A History of Australia: The people make laws, 1888-1915Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 283
... leadership of the Labor Party . Ever since the Federal Conference of the party in 1905 Watson had not felt happy about ... leader . 15 Hughes and Fisher felt ill at ease in each other's company . Hughes was brilliant , Fisher was dull ...
... leadership of the Labor Party . Ever since the Federal Conference of the party in 1905 Watson had not felt happy about ... leader . 15 Hughes and Fisher felt ill at ease in each other's company . Hughes was brilliant , Fisher was dull ...
Page 366
... leaders were tearing at each other . In May the Cook Government reintroduced the Bill to abolish preference for ... leader must not put on social airs : in private the conservatives imitated the conventions of English aristocratic ...
... leaders were tearing at each other . In May the Cook Government reintroduced the Bill to abolish preference for ... leader must not put on social airs : in private the conservatives imitated the conventions of English aristocratic ...
Page 407
... leaders and revealing the bourgeois values underneath . Joseph Cook , the one - time Labor leader , put it all in homely language : Australians had proved themselves to be ' boys of the bull - dog breed ' . Australian blood was spilled ...
... leaders and revealing the bourgeois values underneath . Joseph Cook , the one - time Labor leader , put it all in homely language : Australians had proved themselves to be ' boys of the bull - dog breed ' . Australian blood was spilled ...
Contents
A COAT OF CONSERVATIVE VARNISH | 29 |
MORAL IMPROVERS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPERS | 53 |
A TIME OF TUMULT | 90 |
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