Edited by Brian Costar
Published by Victorian Government - Parliamentary Library (2001)
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From Barton to Bruce : the Melbourne prime ministers 1901-1927 Edited by Brian Costar Published by Victorian Government - Parliamentary Library (2001) |
About the Author
From the opening of the first Commonwealth Parliament in the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, in 1901, to the opening of the 'provisional' Canberra Parliament House on 9 May, 1927, Federal Parliament sat in the chambers of the Victorian Parliament in Spring Street, Melbourne. Eight Prime Ministers; Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, John Watson, George Reid, Andrew Fisher, Joseph Cook, William Morris Hughes, and Stanley Melbourne Bruce variously led the nine and part of the tenth parliaments that sat in Melbourne. This is a concise biography of each of these leader.
About the Author
Dr Brian Costar is Associate Professor of Politics at Monash University. His research interests include Australian political parties, elections, rural and regional politics and constitutionalism. Dr Costar has edited / co-edited many books including The Kennett revolution : Victorian politics in the 1990s (1999).
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