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Date of death Age at death Cause Frederick Thomas Sargood Free Trade: Victoria: 2 January 1903 [1] 68 William Russell Labor: South Australia: 28 June 1912 69 Heart disease [2] Gregor McGregor Labor South Australia 13 August 1914 65 Heart disease [3] Robert Guthrie Nationalist: South Australia 20 January 1921 63 Struck by a tram [4] John Adamson ...
The National Archives of Australia (NAA), formerly known as the Commonwealth Archives Office and Australian Archives, is an Australian Government agency that is the official repository for all federal government documents. It collects, preserves and provides public access to these documents, as well as other archival material related to ...
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (RCIADIC) (1987–1991), also known as the Muirhead Commission, was a Royal Commission appointed by the Australian Government in October 1987 to Federal Court judge James Henry Muirhead QC, to study and report upon the underlying social, cultural and legal issues behind the deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people ...
In Australia, the thirty-year rule applied to Commonwealth (federal) government records, except for Cabinet handbooks (closed for fifty years) and raw census records (closed for 99 years). Those periods were laid down in the Archives Act 1983 .
The importance of British records in documenting the history and development of Australia was recognised by historians in the late nineteenth century. Several Australian writers and historians had drawn public attention to the extensive original records concerning Australia held in the Public Record Office, London, and other repositories of ...
Of the 31 prime ministers, 24 have been born in Australia. Of the ones that were not born in Australia, six were born in the United Kingdom: [3] Reid and Fisher were born in Scotland; Cook, Hughes and Abbott were born in England; Gillard was born in Wales; Watson was born in Chile. Of the 24 prime ministers born within Australia:
The Lyons government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. It was made up of members of the United Australia Party in the Australian Parliament from January 1932 until the death of Joseph Lyons in 1939. Lyons negotiated a coalition with the Country Party after the 1934 Australian federal election.
Riordan was elected as the Australian Labor Party member for the House of Representatives seat of Phillip at the 1972 election, defeating the Liberal, William Aston.He was Minister for Housing and Construction from June 1975 until the dismissal of the Whitlam Government in November 1975.