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Page 108
Hughes pressed for more ships to be allocated to the Australian run, but the
Committee, and the British Government, were adamant. The same ship could
bring more than four times the quantity of cargo from North America, in four return
...
Hughes pressed for more ships to be allocated to the Australian run, but the
Committee, and the British Government, were adamant. The same ship could
bring more than four times the quantity of cargo from North America, in four return
...
Page 117
Backroom discussions led to the Liberal Party being renamed, or re-formed, as
the National or Nationalist Party (at first the terms were used interchangeably),
which embraced Hughes and his ex-Labor followers in its membership.
Backroom discussions led to the Liberal Party being renamed, or re-formed, as
the National or Nationalist Party (at first the terms were used interchangeably),
which embraced Hughes and his ex-Labor followers in its membership.
Page 153
Neither major party could hope to govern without its support and, since Page and
most of his comrades stood to the right of the Nationalists on most issues, and far
to the right of Hughes, there was never any real possibility of a Labor- Country ...
Neither major party could hope to govern without its support and, since Page and
most of his comrades stood to the right of the Nationalists on most issues, and far
to the right of Hughes, there was never any real possibility of a Labor- Country ...
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ANATIONFOR A CONTINENT c 19001903 | 12 |
Arrival of the New Baby | 19 |
Legislation and White Australia | 29 |
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