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The first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, was born in Sydney on 18 January 1849 and qualified as a lawyer from the University of Sydney after lecturing in Classics. A passionate...
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Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula has become a place of pilgrimage for many Australians.
For the centenary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops in 2015, over 10,000 people made the...
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Prime Minister Bob Hawke presents Simon Townsend with an award for the 1000th episode of Simon Townsend's Wonder World!.
With the Australian national anthem playing in the background, the prime...
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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...