Minute book of the Nationalist Party of Australia, 1918-1968 (bulk 1918-1920) [manuscript]
- Bib ID:
- 5020396
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Nationalist Party (Australia)
- Access Conditions:
- Available for research. Not for loan.
- Description:
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- [1918-1968]
- 0.03 m. (1 folder)
- Summary:
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MS Acc10.052 comprises a minute book containing minutes from Nationalist Party meetings held between 1918 and 1920, and minutes of a meeting of the ministerial party, 25 September 1919. Significant people mentioned include William Morris Hughes, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Littleton Groom, William Alexander Watt, William Guthrie Spence and George Foster Pearce. Tipped into the minute book are a telegram to John Thompson, Government Whip, from Senator Thomas Bakhap, of 23 June 1919; a letter to John Thompson of 19 June 1919 from Henry Robert Maguire Pigott, MHR; a note on Parliament of the Commonwealth notepaper regarding discussion of the pension of the Chief Justice; and, a clipping from the Sydney morning herald about political parties, 29 October 1968. The minute book was held in the care of the Power family (1 folder).
- Biography/History:
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The Nationalist Party of Australia was the result of a merger of the National Labor Party and the Commonwealth Liberal Party in January 1917 by Prime Minister Billy Hughes, in part as a war time expedient. Some states and individuals regarded this as a permanent fusion, others did not. The Party remained in existence after the end of World War I, but from 1919 became more conservative in outlook. In 1923, the Nationalists formed a coalition with the Country Party, with Stanley Bruce (Nationalist, Prime Minister) and Earle Page (Country Party, Treasurer). Electoral defeat in 1929 marked the end of the power and influence of the Nationalist Party, after which it was absorbed into the new United Australia Party under Joseph Lyons.
- Notes:
- Manuscript reference no.: MS Acc10.052.
- Subject:
- Time Coverage:
- 1918-1968
- Copyright:
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