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Schoolboy Robert becomes a newspaper boy:
"Robert, anxious even as a small boy to get on in the world, and even more anxious to have a few extra pence in his pocket, sought permission to distribute newspapers for the newsagent down the street. This was forbidden, but not at all daunted, he proceeded to sell them at the railway station where he did a roaring trade. Soon this got to his father's ears and heavy paternal footsteps were heard hurrying to the station. The boy, seeing by his father's appearance that the game was up, but being full of spirit, dashed up to his parent and shouted with glee, 'Buy a paper, sir'." |
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Deakin Government, September 24 Australia is
the first nation to give women both the right to vote and the right to
stand for parliament. The High Court
of Australia is established.
The first sitting took place in
the Banco Court of the Supreme Court building in Melbourne on 6 October. The
Bench comprised three distinguished
people who had been prominent in the Federal movement.
They were
The Chief Justice, Sir Samuel Griffith,
Sir Edmund Barton and
Richard Edward O'Connor. Billy Hughes
launches a ferocious attack in parliament on the protectionist policies
of PM Alfred Deakin. The protectionists believe that tariffs protect Australian
jobs and products against cheap imports, encourage secondary industries
and provide a means to ensure that the benefits of Australia's world-competitive
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Wright Brothers, Wilbur and Orville, make the first powered flight in
a heavier-than-air machine, at Kitty Hawk, South Carolina, USA. Henry Ford sets
up his Motor Company. The first coast
to coast crossing of America by car, takes 65 days. Marie and Pierre
Curie share the Nobel Prize for Physics with scientist Henri Becquerel
for their work on radioactivity. Marie Curie, discoverer of radium, becomes
the first woman Nobel Laureate and, at 36, is still the youngest. Formation of
the Women's Social and Political Union in Britain by Emmeline Pankhurst
to demand votes for women. It is not until 1918, after proving their ability
in almost every occupation during World War I, that women over the age
of 30 acquire the vote. They gain equality of franchise with men in 1928. First Tour
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