The History of Australia: The Twentieth CenturyHow governments and social policy from 1900 to 1975 led to the development of a national Australian consciousness. |
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... Curtin , prophetically , urged the development of a defensive air arm , underlining one of the points in Hughes's book , that the Royal Australian Air Force should be built up to at least parity with the total Japanese carrier - borne ...
... Curtin , prophetically , urged the development of a defensive air arm , underlining one of the points in Hughes's book , that the Royal Australian Air Force should be built up to at least parity with the total Japanese carrier - borne ...
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... Curtin Government was sworn in on 7 October . John Curtin was born in 1885 at Creswick near Ballarat , the son of a police sergeant , and left school at the age of only 13 to obtain clerical work in Melbourne . He read widely , played ...
... Curtin Government was sworn in on 7 October . John Curtin was born in 1885 at Creswick near Ballarat , the son of a police sergeant , and left school at the age of only 13 to obtain clerical work in Melbourne . He read widely , played ...
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... Curtin , Governments legislated for taxation of wartime company profits , of gifts made by companies or individuals , and in 1942 the Curtin Government re - introduced Hughes's emergency measure of World War I a Commonwealth ...
... Curtin , Governments legislated for taxation of wartime company profits , of gifts made by companies or individuals , and in 1942 the Curtin Government re - introduced Hughes's emergency measure of World War I a Commonwealth ...
Contents
A NATION FOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
Legislation and White Australia | 29 |
New Protection and the Basic Wage | 46 |
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