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Builds busy law practice including four cases in the High Court. Birth of second
son, Ian. Apart from the
High Court Menzies was also very active as an Advocate in the Commonwealth
Conciliation and Arbitration Court."… the 1920s were marked in Australia by bitter social tensions and intermittent industrial conflict which put the arbitration system under great strain and produced much litigation. But in Menzies' case a close concern with the legal problems created by these troubles was to have a special significance: indirectly it became one of the major influences which drew him into active politics." |
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Bruce-Page Government, February 9 November 5:
A strike by Victorian Police against a new supervision system leaves
Melbourne undefended, tempting vandals and looters into the city. The
government dismisses all the strikers and hastily swears in special
constables who lead a baton charge to clear Melbourne's streets of an
estimated 100,000 people. The Sun newspaper headline reads: "Running
like rabbits from a baton charge of special constables". Silver and
lead are discovered at Mt Isa, Queensland. Women in Victoria
are granted the right to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly
in August. Construction
of the new federal Parliament House in
Canberra begins. Intended
only as a "provisional" home, it would be used by the Parliament
for 61 years. "Vegemite" is
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Hitler attempts to seize power in Munich but fails and is imprisoned.
His book Mein Kampf is dictated during his nine month prison term. Massive inflation
in Germany leads to the collapse of the currency. The Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established. Japan's biggest
earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama: 300,000 killed and 2.5 million
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