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Becomes vice president of the Young Nationalists organisation."In the later months of 1930 and into 1931 Menzies' speeches, like those of other orthodox conservatives, began displaying a new emphasis, on the threat of inflation and on denouncing expansionary monetary policies increasingly pressed by left-wing members of the federal Labor Caucus. This subject lent itself to witty simplifications to which public audiences - most of them already converted - readily warmed." |
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Prime Minister Scullin defies the King to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs as
Governor-General,the first Australian born incumbent of the office. Don Bradman
scores a world record 452 not out in one innings for NSW against Queensland. The Dominion
League of Western Australia begin a secessionist campaign demanding a
referendum to test public opinion on the formal withdrawal of WA from
the Commonwealth. A meeting in Perth drew a crowd of 2,000 people in support
of secession. "It is
no use having a perfect voice unless you have brains, personality, magnetism,
great willpower, health, strength, and determination. If they are to find
a woman to take my place, she must have all these qualities - and such
women come only once in a century. I have been trying to get a successor
- but I have not seen one." - Dame Nellie Melba. The best-known
racehorse in Australian turf history, Phar Lap wins the Melbourne
Cup. A telegram sent by punters to Phar Lap reads "If you could
only stand up on your hind legs and talk, we'd make you Prime Minister
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Australia is connected by telephone link with Britain. Planet Pluto
is discovered. Women civil
servants in London vote in favour of compulsory retirement of women on
marriage. Mahatma Gandhi
in India begins his 100 mile march to the sea. His purpose is to defy
the British law establishing a government monopoly on producing salt.
He completes the journey in 25 days. British flyer
Amy Johnson arrives in Darwin after her epic solo flight from London,
the first woman to do so. The flight took 19 days in her Gypsy Moth biplane
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