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Begins Law Degree at University of Melbourne after winning a State Scholarship
and English Exhibition."His hard work and ability won him an exhibition for university study, and he entered Melbourne University in 1913 to study Law. By this time politics was becoming a family tradition: his uncle was a federal MP and his father had been elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly." |
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January: First Commonwealth of Australia postage stamp is issued. It features
a kangaroo. March 12: Canberra
is named - politicians and official guests witness the Governor-General,
Lord Denman, laying the foundation stone of a federal capital column.
Shortly after Lady Denman said: "I name this capital of Australia
Canberra". Other suggestions for the capital's name were Shakespeare
and Sydmeladlperbriho. Cook Government,
June 24. Basic
wage is now 8/- per day.
Royal Australian Navy takes delivery of its first ships. |
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Anti-German riots in Alsace-Lorraine. Third Irish
Home Rule Bill is rejected by House of Lords; threat of civil war in Ireland,
formation of private Protestant army (Ulster Volunteers) to oppose Home
Rule. Suffragette
demonstrations in London - Mrs Pankhurst is imprisoned. Geiger invents
his counter to measure radioactivity. George Bernard
Shaw's Pygmalion is published. D H Lawrence
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