The Biographical Dictionary Of The Australian Senate: Volume 2. 1929-1962

Millar Ann

ISBN 10: 0522850901 / ISBN 13: 9780522850901

Published by MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB, Australia, 2004

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589 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Biographical Dictionary Of The Australian Senate: Volume 2. 1929-1962
• Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB, Australia
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522850901
• ISBN 13: 9780522850901
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Australian Politics

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Synopsis

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 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 re-group, and as the six states recognise more and more the extent of Commonwealth power, the Senate asserts its constitutional equality with the House of Representatives.

About the Author

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. Ann Millar was involved in the infant beginnings of the Biographical Dictionary in the early 1990s, and has been editor and Director of the Biographical Dictionary Unit since the unit's establishment in 1997. She has written also on the role of women in the Federal Parliament.