Hugh Victor McKay, one of Australia's largest employers, owned the Sunshine Harvester Works where agricultural machinery was built. Under the Excise Tariff Act 1906, the Federal Australian government ...
An award is a ruling handed down by either Fair Work Australia or by a state industrial relations commission which grants all wage earners in one industry or occupation the same minimum conditions of ...
The chief objects of this Act were:To prevent lock-outs and strikes in relation to industrial disputes;To constitute a Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration having jurisdiction for the pr ...
Humphrey McQueen (born 26 June 1942) is an Australian author, historian, and cultural commentator. He has written many books on a wide range of subjects covering history, the media, politics and the v ...
Gammage is best known for his book The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War, which is based on his PhD thesis written while at the Australian National University. It was first published ...
Main article: History of the Royal Australian NavyThe Commonwealth Naval Forces were established on 1 March 1901, two months after the federation of Australia, when the naval forces of the separate Au ...
The government of prime minister Alfred Deakin and other non-Labor governments had introduced a form of conscription for boys from 12 to 14 years of age and for youths from 18 to 20 years of age betwe ...
Lord Kitchener sailed from Scrabster to Scapa Flow on 5 June 1916 aboard HMS Oak before transferring to the armoured cruiser HMS Hampshire for his diplomatic mission to Russia. Shortly before 1930 hrs ...
Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC (/?k?t??n?r/; 24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a senior British Army officer and colonial a ...
Australia's contribution to the 1991 Gulf War centered on a Naval Task Group, initially Task Group 627.4, which formed part of the multi-national fleet in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman. In additio ...
The loss of HMAS Canberra at the Battle of Savo Island in August 1942 was the largest single ship loss the RAN experienced during World War II. In the early hours of the morning of 9 August 1942, Canb ...
Main article: Australia StationIn the years following the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales in 1788, Royal Navy ships of the East Indies Squadron under the command of the East Ind ...
While the capital ships of the Great White Fleet were already obsolescent in light of the "big gun" revolution ushered in by the construction of HMS Dreadnought, their behavior at sea furnished valuab ...
With the Connecticut as flagship under the command of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, the fleet sailed from Hampton Roads on 16 December 1907 for Trinidad, British West Indies, thence to Rio de Janeiro, ...
In the twilight of United States President Theodore Roosevelt's administration, Roosevelt dispatched sixteen U.S. Navy battleships of the Atlantic Fleet on a worldwide voyage of circumnavigation from ...
