A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 257
... Canberra , for many years the joke of Australians and visitors from overseas as ' mostly a city of foundation stones ' was about to become the seat of the Parliament and Government of Australia . The Parliament House overlooking the ...
... Canberra , for many years the joke of Australians and visitors from overseas as ' mostly a city of foundation stones ' was about to become the seat of the Parliament and Government of Australia . The Parliament House overlooking the ...
Page 308
... Canberra . They met on one of those golden mornings in late May 1929 in a part of Old Australia which has bred the men and women of heroic ingredients , the ones who would never give in . Bruce told them the situation confronting ...
... Canberra . They met on one of those golden mornings in late May 1929 in a part of Old Australia which has bred the men and women of heroic ingredients , the ones who would never give in . Bruce told them the situation confronting ...
Page 324
... Canberra , instead of living in luxury in the Prime Minister's Lodge in Canberra . To ensure privacy he asked the man- ager of the Hotel Canberra to screen his wife and himself from the other diners . But that was as a gnat to a ...
... Canberra , instead of living in luxury in the Prime Minister's Lodge in Canberra . To ensure privacy he asked the man- ager of the Hotel Canberra to screen his wife and himself from the other diners . But that was as a gnat to a ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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