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... amendment to Clause 14. When this clause was recommitted to the House in September , Hughes withdrew his amendment because Barton had rewritten Clause 15 to include provision for ' white mails ' . Thus amended under Labor pressure , the ...
... amendment to Clause 14. When this clause was recommitted to the House in September , Hughes withdrew his amendment because Barton had rewritten Clause 15 to include provision for ' white mails ' . Thus amended under Labor pressure , the ...
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... amendment almost identical with Watson's . At this stage the amendment was defeated by a clever manoeuvre of some Opposition Freetrade senators - not because they cared greatly about which form the Bill was to take , but because they ...
... amendment almost identical with Watson's . At this stage the amendment was defeated by a clever manoeuvre of some Opposition Freetrade senators - not because they cared greatly about which form the Bill was to take , but because they ...
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... amendments similar to those moved by Edwards in the House . One , known popularly as the ' colour - line amendment ' , sought to confine the operation of the Bill to that part of Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn . Like other ...
... amendments similar to those moved by Edwards in the House . One , known popularly as the ' colour - line amendment ' , sought to confine the operation of the Bill to that part of Australia south of the Tropic of Capricorn . Like other ...
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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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