perial Preference was a proposed system of reciprocally-enacted tariffs or free trade agreements between the dominions and colonies of the British Empire. As Commonwealth Preference, the proposal was ...
The Loan Council is an Australian federal-state body which co-ordinates the financial borrowing arrangements of the Commonwealth of Australia and the States and mainland territories, New South Wales, ...
Strikes and industrial unrest were frequent in the aftermath of World War I, arising from discontent over poor conditions and the rise of militant labour organizations like the Communist Party of Aust ...
Stanley Melbourne Bruce was born on 15 April 1883 in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne, and was the youngest of five children. His father, John Munro Bruce, was of Ulster Scottish descent and ...
The Australian film industry declined after World War II, coming to a virtual stop by the early 1960s. The Gorton and Whitlam governments intervened in the early 1970s and rescued the industry from it ...
Such settlement plans initially began during World War I, with South Australia first enacting legislation in 1915 but the whole of Australia gaining significant impetus to also move in that direction ...
Film historian Ina Bertrand suggests that the tone of The Story of the Kelly Gang' is "one of sorrow, depicting Ned Kelly and his gang as the Last of the Bushrangers." Bertrand identifies several scen ...
Commonwealth of Australia Main article: List of Australian Royal CommissionsRoyal Commission in the matter of an inquiry into a statement that there was a document missing from the official files in r ...
The Australian film history has been characterized as one of 'boom and bust' due to the unstable and cyclical nature of its industry; there have been deep troughs when few films were made for decades ...
The earliest records of prohibition of alcohol date back to the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2070 BC–ca. 1600 BC) in China. Yu the Great, the first ruler of the Xia Dynasty, prohibited alcohol throughout the kin ...
The ACTU was formed in 1927 as the "Australian Council of Trade Unions". It was one of the earliest attempts by trade unions to apply the principles of One Big Union earlier explored by more radical s ...
The strike started late on Wednesday night 31 October 1923 - the eve of Melbourne's Spring Racing Carnival - when a squad of 24 constables at Russell Street Police Headquarters refused duty, citing th ...
Coalition Member Parties Liberal Party of Australia Liberal National Party of Queensland National Party of Australia Country Liberal Party (NT)At the federal level, there is a Coalition between the Li ...
"Countrymindedness" was a slogan that summed up the ideology of the Country Party from 1920 through the early 1970s. It was an ideology that was physiocratic, populist, and decentralist; it fostered r ...
M. Thomas Inge defines agrarianism by the following basic tenets:Farming is the sole occupation which offers total independence and self-sufficiency.Urban life, capitalism, and technology destroy inde ...
