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Develops general law practice."… still as a junior, he conducted on behalf of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers a case in the High Court in which he secured a reversal of the Court's earlier doctrine of the immunity of state government instrumentalities from Commonwealth legislation. This case is acknowledged to have been a landmark in constitutional history, and also to have thrust Menzies into the limelight and his career upwards." |
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Edith Cowan, is the first woman to be elected to a state parliament (Western
Australia).
Her formal introduction to parliament is witnessed by curious
onlookers from the public gallery. Anzac Day: an
Australian tradition is born as a nation salutes its war heroes. Thousands
of soldiers parade through the streets and thousands more line the route
to honour the returned and the fallen. Dr Earle Page
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Nazis are first active in Germany; beginning of massive inflation. The Irish Free
State is established. Ku Klux Klan
racial violence occurs in Southern USA. The Klan is a US secret society
which uses violence to defend white Protestant supremacy. |
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