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The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: Volume 2, 1929-1962 (Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate series)
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Hardcover. Contains articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them. This book shows senators grappling with a mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems and the complexities of public policy. Editor(s): Millar, Ann. Num Pages: 600 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 1MBF; GBCB; JPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 184 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1645.
The second volume of ""The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate"" contains individual articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them. This book presents a very different Australia from that revealed in Volume 1 of the ""Biographical Dictionary"" (MUP, 2000). The vision of Australia as a fair and equitable society, cherished so confidently at the time of Federation, now has to be put into practice in the face of the Depression and the Second World War. We see senators grappling with an increasingly mechanised ... Read more
The second volume of ""The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate"" contains individual articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them. This book presents a very different Australia from that revealed in Volume 1 of the ""Biographical Dictionary"" (MUP, 2000). The vision of Australia as a fair and equitable society, cherished so confidently at the time of Federation, now has to be put into practice in the face of the Depression and the Second World War. We see senators grappling with an increasingly mechanised ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1
Place of Publication
Carlton, Australia
ISBN
9780522850901
SKU
V9780522850901
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99-3
About
Harry Evans is Clerk of the Senate, editor of the seventh and subsequent editions of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, and author of other works on constitutional and parliamentary matters. As well as writing the introduction to this volume, and to volume one of the series, he has taken a personal interest in the formation and development of the Biographical Dictionary. ... Read more
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