Albert Bussau

Sir Albert Louis Bussau (9 July 1884 – 5 May 1947) was an Australian politician.

He was born in Natimuk to carpenter and farmer Johann Joachim Heinrich Adolph Bussau and Maria Ernestina Rokesky. He attended state school and studied by correspondence with the University of Melbourne, becoming an articled clerk. He worked as such in Warracknabeal, Beulah and Hopetoun. On 22 April 1912 he married schoolteacher Mary Scott Baird. From 1915 he farmed at Hopetoun, and he served on Karkarooc Shire Council from 1921 to 1932 (president from 1926 to 1927). He was a founding member of the Victorian Wheatgrowers Association (president 1933), and president of the Country Progressive Party in 1929. From 1931 to 1932 he was vice-president of the United Country Party. In 1932 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Ouyen. He served until 1938, when he resigned to become Agent-General in London. Knighted in 1941, he returned from London in 1944, becoming inaugural chairman of the Australian Wheat Board in 1945. Bussau died at South Yarra in 1947.^[1]

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