Albert Bussau
Sir Albert Louis Bussau 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. He was a founding member of the Victorian Wheatgrowers Association, 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 was Attorney-General and Solicitor-General in the government of Albert Dunstan between 2 April 1935, and 1 April 1938. Bussau resigned to become Agent-General for Victoria 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.
