A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 260
... Commonwealth and the States on a permanent basis . Both possessed sovereign powers : it was most undesirable that there should be hostility . He wanted to remove from the minds of the State Premiers the suspicion that the Commonwealth ...
... Commonwealth and the States on a permanent basis . Both possessed sovereign powers : it was most undesirable that there should be hostility . He wanted to remove from the minds of the State Premiers the suspicion that the Commonwealth ...
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... Commonwealth contribution to the great ' Imper- ial Firm ' which they had toasted that night on the Molonglo Plains . Lang was not happy . The end of per capita payments would not be fair to New South Wales . If the Commonwealth ...
... Commonwealth contribution to the great ' Imper- ial Firm ' which they had toasted that night on the Molonglo Plains . Lang was not happy . The end of per capita payments would not be fair to New South Wales . If the Commonwealth ...
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... Commonwealth had submitted its proposals to the States , which had agreed to them . The Commonwealth Government was now asking the Parliament to ratify that agreement , and to agree that the consequential need to amend the Constitution ...
... Commonwealth had submitted its proposals to the States , which had agreed to them . The Commonwealth Government was now asking the Parliament to ratify that agreement , and to agree that the consequential need to amend the Constitution ...
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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