Author: John CainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign speeches, 1950
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Policy Speech of John Cain, State Labor Leader
Author: John CainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign speeches, 1950
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Policy Speech by Mr. John Cain, M.L.A., Leader of the State Opposition, on Wednesday, March 17, 1982
Author: John CainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Campaign speeches, 1982
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Neither Power Nor Glory
Author: Paul StrangioPublisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN: 0522862128
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
When Frank Hardy published Power Without Glory, his notorious novel about corruption and venality in the Victorian Labor Party, it quickly came to be seen as a true account of the party. Until now, there has been no authoritative chronicle of the struggles of political Labor in Victoria, from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century through to the calamitous split of the 1950s. By conventional measures these were fallow years. Ensnared by the colony's powerful liberal protectionist tradition in the late nineteenth century, Victorian Labor then found itself hindered by a grossly unfair electoral system and the lack of a constituency outside Melbourne's industrial suburbs. But exile from government also meant that the party developed its own distinctive traditions and culture. It was a unique and intriguing species among the state Labor parties. Meticulously researched and elegantly written, Neither Power Nor Glory fills an important gap in Australian political history and our understanding of the Labor Party. It is also a timely antidote to nostalgia about Labor’s past. In Victoria at least, that past was anything but golden. WINNER OF THE 2013 HENRY MAYER PRIZE
John Cain & Victorian Labor, 1917-1957
Author: Kate WhitePublisher: Sydney, NSW : Hale & Iremonger
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Australian national bibliography
Author: Australian National Bibliography, 1901-1950: Main sequence, 23,666-49,436
Author: The Victorian Premiers, 1856-2006
Author: Paul StrangioPublisher: Federation Press
ISBN: 9781862876019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
In the century and a half since Victoria was granted responsible government in 1856, 44 premiers have presided over the state and colony, from 'Honest' William Haines to Steve Bracks. Here is their story. For the first time this book brings together a comprehensive collection of biographical and political portraits of the Victorian premiers written by leading Australian historians and political scientists. The result is a compelling journey through a turbulent, occasionally anarchic, political landscape. A cast of fascinating characters is brought to life--the mercurial Graham Berry, who in the 1870s threatened broken heads and flaming houses in his heroic struggle to tame the colony's intractably conservative upper house; the roguish Tommy Bent, the turn of the century 'can do' premier whose development enthusiasms were unhindered by probities of office; the bohemian Tom Hollway, who conducted Victoria's affairs from his suite in the Windsor Hotel; the 'accidental' leader Henry Bolte, who became Victoria's longest serving premier; and the larrikin metropolitan, Jeff Kennett, who turned the state into a neo-liberal laboratory in the 1990s. A tale of premiers, the book is also a narrative of politics in a state that has vied with New South Wales as Australia's most prosperous and powerful. It recounts many extraordinary episodes: the precocious development of democracy in a fledgling colony turned upside down by gold immigrants; the titanic bicameral struggles of the 1860s and 1870s that brought Victoria to the brink of insurrection; the bank crashes of the 1890s; the police strike of 1923; the great Labor split of the 1950s; the hanging of Ronald Ryan in 1967; the social democratic adventurism of the Labor decade of the 1980s brought to a shuddering halt by another era of financial collapses; and the neo-liberal experimentalism of the Kennett government. This carefully researched and engagingly written book will leave the reader in no doubt that politics in the 'Garden State' has seldom been sedate and its premiers rarely predictable.
Australian News Summary
Author: Labor to Office
Author: Brian J. CostarPublisher: Blackburn, Vic., Australia : Dove Communications
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Pope's Battalions
Author: Ross FitzgeraldPublisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702233890
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
A prophet whose confident prophecies were frequently proved wrong, B.A. Santamaria profoundly affected 20th century Australian political life. Although he rarely gave interviews and never held elected office, Santamaria became widely known through his regular commentaries in the "Australian" and in his magazine "News Weekly".Building on his battle against Communist influence in the trade unions, Santamaria boldly attempted to capture the ALP and transform it into a European-style Christian Democrat party. The ensuing split was disastrous, demoralising the ALP, and casting Santamaria out of the Labor fold for all time.