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4 days ago · In 1949 it was a Labor Government – of Labor hero Ben Chifley – that sent in the army to break up massive strikes by coal mining unions. In 1989, it was Bob Hawke’s Labor government that despatched the RAAF to break a Qantas pilots’ strike.
2 days ago · Curtin died in office in 1945 and was succeeded by Ben Chifley. The reconfigured Coalition faced its first national test in the 1946 election . It won 26 of 74 seats on 45.9 percent of the two-party vote and remained in minority in the Senate.
3 days ago · From the left, Prime Minister, Ben Chifley; Governor-General, William McKell and Minister for Works and Housing, Nelson Lemmon, 1949. William Hudson KBE FRS Commissioner Snowy Mountains Hydro Electric Authority 1949-1967.
Jun 30, 2024 · Back in 1945, when the Chifley Labor government negotiated the first Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement (CSHA) to address the housing crisis of the 1940s, it sparked a nasty debate about "little ...
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Jul 16, 2024 · Ben Chifley, Curtin’s collaborator in the design of the post-war reconstruction Keynesian welfare state, is also in the top echelon. He is followed by Robert Menzies, the father of the modern Liberal Party and Australia’s longest-serving prime minister.
Jul 17, 2024 · Under Ben Chifley’s Labor government, Australia was among the first countries to recognise Israel. Since 1917, and British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour’s declaration of support for a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, Australia had followed the waxing and waning of Britain’s policy towards Jewish aspirations in Palestine.
4 days ago · Planning for the university was disrupted by World War II but resumed with the creation of the Department of Post-War Reconstruction in 1942, ultimately leading to the passage of the Australian National University Act 1946 by the Chifley government on 1 August 1946.
