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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 because they cared greatly about which form the Bill was to take , but because they hoped to ...
... amendment almost identical with Watson's . At this stage the amendment was defeated by a clever manoeuvre of some Opposition Freetrade senators because they cared greatly about which form the Bill was to take , but because they hoped to ...
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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 |
THREE ELEVENS IN THE FIELD c 19041908 | 55 |
LABOR IN POWER c 19091913 | 68 |
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