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Joseph Aloysius Lyons
Joseph Aloysius Lyons , 1879-1939, Australian statesman, b. Tasmania. He left schoolteaching in 1909 to enter political life, was a Labour member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly until 1929, and was premier of Tasmania. He became a member of the commonwealth Parliament in 1929 and held cabinet pos... Read more
Port Augusta
Port Augusta city (1991 pop. 14,595), South Australia, S Australia, at the head of Spencer Gulf. It is a railroad center. ... Read more
Australia
Australia , smallest continent, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. With the island state of Tasmania to the south, the continent makes up the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary state (2005 est. pop. 20,090,000), 2,967,877 sq mi (7,686,810 sq km). Australia's capital is Canberr... Read more
Albany
Albany , town (1996 pop. 14,590), Western Australia, SW Australia. It is a port on Princess Royal Harbour of King George Sound. The town has woolen mills and fish canneries. Founded in 1826 as a penal colony, Albany is the oldest settlement in the state of Western Australia. ... Read more
East Coolgardie Goldfield
East Coolgardie Goldfield , Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the richest gold field in Australia. The chief mining center is the town of Kalgoorlie. Coolgardie, of little importance today, was the first gold-rush town in the area. Gold was discovered there in 1892. ... Read more
Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie , town (1991 pop. 25,016), Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the chief mining town of the state and the center of the East Coolgardie Goldfield. Gold was found at nearby Coolgardie in 1892; nickel is also mined. The Western Australia School of Mines (1902) was transferred (1903) from... Read more
Fitzroy
Fitzroy rivers in Australia. 1 River, 174 mi (280 km) long, formed by the junction of the Dawson and the Mackenzie rivers, E Queensland, Australia, and flowing past Rockhampton to Keppel Bay of the Coral Sea. 2 River, c.325 mi (525 km) long, rising in the eastern Kimberley Plateau, N Western Au... Read more
Woomera-Maralinga
Woomera-Maralinga , town (1991 pop. 1,600), in the state of South Australia, S Australia, near Lake Torrens. It is the site of a missile-testing range used by Australia and its allies. Australia's first earth satellite was launched there in 1967. Nearby is a U.S. space tracking station. ... Read more
John Winston Howard
John Winston Howard 1939-, Australian political leader and prime minister (1996-2007), b. Sydney. A graduate of Sydney Univ., a conservative lawyer, and a member of the Liberal party, he was elected to parliament in 1974 and served as minister for business and consumer affairs (1975-77) and treasur... Read more
Paul Keating
Paul Keating 1944-, Australian politician. A trade-union official and member of the Labor party, he was first elected to parliament in 1969. As federal treasurer (treasury minister) from 1983 to 1991 and deputy prime minister under Prime Minister Bob Hawke from 1990 to 1991, he advocated free-mar... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Coalition (Australia)"

Australia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...polls, Keating proposed that Australia should become a republic by...Keating was defeated by a coalition led by John Howard . In 1998...In a referendum (1999) Australia voted against becoming a republic...In January 2002, eastern Australia suffered devastating bush...
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Country party into a coalition but was criticized for slowness in putting Australia on a full war footing...the disintegrating United Australia party turned from him...administration eased Australia away from the United Nations...
John Forrest
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Labour party in 1917 and formed a coalition ministry, Forrest was appointed...Expedition through the Centre of Australia (1875); and Explorations in Australia (1875). Forrest's Notes on Western Australia (1884) provides background...
John Winston Howard
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the prime minister of Australia, has established himself...political party in power. In Australia, as in many nations with...Howard's Liberal Party, in a coalition with another minority faction...awareness of the problems of Australia's blue-collar workers...
1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Europe when asked to represent Australia at the League of Nations Assembly...in 1921. On his return to Australia he became treasurer under...in a Nationalist-Country coalition of generally conservative...immigration from Britain to Australia, with emphasis on rural settlement...
Vanuatu
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...km), South Pacific, E of Australia. Vanuatu is a 450-mi...imported. Thailand, Japan, Australia, and Poland are the main...plantations in Queensland, Australia. British attempts to halt...New Guinea and Britain. A coalition government led by Prime Minister...
Curtin, John
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II ...In October 1941 Fadden's coalition government was defeated and...I make it quite clear that Australia looks to America, free of...is faced; we know too that Australia can go and Britain can still...consternation he also made plain Australia's and his own loyalty to...
Edward Gough Whitlam
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the Liberal-Country party coalition which had ruled since 1949...and British influence in Australia. He ordered Australian troops...attempts to create a "new" Australia, changing the relationships...more independent role for Australia and his criticism of American...
Joseph Aloysius Lyons
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...party — the United Australia party — around him...seats, he had to rely on a coalition with the Country party to...outlined in Douglas Copland, Australia in the World Crisis, 1929...For general background on Australia's international relations...
Paul John Keating
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. The eldest child of Irish...appointed minister for Northern Australia. Keating's achievement...had begun under the Liberal coalition government. By the end of...foreign banks to operate in Australia. The following year the influential...

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Allied Coalition
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Allied Coalition the military coalition of thirty-six countries against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War (1991). It consisted of Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia...
National Party of Australia
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History National Party of Australia An Australian political party...formed the Country Party of Australia in 1916. It has governed federally in coalition with the Nationalist Party...x2013;29), the United Australia Party (1934–...
Liberal Party, Australia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Liberal Party, Australia The first Liberal Party emerged...fusion of most of the United Australia Party ( UAP ) and other groups to form Australia's largest and most successful...Minister until 1966. In coalition with the Country Party...
Nationalist Party, Australia
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Nationalist Party, Australia With the official title of Australian...Subsequently, the Nationalist-Country coalition under Bruce and Page governed until 1929...the party was absorbed into the United Australia Party in 1931.
Bruce, Stanley, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...World War I. He returned to Australia in 1917, and was elected...x2013;29) and the United Australia Party (1931–3...External Affairs, leading a coalition government with Page's Country...Party ). He sought to further Australia's links with Britain, mainly...
New Zealand
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...market has been signed with Australia. History First people by...began from New South Wales in Australia and from the New Zealand Association...strengthened its trading links with Australia and its Pacific neighbours...majority and Bolger formed coalition governments. Maori activists...
Papua New Guinea
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...island of New Guinea north of Australia, together with the Bismarck...territory, now called Papua, to Australia, and at the outbreak of World...Commonwealth. A defence treaty with Australia was negotiated and democratic...became a key issue facing the coalition government of Rabbie Namaliu...
Page, Sir Earle Christmas Grafton
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...Hughes in 1923 and formed a coalition with Bruce , whose Deputy...in 1939, while the United Australia Party chose a successor...Minister, Menzies . He served as Australia's representative on the...x2013;2) and, back in Australia, was member of the Advisory...
Reid, Sir George Houstoun
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1918). Prime Minister of Australia 1904–5 The son...from Scotland, he arrived in Australia in 1852. He became a lawyer...he supported a defensive coalition against the growing Labor...Parliament in 1908, and became Australia's first high commissioner...
Fraser, John Malcolm
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ...1930). Prime Minister of Australia 1975–83 Born and...s government , the time of Australia's controversial involvement...and his Liberal/Country coalition won the December election...promoted the exploitation of Australia's mineral resources, so...

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Fed: Coalition, Australia Institute urge pension increase
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/12/2008; 587 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 10-12-2008 Fed: Coalition, Australia Institute urge pension increase By Max Blenkin CANBERRA...itself in unlikely agreement with the left-leaning Australia Institute in urging the government to lift aged pensions...
Fed:Only the coalition can unite Australia on Aborigines: Howard
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 10/12/2007; 361 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 10-12-2007 Fed:Only the coalition can unite Australia on Aborigines: Howard SYDNEY, Oct 12 AAP...push forward the issue of reconciliation with Australia's indigenous people. Last night Mr Howard...
Israel to join anti-whaling coalition alongside U.S., Australia
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 4/27/2006; ; 644 words ; ...JERUSALEM Israel has decided to join the coalition of anti-whaling nations that oppose...whaling nations, led by the U.S. and Australia. Japanese attempts to reintroduce commercial...St. Kitts and Nevis. The U.S. and Australia have led the opposition and recently...
Coalition will strengthen Australia-US ties, says envoy.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 10/8/2001; 473 words ; ...Australian ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australia-US alliance is strong in testing times...8 October 2001, the US ambassador to Australia, Tom Scheiffer, spoke about the strength...the US. He said that he was proud of Australia's support for the US as it sought to...
Fed: Coalition pledge to expand Australia Post banking services
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 9/30/2004; 352 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 09-30-2004 Fed: Coalition pledge to expand Australia Post banking services CANBERRA, Sept 30 AAP - Australia Post would extend its banking services further into rural and remote areas under a $9.7 million...
Coalition wins over Australia's freight sector.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 11/14/2001; 511 words ; ...industry readers want the Coalition parties to win in 2001. According...record. LIBERAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA: NATIONAL PARTY OF AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY...TRANSPORTATION AND STATE - AUSTRALIA POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS - AUSTRALIA...
Coalition is re-elected in Australia, faces test.
News Wire article from: Australasian Business Intelligence; 11/12/2001; 488 words ; ...ABIX via COMTEX) -- The election in Australia on 10 November 2001 resulted in a return...office. The Australian Government is a coalition of the Liberal Party of Australia and the National Party of Australia. The Australian Labor Party (ALP...
FED: Coalition MPs say regional Australia missed out
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 5/14/2008; 395 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 05-14-2008 FED: Coalition MPs say regional Australia missed out CANBERRA, May 14 AAP - Opposition...Rudd government of short-changing regional Australia with its first budget. The controversial regional...
New government focuses on promoting WA mining. (Coalition Government of Western Australia, Australia) (Industry Views)
Magazine article from: Mining Magazine; 4/1/1993; 700+ words ; ...cabinet on February 16, Western Australia's new Coalition Government is starting to make...the new legislation, Western Australia would have become the only State...creating investment in Western Australia. Instead, we will be creating...
FED: Coalition MPs say regional Australia missed out=4
Newspaper article from: AAP General News (Australia); 5/14/2008; 315 words ; AAP General News (Australia) 05-14-2008 FED: Coalition MPs say regional Australia missed out=4 Liberal MP Dennis Jensen said...Scott said the budget did nothing for rural Australia. "It is a root-and-branch grab for more...