Alfred William Anderson was an Australian butcher and entrepreneur.

Anderson was born in East Brighton

Brighton, Victoria

Brighton is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Bayside. At the 2006 Census, Brighton had a population of 20,651...

 in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 to butcher John Charles Anderson and Elizabeth, née Jervis, and was raised a Methodist. The family moved to Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

, and the younger Anderson left school at 14. He opened a butchery in Perth

Perth, Western Australia

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 in 1911. On 22 June 1912 he married Elizabeth Maud Gilbert at St Luke's Anglican Church in Cottesloe

Cottesloe, Western Australia

-Transport:Cottesloe is served by Swanbourne, Grant Street, Cottesloe, Mosman Park and Victoria Street railway stations on the Fremantle line. Various bus routes along Stirling Highway and through the suburb's western and eastern sections link Cottesloe to Perth and Fremantle. All services are...

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Anderson moved to Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 in 1918 and became a sausage manufacturer, registering his own companies A. W. Anderson Pty Ltd and Anderson's Sausages Pty Ltd. By 1923, with branches across Sydney and Newcastle

Newcastle, New South Wales

The Newcastle metropolitan area is the second most populated area in the Australian state of New South Wales and includes most of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Local Government Areas...

, he also had an interest in the Homebush Bay abattoirs, and in 1924 set up works in Lismore

Lismore, New South Wales

Lismore is a subtropical town in northeastern New South Wales, Australia. Lismore is the main population centre in the City of Lismore local government area. Lismore is a regional centre in the Northern Rivers region of the State.-History:...

, Tuncester and Byron Bay. He was able to prosper during the Great Depression

Great Depression

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 and acquired Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 meatworks at Wallangarra and Karumba.

Anderson launched his own political party, One Parliament for Australia

One Parliament for Australia

One Parliament for Australia was a minor Australian political party that contested several elections in 1943, including the federal, New South Wales, and Queensland elections. It was founded by butcher and company owner Alfred Anderson....

, in 1943 at Sydney Town Hall

Sydney Town Hall

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, advocating a government free of party politics. He contested Richmond

Division of Richmond

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 at the 1943 federal election

Australian federal election, 1943

Federal elections were held in Australia on 21 August 1943. All 74 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Australian Labor Party led by Prime Minister of Australia John Curtin easily defeated the opposition Country Party led...

 and received 20% of the vote, but the party soon dissolved. Anderson's companies, on the other hand, continued to prosper, as through the 1940s he expanded further into Queensland. He founded Andersons Island Industries Ltd in the Northern Territory

Northern Territory

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 and Andersons Meat Industries Ltd in 1953, as well as being instrumental in the foundation of the Byron Whaling Co. Pty Ltd in 1954.

Anderson, who suffered from diabetes, died in 1956 of heart disease

Heart disease

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 at Strathfield and was buried at Waverley

Waverley, New South Wales

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