Mr Big Of Bankstown

Author : Andrew Moore
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Australia
ISBN : 1742582788

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Mr Big of Bankstown by Andrew Moore Pdf

"When an article printed in a local newspaper in 1955 resulted in the gaoling of rough-hewn Bankstown businessman Ray Fitzpatrick and trouble-making journalist Frank Browne, one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Australia's history unfolded. Mr Big of Bankstown mixes bribery, corruption, violence and power-wrangling, to reveal the Underbelly of 1950s Australia. Fitzpatrick's penchant for rorting the system and Browne's reputation for fiery verbal attacks got the pair in trouble when they used Fitzpatrick's newspaper to teach MP Charles Morgan a lesson. In an unprecedented use of parliamentary privilege, Fitzpatrick and Browne were imprisoned solely on a vote of the House of Representatives -- without charge, trial or legal representation for making unsubstantiated and erroneous claims. Amongst the business rivalries and factional politics of post-war Bankstown, the Fitzpatrick and Browne affair pitted the right to free speech against parliamentary privilege."--Publisher's website.

Author : Paul Hogben,Judith O'Callaghan
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781742246802

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Leisure Space by Paul Hogben,Judith O'Callaghan Pdf

Dinner at Australia Square’s revolving Summit Restaurant, sipping cocktails at the Chevron in Potts Point, hanging out at a Skyline drive-in … Mid-twentieth-century Sydneysiders embraced leisure like never before. Leisure Space details the architecture and design that transformed their city – through its new hotels, motels, restaurants, bars, clubs, shopping centres, drive-ins and golf courses, including landmark buildings such as the Gazebo and the Wentworth Hotel. With stunning images from Max Dupain, Mark Strizic and other outstanding Australian photographers, Leisure Space explores a dynamic period in Sydney’s history and the dramatic impact of modernism on the city’s built environment.

Author : Ross Fitzgerald,Stephen Holt
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781742231327

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Alan the Red Fox Reid by Ross Fitzgerald,Stephen Holt Pdf

Arguably Australia's most influential political journalist, Alan 'The Red Fox' Reid covered Australian politics from the 1930s to the 1980s. During his career he was both a chronicler of, and a player in, Australian politics. In this book Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt take us into a Machiavellian behind-the-scenes world of recurrent plots, crises and leadership challenges, and show how it was possible for a skilled journalist to help shape both public perceptions and actual outcomes of political power plays.

Author : Stephen Wilks
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760465766

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‘Order, Order!’ by Stephen Wilks Pdf

‘Order, Order!’: A Biographical Dictionary of Speakers, Deputy Speakers and Clerks of the Australian House of Representatives shines a first-ever historical light on the remarkable men and women who have served in these national offices since Federation. The Speakers include Frederick Holder, whose campaign to embed a Westminster-style Speakership died with him when he collapsed dramatically in the parliament; the much-loved Joan Child, Australia’s first female Speaker, whose struggles as a widow with five children fostered her commitment to social justice and made her, in the words of another Speaker, Anna Burke, ‘pretty fierce’; and Ian Sinclair, a warhorse of a parliamentarian who seemed to prove the poacher-turned-gamekeeper principle. The Deputy Speakers, a particularly eclectic assortment, include the strange and bleakly serious James Fowler, who once hopefully mailed a film synopsis to the American director Cecil B. DeMille and who ended his days warning of the perils of democracy. Amongst the Clerks are Frank Green, who, at the height of the Cold War, indiscreetly befriended members of the Communist Party, and the popular Jack Pettifer—a true child of parliament—who grew up in an apartment in the building. This book includes analysis of what sorts of individuals typically filled these vital parliamentary positions, and the appearance of an Australian model of the Speakership based on pragmatic compromise. All three offices are typically more than just creatures of political parties—something that Australians should be prepared to defend against the remorseless encroachment of political partisanship.

Author : Ed Vere
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780241358863

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Mr Big by Ed Vere Pdf

Mr Big is strong, Mr Big is tough, Mr Big is . . . well . . . BIG! He has just one small problem - because of the way he looks he just can't get people to stick around. How can he show them that although he may look a little scary, he is just a great big softy inside? With his trademark bold colour and masterful graphic simplicity, Ed Vere sensitively and humorously tackles the universal and current subject of inclusion, reminding the reader that to get to know someone you need to look beyond their exterior. This is the third picture book from an exciting new talent, whose previous titles The Getaway and Banana have received great critical acclaim.

Author : Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Australia
ISBN : UCAL:B3965199

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Parliamentary Debates, House of Representatives, Weekly Hansard by Australia. Parliament. House of Representatives Pdf

Author : New South Wales
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : SRLF:D0002953396

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Government Gazette by New South Wales Pdf

Author : Australian Labor Party. New South Wales Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000014293948

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Traditions for Reform in New South Wales by Australian Labor Party. New South Wales Branch Pdf

Author : Diane Langmore
Publisher : The Miegunyah Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780522853827

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Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1981-1990 by Diane Langmore Pdf

Volume 17 of the Australian Dictionary of Biography contains 658 biographies of individuals who died between 1981 and 1990. The first of two volumes for the decade, it presents a colourful mosaic of twentieth-century Australian life. It contains biographies of well-known identities such as Sir Henry Bolte, Sir Robert Askin, Sir Reginald Ansett, Sir Macfarlane Burnet, Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, Sir Arthur Coles, Robert Holmes-O-Court, Sir Warwick Fairfax, Sir Edmund Herring, Albert Facey, Donald Friend, Sir Roy Grounds, Sir Bernard Heinze and Sir Robert Helpmann. Eminent Australian women in the volume include Dame Elizabeth Couchman, Dame Kate Campbell, Dame Doris Fitton, Dame Zara Holt and Lady (Maie) Casey. Although many of the women achieved prominence in those professions conventionally regarded as the preserve of women, othersandmdash;such as Ruby Boye-Jones, coast-watcher; Ellen Cashman, union organiser; Elsie Chauvel, film-maker; Dorothy Crawford, radio producer; Ruth Dobson, diplomat; Mary Hodgkin, anthropologist; Margaret Kelly, restaurateur; and Patricia Jarrett, journalistandmdash;demonstrate that some women at least were breaking free of the constraints of traditional expectations. The lives of fifteen Indigenous Australians are included, as are those of a number of immigrants who fled from persecution in Europe to establish a new life in Australia.

Author : Australia. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0001976661

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Parliamentary Debates by Australia. Parliament Pdf

Author : New South Wales. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0006535033

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Parliamentary Debates by New South Wales. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Australia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213163236

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Overland by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105015326437

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Aircraft by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rick Rothacker
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Banks and banking
ISBN : 0895873818

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Banktown by Rick Rothacker Pdf

With a cast containing ambitious CEOs, brash traders and powerful government officials, Banktown is poised to become the definitive account of how our national financial crisis played out in Charlotte and how its aftermath belted the economy and the pride of one of the New Souths brightest skylines.

Author : New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1800
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119247299

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Votes & Proceedings by New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council Pdf