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Governors-General - Australia's Culture PortalThe Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...
The Great Depression (1929-32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Even before the devastating stock market crash on Wall Street (the centre of stock market trading in New York, United States of America), unemployment in Australia was...
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National Museum of Australia - James Scullin (website National Museum of Australia (NMA) )Jim Scullin was the first Catholic to become Australian Prime Minister, the first Prime Minister to have come from an Irish background, and the first Labor Prime Minister born in Australia. In 1903, Scullin joined the Political Labor Council (PLC), a fore...
James Scullin in the Memorial's Collection Collection Search: James Scullin> Browse the Memorial's collections of art, photographs, film, sound recordings, private records, military heraldry and technology for items related to James Scullin. Companion sit...
Scullin, J.H. Papers, 1921-1947. Collection Number: MS 5194Extent: 64 cm. Collection Number: MS 1538Extent: 35 metres (224 boxes) + folio itemsWilliam ('Billy') Morris Hughes' papers include correspondence, diaries and notebooks, newspaper cuttings, phot...
The 1956 Melbourne Olympics were the first to be held in Oceania, the only time ... The following is a List of notable Melburnians who come from or who have significant associations with Melbourne, Australia:> > A person from Melbourne is a Melburnian, or...
Australia's prime ministers have been quite an eclectic bunch. Perhaps such prime ministers have found success because they haved appealed to the Australian voter looking for some kind of human frailty to identify with. Alternatively, they may have foun...
'"This is the foulest libel that was ever written' Mr Galbally, Counsel for the Prosecution against Frank Hardy as quoted by DAILY TELEGRAPH 1950'We have been consulted by Mr and Mrs John Wren and members of their family, and we note that you are selling ...
John West rose from a Melbourne slum to dominate Australian politics with bribery, brutality and fear. For months during the post-war years, an Australian court heard evidence in a sensational libel action brought by businessman John Wren's wife. '"This...
'"This is the foulest libel that was ever written' Mr Galbally, Counsel for the Prosecution against Frank Hardy as quoted by DAILY TELEGRAPH 1950'We have been consulted by Mr and Mrs John Wren and members of their family, and we note that you are selling ...
'"This is the foulest libel that was ever written' Mr Galbally, Counsel for the Prosecution against Frank Hardy as quoted by DAILY TELEGRAPH 1950'We have been consulted by Mr and Mrs John Wren and members of their family, and we note that you are selling ...
The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia represents the monarch of Australia - currently Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The functions and roles of the Governor-General include appointing ambassadors, ministers and judges, giving Royal Ass...
The Great Depression (1929-32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Labor Prime Minister James Scullin was Australia's first Catholic Prime Minister and the first to be of Irish descent. James Scullin's Labor government, with its inte...
On 20 June 2006 the Minister for the Environment and Heritage published a notice including Old Parliament House and its National Heritage values in the National Heritage List in which there were factual errors relating to the National Heritage values. C...
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In summary, the Corporate Plan is intended to ensure we keep sight of our central purpose and that the ABC maintains the support of the Australian people and its unique significance within Australian cultural life. ABC Commercial 42 ABC Shops 103 ABC Ce...
examines John Greig Latham's reaction to the Statute of Westminster. politics, Latham has not been a focus of much study. governments to damage Imperial relations....
DATE RANGE: 1914- 1974 SIZE OFCOLLECTION: 1.7 metres (10 archive boxes) DATE OFTRANSFER: 1976, 1997 ACCESSCONDITIONS: Open HISTORICAL NOTE: Percival Edgar Deane was born in Melbourne in 1890. Collection: Percival E. DEANE Accession: 76/ 74 & 97/ 157 BoxN...
THE NEW, three-and-a-half shelf-metre, 62.5 million-word Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) brings to mind what Dante Gabriel Rossetti (q.v.) once wrote about Top, his pet wombat (d. In sixty volumes, the ODNB covers 54,922 lives in 50,113 bi...
THE NEW, three-and-a-half shelf-metre, 62.5 million-word Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB) brings to mind what Dante Gabriel Rossetti (q.v.) once wrote about Top, his pet wombat (d. In sixty volumes, the ODNB covers 54,922 lives in 50,113 bi...
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