Prime Minister Biography Stanley Bruce Student Name: Hunter Saifiti Due Date: 27/05/2018 Early Years. Stanley Bruce was born on 15th of April 1883 in St Kilda. He was the youngest of five children. His father John Bruce had emigrated from Ireland to Australia in 1858 when he was 18. His mother, Mary Henderson, was Irish and had married her cousin John after migrating to Australia in 1872 at the age of 24 John Bruce was a very talented businessman. A good golfer, he was one of the founders of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. John was an early supporter of future prime minister, Alfred Deakin. John's success ensured that Bruce, his sister Mary and brothers Ernest, William and Robert were born into affluence. Shortly after Bruce's birth the family moved to Toorak. However, John was an aloof and remote figure in the lives of his children, as Bruce later recounted. Despite their family's Presbyterian faith, Bruce was sent to Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Bruce would start to become an Anglican. Bruce was an average student but extremely active in the sporting life of the school. He was captain of the school football team, and captain of the school itself in 1901. Early Career. Stanley moved to Melbourne when he was 18 .His …show more content…
father John died in 1901, the same year that Stanley finished school. After a year in Melbourne Stanley moved to England with his mother and his sister. He entered at Cambridge University in January 1903. He graduated in 1906 and he was admitted as a barrister. He continued to coach for Cambridge and was known on the towpath as Bruggins. As A Prime Minister. Stanley was 39 when he was sworn in as a Prime Minister on 9th of February 1923 Australia’s second youngest Prime Minister after JC Watson. With the new Country Party, not willing to serve under Hughes, Stanley established a coalition with Country Party leader, Earle Page as the deputy Prime Minister. While generous in the allocation of portfolios to coalition ministers, Bruce was a firm and focused leader. He saw his role as head of government as requiring strong leadership, firm planning, and sound and efficient economic management.The Nationalists lost eleven seats and their majority in The House of Representatives in the election of 1922 Only three of these seats were picked up by the Labour party though, and Labor still lacked the numbers to form government in their own right. Rather, a breakaway anti-Hughes Liberal party took five government seats, while the Country Party increased their number to 14 and now held the balance of power. The only politically realistic option for the Nationalists to stay in office was to come to an agreement with the Country Party. However, Country Party leader Earle Page refused to support a Nationalist government with Hughes as prime minister, and negotiations throughout January and February failed to break the impasse. Rather than risk being defeated in the legislature, which might have resulted in the Governor General asking Labor to form government, Hughes surprised his colleagues by announcing his intention to resign on 2 February. With deputy leader Walter Massy Greene having lost his seat at the 1922 election, Hughes now sent for Bruce to take over as leader of the party. After some reluctance, Bruce finally agreed, although Hughes later regretted the decision and became one of the new prime minister's most outspoken detractors. Bruce's appointment as prime minister marked an important turning point in Australian political history. He was the first prime minister who had not been involved in the movement for Federation, who had not been a member of a colonial or state parliament, and who had not been a member of the original 1901 federal parliament . He was, in addition, the first prime minister to head a cabinet consisting entirely of Australian-born ministers.Yet Bruce himself was frequently caricatured in public as "an Englishman who happened to have been born in Australia". He drove a Rolls Royce, wore white spats, and was often seen as distant and lacking the common touch: characteristics that did little to personally endear him to the Australian public. Achievements as a Prime Minister. Stanley became Prime Minister on the 9 February in 1923.
Hughes had failed to get a absolute majority in the election and the Country Party also refused a coalition again. He was forced to recommend Bruce. Protecting his flank from Hughes by getting his approval for George Pearce to join the ministry, Bruce conceded to Earle Page five of the eleven portfolios, sufficient for the Country Party to value the coalition tactic. Throughout his six and a half years as prime minister his first priority was to maintain the coalition. Repeatedly he arranged an electoral pacts well in advance to forestall demands from his own party to do it alone. He was the architect of the most powerful and durable alliance in Australian
politics. Life After Being Prime Minister Stanley occupied a range of positions in his later years. Sharing his time between the UK (United Kingdom) and Australia. He was Chairman of the Finance Corporation Industry since 1946 and he continued in the role until 1957, providing finance to projects of benefit to the British national economy. He helped establish the program in Australia in 1954 and on a Commonwealth basis in 1956 and he became the first chancellor of the newly established Australian National University in 1952 and he took an active interest in development, especially as a research centre for the study of Asia and the Pacific. The residential college Bruce Hall was named in his honour, and he remained active in the life of the university until his retirement from the position in 1961. Bruce sat as director on many corporate boards in retirement, notably the National Bank of Australia P&O and the National Mutual Life Association. In 1947 he became the first Australian to sit in the House Of Lords.
After Charles finished his schooling he returned to Australia he taught briefly at Sydney Grammar School but then moved on to be a Legal Assistant in 1905 to 1907 he then resigned and did a series of stories in the Sydney Morning Herald as a reporte.
Ernie Barnes: Research of the Football Artist Ernie Barnes was and still is one of the most popular and well-respected black artists today. Born and raised in Durham, North Carolina, in 1938, during the time the south as segregated, Ernie Barnes was not expected to become a famous artist. However, as a young boy, Barnes would, “often [accompany] his mother to the home of the prominent attorney, Frank Fuller, Jr., where she worked as a [housekeeper]” (Artist Vitae, The Company of Art, 1999). Fuller was able to spark Barnes’ interest in art when he was only seven years old. Fuller told him about the various schools of art, his favorite painters, and the museums he visited (Barnes, 1995, p. 7).
William Lyon Mackenzie King was born in Kitchener, Ontario on December 17, 1874. His father was an unsuccessful lawyer who was not well off but who continuously provided for his family by living above his means. Mackenzie King’s mother was the daughter of William Lyon Mackenzie who was a leader of the Rebellion of 1837 which was fighting for responsible government. King’s mother continuously reminded her children of the trials her father had gone through and pushed them to continue...
He was dynamic and thus in due course very effective. His success as Minister of Munitions led to him becoming Prime Minister in December 1916, where he replaced Herbert Asquith. Most Liberal ministers resigned with Asquith, and about half the Liberal MPs (120) supported the old Prime Minister rather than the new. While the war continued it was said that he was ‘acting more like a president than a prime minister, his leadership style, was accumulating enemies, and thus storing up trouble in the future.
A. Victor Wickersham “American’s Worst Congressman” or better known as Victor Wickersham, who was given the title after he made a sham of being an Oklahoma’s Representative. Wickersham was aligned with the democratic party in Oklahoma, where he served Oklahoma on local, state, and federal levels. Wickersham was known for his private enterprise, a real estate business, which he ran out of the capital. He was also known for preventing military base closures after the end of World War II.
Prime Minister Robert Menzies was a believer in the need for ‘great and powerful friends’ and the idea of ‘forward defence’. Before the 1949 federal election, Menzies campaigned on the representation of the Labor Party as out of touch with Australia’s postwar ambitions. He was aided by Chifley’s willpower to cover union wage stresses and control increase. Predominantly injuring for Labor was a Communist-led coal strike in New South Wales, and the government’s practice of troops to
Did you know that it wasn’t until 19__ until an Australian Aboriginal graduated university? Well it was and that person was Charles Perkins.
Jackie Robinson did more in his short baseball career than anyone else ever did for the sport. He was always able to push on despite the criticisms and punishment he took from others. No other man can say that they broke the color barrier or that they changed the sport of baseball forever. To do what he did required strength and the ability to endure physical and mental pain. Jackie Robinson was the first African-American Major League Baseball player. He knew that if he failed to integrate baseball he could delay civil rights. By doing what he did, Jackie Robinson contributed greatly to the civil rights movement. His life experiences and hardships allowed him to leave a mark on civil rights that extended farther than just baseball.
...r the way in which he changed Australia and brought it out of an infancy dominated by British culture and turned into an adult country with its own culture, own social policies, national anthem and set of foreign policies. Thus it can be seen that even though Whitlam had his problems throughout his time office, from the PR disaster of the Khemlani loans affair to the blocking of supply and his dismissal by a Governor General he foolishly trusted, that his policy agenda and changes he enacted while in government changed Australian society and the ALP. Be it from his introduction of universal free health care, the removal of the death penalty, move towards a more multicultural nation, improved indigenous rights, introduction of no fault divorce or the introduction of Australia’s own national anthem, Whitlam did not fail at his goal, which was to transform Australia.
The Americans of African and European Ancestry did not have a very good relationship during the Civil war. They were a major cause of the Civil War. But, did they fix or rebuild that relationship after the war from the years 1865 to 1900? My opinion would be no. I do not believe that the Americans of African and European ancestry successfully rebuilt their relationship right after the Civil war. Even though slavery was finally slowly getting abolished, there was still much discrimination against the African Americans. The Jim Crow laws and the black codes discriminated against black people. The Ku Klux Klan in particular discriminated against black people. Even though the United States government tried to put laws into the Constitution to protect black people, the African Americans were discriminated in every aspect of life from housing, working, educating, and even going to public restrooms!
7 May 2014 After the Civil War, the victorious Union enacted a policy of Reconstruction in the former Confederate states. Reconstruction was aimed at creating as smooth a transition as possible for the southern states to re-enter the Union as well as enacting economic and social changes. However, several factors brought about its failure, and as a result the consequences can be seen in the race problems we still have today. In 1862, President Lincoln appointed temporary military governors to re-establish functional governments in occupied southern states. In order for a state to be allowed to re-enter the Union, it had to meet the criteria, which was established to be that at least 10 percent of the voting population polled in 1860 must denounce the Confederacy and swear allegiance to the Union again.
Reconstruction was the rebuilding after the war. The Reconstruction period lasted from 1865-1877. Reconstruction was not only the physical rebuilding but also the “political, economic, and social changes” (Berkin, Cherny, Gormly, Miller, 2013, 417). The stages of Reconstruction were the Presidential Reconstruction, Freedom and the Legacy of Slavery, Congressional Reconstruction and Black Reconstruction. Reconstruction started off as a success. It united the United States. States that succeeded from the union had made new constitutions and accepted the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments.
The civil rights movement of the 1960s led to a movement in the south that was known as the “second reconstruction”. This commonly held belief can be proven to be an accurate statement as shown by northerners wagging a moral finger at the south despite being racist themselves, although to a much less violent and hateful extent, Blacks being threatened against voting by whites, as well as an overall hateful tension between both sides of the “reconstruction”.
This quote, by Stanley Milgram (1974, p. 205), exemplifies the debate that exists around the topic of obedience. Obedient behaviours have been studied in Milgram’s famous obedience experiments, and evidence of atrocities being carried out as a result of obedience can be seen in situations such as the holocaust in World War Two (Mastroianni, 2000) and more recent events such as (My Lai). This essay will explain both sides of the debate, arguing for situation and individual factors that influence people to behave in particular ways. Therefore, an interactional approach is argued here, that the situation and individual influences cannot be disentangled. A brief explanation of Milgram’s baseline study (1963) will be introduced first, before evaluating the different interpretations Milgram held in later years. These evaluations will be used to display the opinions held about both sides of the argument, in which the situation and the individual person both play an important role in how a person will behave in regards to obedience to authority.
He was also dedicated to his work and set his mind to whatever task he was facing. Family life for Milne was very unusual, he experienced love and hate towards different members of his family. On January 18, 1882 in London, England. A. was born as the youngest son of Sarah Marie and John Van Milne. Collier, Nakamura 1685) A. A. and his two older brothers Davis Barrett (Barry) and Kenneth John (Ken) grew up in the Henley House. This was a school for boys that his father ran.