A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 85
... conservatives to win the vital middle vote at an Australian election . Hughes had one other asset . As an ex - Labor man he had the habit of vibrat ing ' with sympathy for the downtrodden masses ' . Hughes could do this , they said , as ...
... conservatives to win the vital middle vote at an Australian election . Hughes had one other asset . As an ex - Labor man he had the habit of vibrat ing ' with sympathy for the downtrodden masses ' . Hughes could do this , they said , as ...
Page 366
... conservatives renewed their call for a ' Government of all the talents ' . Australia should dissipate the odour of Mungana , and all the wild talk about ' funny money ' , if they did not want to become ' rickshaw - men ' . Leagues and ...
... conservatives renewed their call for a ' Government of all the talents ' . Australia should dissipate the odour of Mungana , and all the wild talk about ' funny money ' , if they did not want to become ' rickshaw - men ' . Leagues and ...
Page 399
... conservatives did not think they needed him : they wanted men with cool heads , not men of passion . The communists talked of a revolutionary situation but , again to their dismay , the workers showed no signs of developing the ...
... conservatives did not think they needed him : they wanted men with cool heads , not men of passion . The communists talked of a revolutionary situation but , again to their dismay , the workers showed no signs of developing the ...
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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