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Page 43
... Labor members : in the Senate the figures were 9 , 13 and 14 respectively . The Protectionist Government was sure enough of Labor support to continue in office , but it was at this time that Deakin made his famous speech ruefully ...
... Labor members : in the Senate the figures were 9 , 13 and 14 respectively . The Protectionist Government was sure enough of Labor support to continue in office , but it was at this time that Deakin made his famous speech ruefully ...
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... Labor Government , found that ten of them had been ' framed ' and they were released from gaol . Under Hughes's Military Conscription Referendum Act voting was made compulsory for the first time in any Australian poll except for that ...
... Labor Government , found that ten of them had been ' framed ' and they were released from gaol . Under Hughes's Military Conscription Referendum Act voting was made compulsory for the first time in any Australian poll except for that ...
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... Labor Government . Born in Sydney in 1876 , the son of a jeweller who lost everything in the depression of the 1890s , Lang had grown up in poverty and had committed himself from boyhood onwards to the Labor movement . He gained ...
... Labor Government . Born in Sydney in 1876 , the son of a jeweller who lost everything in the depression of the 1890s , Lang had grown up in poverty and had committed himself from boyhood onwards to the Labor movement . He gained ...
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A NATION FOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
Legislation and White Australia | 29 |
New Protection and the Basic Wage | 46 |
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