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Page 113
... referendum campaign divided the nation into rancorously hostile groups . Generally speaking the rich and respectable supported conscription while the poor opposed it . All the daily newspapers and the still influential weekly Bulletin ...
... referendum campaign divided the nation into rancorously hostile groups . Generally speaking the rich and respectable supported conscription while the poor opposed it . All the daily newspapers and the still influential weekly Bulletin ...
Page 116
... Referendum Act voting was made compulsory for the first time in any Australian poll except for that conducted in Queensland the previous year . There was an overall ' No ' majority of 72 476 in a total poll of 2 247 590 votes . New ...
... Referendum Act voting was made compulsory for the first time in any Australian poll except for that conducted in Queensland the previous year . There was an overall ' No ' majority of 72 476 in a total poll of 2 247 590 votes . New ...
Page 117
... referendum result seemed to augur badly for the Nationalists and both leaders cast about for some means of prolonging the life of their parliaments . Public opinion was hostile to any such manoeuvre , however , and Holman , after some ...
... referendum result seemed to augur badly for the Nationalists and both leaders cast about for some means of prolonging the life of their parliaments . Public opinion was hostile to any such manoeuvre , however , and Holman , after some ...
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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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