Thomas Crush

In May 1901, Crush founded and became secretary of the Brocks Creek branch of the North Australian League, which fought for local issues.

[6] In parliament, Crush pushed for Northern Territory-related issues, like the direction of the Darwin to Adelaide railway[1] and, with Fannie's help, was comfortably re-elected at the 1910 South Australian legislative election, with John Alexander Voules Brown as his colleague.

[3] Crush believed it would only be a short time before the Northern Territory was granted political representation in the Parliament of Australia and declared his intention to run at the federal election.

[6] However, Crush's health began to deteriorate and after a lengthy stay at Darwin Hospital, he died of heart failure on 27 August 1913, aged about 48.

[8] Called "a fluent and quietly convincing speaker"[3] and gaining recognition for his "unassuming good nature and sincerity" around Adelaide,[3] South Australian Labor colleagues erected a memorial to him at his burial place in the Darwin Pioneer Cemetery.