyd, a conscriptionist who was running for Hughes' Nationalist Party. O'Malley suffered a swing of almost 15 percent, and was one of many Labor figures swept out in that year's massive Nationalist landslide. He stood unsuccessfully in the seat of Denison in 1919, and in Bass in 1922, but he was never again returned to elected office. Others On 23 April 1902, during the debate on the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 and the question of Maori suffrage, he exclaimed that "an aboriginal is not as intelligent as a Maori. There is no scientific evidence that he is a human being at all." Later life Although he was only 63 at the time of his defeat, he retired to Melbourne and devoted his time to building up his own legend, particularly in relation to the Commonwealth Bank, and to polemical journalism on a variety of pet causes. He lived to be about 95, outliving his nemesis Hughes by 14 months. At the time of his death he was the last surviving member of the first Australian Parliament and last surviving MP who served when Edmund Barton was Prime Minister. Furthermore, he was the last surviving member of Andrew Fisher's second Cabinet. Legacy O'Malley's importance in developing the national capital is remembered in Canberra with the suburb of O'Malley being named after him. A pub in Canberra, King O'Malley's Irish Pub in Civic, is also named after him – a tongue-in-cheek reference to his sponsorship of the unpopular alcohol ban in the Australian Capital Territory during Canberra's early years. More importantly, he and his wife Amy left their estate to create scholarships to support students studying "domestic economy" (now translated as Home Economics). Thirty scholarships were to be awarded annually, proportionally across the states and territories according to their then population. The first of these scholarships was awarded by the King and Amy O'Malley Trust in 1986 and they continue to be awarded . O'Malley is the subject of a 1970 musical play The Legend of King O'Malley by Michael Boddy and Bob Ellis. See also History of Canberra Notes References Further reading External links King & Amy O'Malley Trust |- Members of the Australian House of Representatives Members of