On the evening of 29 April 1977, Don Chipp addressed an overflowing Perth Town Hall meeting which unanimously passed a resolution to form a Centre-Line Party, which Chipp was invited to lead:p185—but ...
By the end of the nineteenth century, the principles of classical liberalism were challenged by downturns in economic growth, a growing perception of the evils of poverty, unemployment and relative de ...
The Tasmanian Hydro Electric Commission actually planned to build more than one dam to flood the Franklin:Gordon below Franklin Dam - 105m high, at 42°35′2″S 145°43′55″E - accessed via the Gordo ...
Rhodesian Security Forces consisted of the Rhodesian Army, Royal Rhodesian Air Force, British South Africa Police, Rhodesian Ministry of Internal Affairs (INTAF) and the Guard Force. Despite the impac ...
The official name of the country, according to the constitution adopted concurrently with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, was Rhodesia. This was not the case under British la ...
The election was held on 27 April 1994 and went off peacefully throughout the country as 20 million South Africans cast their votes. There was some difficulty in organising the voting in rural areas, ...
In 1966 B. J. Vorster became Prime Minister. He was not prepared to dismantle apartheid, but he did try to redress South Africa's isolation and to revitalise the country's global reputation, even thos ...
Main articles: History of South Africa (1815–1910) and History of South Africa (1910–1948)Under the 1806 Cape Articles of Capitulation the new British colonial rulers were required to respect previo ...
Written history knows the ancient Vietnamese people first simply as the L?c or L?c Vi?t, and the country of Vietnam as V?n Lang. Archaeological evidence of the bronze age Dong Son Culture (also kn ...
In 1975, concerns that minority communities might require details in their own languages of the new Medibank health care scheme (renamed Medicare in 1984) led to the establishment of two ethnic radio ...
Kerr was born in Balmain, a working-class suburb of Sydney, where his father was a boilermaker. He entered the Fort Street Boys' High School, and later won scholarships to the University of Sydney, wh ...
As established by the Constitution, the Parliament of Australia is composed of two houses, the House of Representatives and the Senate, together with Australia's Queen. The monarch is represented thro ...
John Malcolm Fraser was born on 21 May 1930 in Toorak, Victoria to a family with a history of involvement in politics and the pastoral/grazing industry. His grandfather, Simon Fraser, Sr., emigrated f ...
During 1975, the Whitlam Government attempted to raise a loan of approximately US$4 billion. The money was intended to be used to fund a number of natural resource and energy projects, including const ...
Connor was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, where he lived all his life and which he represented in the New South Wales and Australian Parliaments. Descended from Irish Catholics (though not himse ...
