EDMUND BARTON Sir Edmund Barton was born in Sydney on 18 January 1849. He is known for being the first Prime Minister of Australia and later becoming a judge of high court. He was the ninth child in a very large family. He was educated at Fort Street High School and later at Sydney Grammar School where he was dux and school captain. Barton first stepped into politics when he was attending university and he stood for the legislative assembly but he was defeated by 6 votes. He tried for the
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Australian Prime ministers after WW2. Sir Robert Hawke Born on the 9th of December 1929 Robert James Lee Hawke was born in Bordertown in South Australia. Known today as Bob Hawke he was educated at Perth Modern School and attended the University of Western Australia‚ where he completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Arts Majoring in Economics. Upon graduating he took up a research scholarship at the Australian National University. Becoming a Rhodes Scholar with his academic achievements aside
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for being the controversial figure at the centre of the dismissal of the Labor government of Gough Whitlam on 11 November 1975‚ an event which sparked the most significant constitutional crisis in Australian history. On that day Kerr dismissed Prime Minister Whitlam and appointed Malcolm Fraser to form a caretaker government‚ pending elections. The dismissal was the most dramatic event in the history of Australian federal politics. For the first time since Federation‚ the unelected representative
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double Australian aid and recently the Australian Labor Party promised to further lift it to 0.5% of our gross national income by 2015. Our foreign aid is still sitting on 0.34%. There are millions of people depending on developed countries like Australia to help them out. It is easy to ask why it has to be us‚ but why should it not be us? We have the ability to make a change‚ so why shouldn’t we? There is nothing wrong with making our beautiful country even better‚ but as we enjoy our amazing surroundings
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On the 6th of November 1999 Australia was very close to becoming a republic. There was a 4% difference in the vote for the referendum with 46% of voters in favour for Australia to become a republic and 54% of voters against becoming a republic winning by the smallest margin. But why become a republic? First of all a republic is a state in which the supreme power resides in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly but them (Macquarie
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Gough Whitlam‚ Australian politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. He was Australia ’s Prime Minister elected in 1972‚ Whitlam ’s term as prime minister ended in 1975 when he was dismissed by the Governor-General. It ended three years of extensive social and cultural reform. Anti- discrimination Racial Discrimination Act 1975 Was introduced to eliminate racism and promote the understand of other races. It applies everyone throughout Australia to all people regardless of their age or where
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• After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1916 with First Class Honours in Law‚ Menzies was admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in 1918. In 1920 Menzies served as an advocate for the Amalgamated Society of Engineers which eventually took its appeal to the High Court of Australia. The case became a landmark authority for the positive reinterpretation of Commonwealth powers over those of the States. The High Court’s verdict raised Menzies’s profile as a skilled
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The primary internal reason how Australia responded to the threat of communism was by Menzies and the Liberal Party attempting to ban the CPA. Menzies tried to ban the CPA two times. The first time was in 1950‚ when the Liberal Party introduced the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (CPDB). Menzies tried to make it a law so that the CPA would become illegal. However‚ this was unsuccessful as the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and many other unions opposed it as this would lead to the Liberal Party to
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topic of the Prime Minister and whether or not they hold too much power within their role. With past allegations of corruption‚ many are blinded by the true powers and limitations of what properly defines the role of our Prime Minister. Thesis: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the roles and responsibilities of the Prime Minister of Canada and evaluate his or her powers to identify whether or not these powers are limited in any way to fulfill the proper role of Prime Minister. The paper will
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Does the Canadian Prime Minister have too much power and what can be done about it? For: Dr. D. Brown Political Science 221 11/18/2013 By: Luke Baxter | ID: 201005340 Second to the Governor General of Canada‚ the position of the Canadian Prime Minister is the single highest power a public servant can obtain. The residual power that the Governor General holds under the monarchy of Britain gives the Governor General the ultimate and final say
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