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A banner proclaiming ‘Honneur et Patrie’ (Honour and Fatherland) appears at the start of this newsreel footage. We then see the Treaty of Versailles, signed by the Allied powers.
The footage shows...
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The official opening of the Heidelberg Golf Club was declared by the then Prime Minister, the Right Honourable Mr Stanley Bruce on Saturday the 23rd of June 1928. This was an important event for the...
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The disappearance of our seventeenth Prime Minister at Cheviot Beach sparked countless conspiracy theories and ultimately overshadowed his political accomplishments.
At the height of the Cold War,...
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Joseph Cook became Australia's sixth Prime Minister in 1913. Before that, he established the Royal Australian Navy when he was Defence Minister.
The HMAS Yarra was a torpedo boat destroyer and one of...
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Alfred Deakin was Australia's second prime minister and held the position three times.
Deakin was also a journalist and wrote anonymous newspaper articles, even while he was Prime Minister, calling...
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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...