Autore	Lee David <1965->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Continuum, , 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	994.042092
Soggetto topico	Prime ministers - Australia
ISBN	1-282-77093-4 9786612770937 1-4411-5288-1
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; 1 Commerce and Conflict, 1883-1917; 2 The Accidental Prime Minister, 1918-1923; 3 Men, Money and Markets, 1923-1924; 4 The Prime Minister Triumphant, 1924-1925; 5 Nation and Empire, 1926-1927; 6 'Over the Top', 1928-1929; 7 Bruce Redux, 1930-1934; 8 'Ambassador-at-Large Par Excellence', 1932-1936; 9 Appeasement and the Bruce Report, 1937-1939; 10 The High Commissioner at War, 1939-1941; 11 The World at War, 1941-1943; 12 Apostle of International Cooperation, 1943-1967; The Bruce Legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Credits for Illustrations; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910791582403321

Autore	Errington Wayne
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Carlton, Vic. : , : Melbourne University Press Digital, , 2016
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource
Soggetto topico	Prime ministers - Australia Political leadership - Australia
ISBN	0-522-87074-0
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Transaction costs: past and present -- The bower bird -- An agile start -- The Delcons -- Doubling down -- Eight weeks is a long time in politics -- Mediscare -- You had one job.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910793476803321

Autore	Carroll Brian <1930->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Dural Delivery Centre, NSW, : Rosenberg Pub., 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (256 p.)
Disciplina	320
Soggetto topico	Prime ministers - Australia Social change - Political aspects - Australia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-921719-46-X
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Contents; Introduction; PART I: FROM CANBERRA SCHOOLBOY TO SYDNEY BARRISTER; Growing up in Canberra; Three times a leaver; Across a crowded room; Whitlam at war; A start to political activism; Quiz kid, family man, Sydney barrister; PART II: FROM 'YOUNG BROLGA' TO OPPOSITION LEADER; The 'young brolga' goes to Canberra; 'You ought to stand for deputy'; Battling Labor's 'faceless' and 'witless' men; 'I was provoked': The glass of water incident; Pushing to be leader; Towards the ultimate goal; Whitlam spits the dummy; A step towards The Lodge: the 1969 election; Now to 'reconstruct' Victoria Whitlam just beats Nixon to China'Tiberius with a telephone'; No pillow talk, please; A long run-up to 'It's Time'; PART III: FROM TRIUMPH TO FRUSTRATION, 1972-74; The Duumvirate: Whitlam and Barnard's two-man government; An Opposition in disarray; Whitlam's hundred-day honeymoon; 'A political bungler of considerable eminence': Murphy 'raids' ASIO; Updating the British connection; 'Forthright and courageous': Tariffs cut by 25 per cent; Trouble in the economy. Blame Treasury! (and the Treasurer); 'Continental' replaces 'forward' defence Parramatta by-election: 'Political imbecility and political insanity'Artists for Whitlam: Whitlam for the Arts; Blue Poles: 1.3 million for the work of 'barefoot drunks'; Australia takes France to the International Court of Justice; A go-stop-go start for a new national anthem; Falling out with the rural vote; Struggling towards health reform; The voters say 'no' to prices and incomes powers; In pursuit of 'one vote one value'; Good works and bad vibes at Aboriginal Affairs; Independence for Papua New Guinea; The Gair Affair: Whitlam's cunning scheme backfires Everybody out: 1974 double dissolution election'No! No! No! No!' Voters in 'No' mood to change the Constitution; PART IV: SECOND COMING; All in together: 1974 joint sitting; 1974 Budget: Treasury versus cabinet and Caucus; Murphy coaxes the Trade Practices Act into law; 'A kind of love': Jim Cairns and Junie Morosi; A party of junketeers'; A battle with a Tassie teacher over Baltic states; 'An act of political lunacy'. By-election in Bass; More dignity in divorce: the Family Court of Australia; The Loans Affair: Rex Connor's US4,000,000,000 shopping list 'We did not get out of ...Vietnam to get into a civil war in Timor'Dismissal day: 'Nothing will save the Governor-General'; Would the Senate have folded?; Was the Governor-General right?; 'Shame, Fraser, Shame' and' Turn on the Lights'; PART V: ENCORE IN OPPOSITION AND LIFE AFTER POLITICS; Encore in Opposition; Electors opt for a fistful of dollars; Life after politics; Suggested Reading (and Viewing); Acknowledgments; Illustration Sources; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462020203321

Autore	MacCallum Mungo (Mungo Wentworth), <1941->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Collingwood, Victoria : , : Black, Incorporated, , 2014
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina	994.060924
Soggetto topico	Prime ministers - Australia
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-922231-75-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Front cover; Copyright; THE WHITLAM MOB; Contents; Prologue; THE WHITLAM MOB; Gough Whitlam; Lance Barnard; Lionel Murphy; Jim Cairns; Clyde Cameron; Bill Hayden; Rex Connor; Tom Uren; Fred Daly; Frank Crean; Kim Beazley; Al Grassby; Jim McClelland; Don Willesee; Moss Cass; Jim Cope; The Rest; Don Dunstan; Graham Freudenberg; Margaret Whitlam; THE OTHER MOB; Robert Menzies; Harold Holt; John Gorton; Billy McMahon; Billy Snedden; Malcolm Fraser; Doug Anthony; Andrew Peacock; James Killen; Bill Wentworth; David Fairbairn; Phillip Lynch; Magnus Cormack; Reg Withers; Don Chipp; Peter Howson Edward St JohnMichael Hodgman; Vince Gair; Joh Bjelke-Petersen; John Kerr; Epilogue
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459848103321

Autore	Bridge Carl
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London, : Haus Publishers, 2011
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (214 p.)
Disciplina	994.041092
Collana	Haus histories Makers of the modern world : the peace conferences of 1919-23 and their aftermath
Soggetto topico	Prime ministers - Australia World War, 1914-1918 - Peace
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-26449-8 9786613264497 1-907822-20-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1; New South Welshman, 1862-1901; Nation-building and Troubleshooting,1901-14; War, 1914-16; The Battle for Conscription, 1916-18; Man of Empire, 1918; Part 2; Peacemaking, 1919; Dividing the Spoils, 1919; Part 3; On Top of the British World? 1919-23; Elder Statesman, 1923-52; Conclusion; Notes; Chronology; Further Reading; Select Bibliography; Picture Sources; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910460961703321