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Admitted to the Victorian Bar and to the High Court of Australia in May.
Menzies is the first of the few pupils accepted to read with the brilliant
barrister Owen Dixon."It is the practice of a newly called barrister to 'read' in the chambers of some leading junior. He reads the briefs that come in; he is encouraged to discuss them with his chief. He is, of course, free to accept briefs of his own, and if he is lucky, as I was, gets a few. But his great advantage is that he sees a busy junior at work and at close quarters. The law comes alive for him. He begins to know how little he knows and what a world of difference there is between academic learning and the same learning when applied to the tangled facts of life." |
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November 11: World War I ends - more than 320,000 Australians enlisted
and served overseas of whom over 60,000 were killed in action during Word
War I. Population 5
million. The Magic
Pudding written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay, and Snugglepot
and Cuddlepie, written and illustrated by May Gibbs, are published. |
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Treaty between Russia and Germany: Russia withdraws from the war. Execution of
ex-Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family. Bolshevik government
in Russia nationalizes large-scale industrial enterprises. Revolution in
Germany: Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates and flees to Holland when defeated
Germany declares itself a Republic. November 11
World War I ends: Germany agrees to an Armistice which is signed by Germany
and the Allies. Civil war in
Ireland. Women over the
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