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The Biographical With
an Introduction by Edited by Ann Millar |
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 of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them. This book reveals a very different Australia from that presented in the first volume. 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 Depression and a second world war. We see senators grappling with an increasingly mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems and the growing complexities of public policy. Political parties, strongly influenced by economic conditions and rural politics, divide and regroup, and as the states recognise more and more the extent of Commonwealth power, the Senate asserts its constitutional equality with the House of Representatives. |
Senator Walter Kingsmill |
• readable and authoritative work of reference which provides readers
with a biographical account of Australian senators and a history of the
Senate since 1901
• provides a window on the societies in which these senators and
their clerks lived and worked
• a valuable addition to Australian history.
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volumes 1 and 2, are published by Melbourne University Publishing in association with the Department of the Senate.
Available throughout Australia, both volumes can be ordered by completing the order form below.
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