A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 98
... Representatives an Electoral Bill which provided , amongst other things , for preferential voting for the House of Representatives . It was designed , he said , ' to secure majority representation in a division under the single seat ...
... Representatives an Electoral Bill which provided , amongst other things , for preferential voting for the House of Representatives . It was designed , he said , ' to secure majority representation in a division under the single seat ...
Page 126
... Representatives . Australia , he said , had now ' entered into a family of nations on a footing of equality ... representatives , and a Council composed of representatives of the five great Powers , and four others elected by the ...
... Representatives . Australia , he said , had now ' entered into a family of nations on a footing of equality ... representatives , and a Council composed of representatives of the five great Powers , and four others elected by the ...
Page 134
... Representatives . To govern he must come to some agreement with the representatives of the farmers ' organizations in the new Parliament . He must go cap in hand to the men at whose expense he had indulged in the sport which gave him so ...
... Representatives . To govern he must come to some agreement with the representatives of the farmers ' organizations in the new Parliament . He must go cap in hand to the men at whose expense he had indulged in the sport which gave him so ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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