Sir George Stephenson Beeby KBE (23 May 1869 – 18 July 1942) was an Australian politician, judge and author.
He had become interested in the land taxation proposals of Henry George in 1890 and was prominent in the beginnings of the New South Wales Labor Party.
[5] Beeby won the seat of Blayney for the Labor Party at the 1907 election, and with William Holman was successful in considerably modifying the amending industrial disputes bill brought in by Charles Wade.
[6] Prior to the 1913 state election, he created the National Progressive Party and ran a slate of 10 candidates.
When Holman formed his Nationalist ministry in November 1916 Beeby again was appointed Minister for Labour and Industry with a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council.
Towards the end of 1918 he visited Britain and the United States and, shortly after his return in June 1919, resigned from the government as a protest against administrative acts in connexion with the sale of wheat and the allotting of coal contracts.
One daughter, Doris Isobel Beeby (1894–1948), was a communist party member and sought higher women's wages.
[12] Beeby was the author of Three Years of Industrial Arbitration in New South Wales (1906), a pamphlet; Concerning Ordinary People (1923), a volume of readable plays; In Quest of Pan (1924), a satire in verse on some of the Australian poets of the period; and A Loaded Legacy, a light novel which appeared in 1930.