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Joseph Lyons was elected to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1929 as the Australian Labor Party member for a seat in Tasmania. Two years later he was Prime Minister, representing the United Australia...
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John Curtin started out as a copy-boy on The Age newspaper, working his way up the ladder via the union movement. He joined the Australian Journalists’ Association (AJA) in 1917 and was elected...
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When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939 Prime Minister Robert Menzies declared Australia was also at war.
In 1941 he flew to Britain (the first Australian Prime Minister to fly overseas rather...
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James Scullin was the manager of a small grocery store who continued to educate himself, and then became a union organiser.
He was elected to Commonwealth Parliament in 1910, lost his seat in 1913,...
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During the First World War Australian soldiers fought on the Western Front. This was Australia’s main war involvement, far bigger than the fighting at Gallipoli in 1915.
Australians fought in the...
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Andrew Fisher’s tin lunch box reminds us that humble beginnings informed his formidable political career.
Leaving school at ten, he was a coal miner throughout his teens, and migrated to Australia...
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One of the most highly regarded of Australia’s Prime Ministers, Ben Chifley was a former train driver with a voice like worn-out boot leather. He was well aware that his image as the typical bloke...
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Stanley Melbourne Bruce was born into a wealthy commercial family. He was an outstanding athlete at school and later Cambridge University, where he qualified as a barrister.
He was in England when...
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Why would a Rolls Royce imported to Australia as an official vehicle for Queen Elizabeth's 1970 visit end up as a rally car?
Warren Brown visits the Fox Classic Car Collection in Melbourne to find...
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Most Australians know that Banjo Paterson wrote the lyrics to 'Waltzing Matilda' but who wrote the music?
And what does it have to do with a rather oddly titled song called 'Go to the Devil and Shake...