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In 1965, a group of concerned Australian women formed the anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons, which was established in Sydney with other branches later formed in Wollongong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide. The movement protested against conscription of Australians to fight in the Vietnam War and made the plight of ...
Campaign poster. It's Time was a political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam during the 1972 federal election in Australia.Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal-Country Party coalition) government, Labor put forward a raft of major policy proposals, accompanied by a television advertising campaign of prominent ...
The Order of Australia was established on 14 February 1975 by letters patent of Queen Elizabeth II, acting as Queen of Australia, and on the advice of the newly elected Labor prime minister, Gough Whitlam. The original order had three levels: Companion (AC), Officer (AO) and Member (AM) as well as two divisions: Civil Division and Military ...
The Youth Employment Services (YES) was established in the late 1960s in Toronto. The founding of the organization is associated with employment in Canada. [2] In 1998, YES opened Canada's first Youth Business Centre to provide young entrepreneurs with individual business skills training and help them secure start-up loans. [3]
In 1986, Gough completed a Bachelor of Arts (pre-history and anthropology) at the University of Western Australia. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 1989 she earned a Diploma of art at St Brigid's and Northbridge TAFE Colleges in Perth , and from 1991 to 1993 studied for a Bachelor of Visual Arts, at Curtin University in Perth.
Perth Modern School Maitland Primary School (Maitland, SA) University of Western Australia (B.A., LL.B.) University College, Oxford Australian National University (law, no degree) Paul Keating: 1991–1996: De La Salle College (Sydney) Belmore Technical College (Sydney) – John Howard: 1996–2007: Canterbury Boys' High School (Sydney)
The Perth Regiment recruited the 110th Battalion from Perth county. The 110th Battalion embarked for Great Britain on 31 October 1916 with a strength of 679 all ranks. On 2 January 1917, personnel of the 110th Battalion were absorbed by the 8th Battalion, CEF to provide reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field.
Edward Gough Whitlam [a] (11 July 1916 – 21 October 2014) was the 21st prime minister of Australia, serving from December 1972 to November 1975.To date the longest-serving federal leader of the Australian Labor Party (ALP), he was notable for being the head of a reformist and socially progressive government that ended with his controversial dismissal by the then-governor-general of Australia ...