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The light on the hill: the Australian Labor Party, 1891-1991

McMullin, Ross, 1952-

Year: 1991.

Publisher: Oxford University Press Australia.

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Frontmatter

List of Illustrations

Preface

1 'The Ballot is the Thing', 1891

2 Support in Return for Concessions, 1891-1904

3 'To Lose Our Distinctness Would Mean Failure': Flirting with Alliances, 1904-1910

4 'Our Unequalled Progess': Planks Made Law, 1910-1914

5 'Blowing the Labor Party to Shreds': The Great War and the Great Split, 1914-1919

6 'There was Crookedness in New South Wales', 1920-1928

7 'Spitting upon the Altar of Labour'? Floundering in the Great Depression, 1929-1932

8 'There is a Huge Job to Do': Gradual Recovery, 1932-1941

9 'Dangers and Problems Unprecedented and Unpredictable': The Curtin Government, 1941-1945

10 'The Hope, the Inspiration and the Saviour of the Australian People': The Chifley Government, 1945-1949

11 'Sad Days for the Party': Another Big Split, 1950-1960

12 'Doomed to Indefinite Opposition'? 1960-1966

13 'Whose Party is This — Ours or His?': Resurgence under Whitlam, 1967-1972

14 'There won't Ever be Another One Like It': The Whitlam Government, 1972-1975

15 Life wasn't Meant to be Easy for the ALP, 1976-1983

16 'Some New and Alien Philosophy'? The Hawke-Keating Regime, 1983-1991

Endnotes

Index

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Title:

The light on the hill : the Australian Labor Party, 1891-1991 Ross McMullin.

Author:

McMullin, Ross, 1952-

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The light on the hill : the Australian Labor Party, 1891-1991 Ross McMullin.
McMullin, Ross, 1952-
Oxford: Oxford University Press Australia, 1991.

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