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Page 172
... issue . Bruce was provoked into replying that he would have nothing to do with a plebiscite and would treat Hughes's motion as one of confidence . He cut short the debate after only eight speeches , but two Nationalists crossed the ...
... issue . Bruce was provoked into replying that he would have nothing to do with a plebiscite and would treat Hughes's motion as one of confidence . He cut short the debate after only eight speeches , but two Nationalists crossed the ...
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... issue , indeed the major issue , on the hustings ; and the voters were far too conservative and far too devoted to the traditional conservative policy of unquestioning dependence on Britain , to set much store by Curtin's warnings ...
... issue , indeed the major issue , on the hustings ; and the voters were far too conservative and far too devoted to the traditional conservative policy of unquestioning dependence on Britain , to set much store by Curtin's warnings ...
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... issue in the United States . Hasluck , the Minister for External Affairs , returned from a visit to Saigon to assure his countrymen , like all Government visitors before him , that the diggers and the Americans were steadily winning the ...
... issue in the United States . Hasluck , the Minister for External Affairs , returned from a visit to Saigon to assure his countrymen , like all Government visitors before him , that the diggers and the Americans were steadily winning the ...
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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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