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	Victorian Ministries, 1855 - Current - Parliament of Victoria
		United Australia Party secretary and whip 1940, deputy leader 1940, leader 1940-1945, leader Liberals 1945-1949 and Liberal Country Party 1949-1951, opposition leader 1940-1942,1950-1951; expelled Liberal Country Party Sept 1952; formed Electoral Reform League (Vic.
		Minister of Education, of Labour and Deputy Premier Sept 1943-Oct 1945, Premier and Treasurer Nov 1947-June 1950, Minister of Lands, of Water Supply and of Soldier Settlement Dec 1948, Minister of Transport and of Electrical Undertakings Nov-Dec 1949, Premier, Treasurer and Attorney-General Oct 1952.
		United Australia Party; Liberal Party; Liberal Country Party
	www.parliament.vic.gov.au /history/premier_details.cfm?pid=54 (212 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: 1859
		June 6 - The British Crown colony of Queensland in Australia is created by devolving part of the territory of New South Wales
		July 6 - Australia: Queensland is established as a separate colony from New South Wales.
		Brisbane declared the capital of newly-made-separate colony Queensland, Australia
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=1859 (1380 words)

	Rogers, William Percy - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Educated University of Western Australia (BSc 1936, MSc 1938) and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD 1940).
		Agricultural Research Council Postdoctorate, Molteno Institute, University of Cambridge 1940-45, research staff, CSIRO McMaster Laboratory, Sydney 1946-51, Professor of Zoology, University of Adelaide 1952-62, Professor of Parasitology, University of Adelaide 1962-66, Professor of Parasitology, Waite Agrcultural Research Institute 1966-79, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Adelaide 1980-88.
		He was interested in the 'stimulus' or 'signal' from the host which induced development of the infective stage of parasites.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P003007b.htm (162 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Foreign Relations
		Although there were many earlier contacts with the outside world, the development of Australia's external relations in a formal sense began at the outset of World War II, with the establishment of separate diplomatic missions in Washington and Tokyo in 1940.
		The records deal with Australia's relations with Asia in the twentieth century and have been chosen because they focus on some of the most significant issues in the emerging relationship between Australia and its neighbours.
		The documents focus on a number of issues that have defined Australia's relations with the region, and are drawn together here for the benefit of other students and scholars studying Australia's relations with the Asia-Pacific region.
	www.naa.gov.au /the_collection/foreign_relations.html (1578 words)

	Amazon.com: War Diaries 1939 - 1945: Books: Alan Brooke Alanbrooke,Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke,Alex Danchev,Daniel Todman,Field Marshall Lord Alanbrooke
		He describes the Dunkirk evacuation in May 1940; the nightly German bombings of London that continued for many months after September 1940; the defensive measures Britain took to guard against attack; the German defeat of France; and meetings with American allies to plan the invasion of Europe and the defeat of the Axis powers.
		In the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, Britain sustained devastating defeats in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Burma leaving India and Australia vulnerable.
		Begun as a substitute for regular conversation on the day's events with his wife, War Diaries 1939-45 records Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke's (1883-1963) service as commander of the doomed corps in France, as head of the evacuation from Dunkirk, and then, beginning in 1941, as Churchill's chief of staff.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520233018?v=glance (1961 words)

	Convention between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Switzerland concerning Legal Proceedings [1940] ATS 2
		[3] The Convention entered into force for Australia 11 February 1940.
		Entry into force for Australia: 11 February 1940
		Convention between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Switzerland concerning Legal Proceedings [1940] ATS 2
	www.austlii.edu.au /au/other/dfat/treaties/19400002.html (1961 words)

	Communist Party of Australia Archive
		Jack Kavanagh joins Communist League by Jack Kavanagh, 1940
		Immigration and the “White Australia Policy”, by R. Dixon 1945
		An Outline of Party History by Lance Sharkey, 1944
	www.marxists.org /history/international/comintern/sections/australia (66 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	Wikinfo 1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1964_Summer_Olympics (290 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	1964 Summer Olympics
		Tokyo had already been awarded with the organisation of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this honour had been passed to Helsinki because of Japan 's involvement in China.
		Yoshinori Sakai[?], who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day the atomic bomb exploded there.
		The 1940 Olympics were eventually cancelled because of the outbreak of World War II.
	www.fastload.org /19/1964_Summer_Olympics.html (251 words)

	Orange
		Sour orange has been reinstated in recent years because tristeza has been more or less dormant since the 1940's and sour orange is now the prevailing stock for 50% of the orange and grapefruit trees in the state.
		A vinous decoction of husked orange seeds is prescribed for urinary ailments in China and the juice of fresh orange leaves or a decoction of the dried leaves may be taken as a carminative or emmenagogue or applied on sores and ulcers.
		Sour orange, resistant to foot rot, became the preferred rootstock in low hammock and flatwoods soils with high water table until the discovery of the virus disease, tristeza, in Florida orange groves in 1952.
	www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/morton/orange.html (7762 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Heavy cruiser HMAS Australia of the Kent class
		In September 1940, HMAS Australia was called upon to relieve the cruiser HMS Fiji after that ship had been damaged by torpedo from U-32 whilst escorting a Dakar bound convoy, she narrowly missed being torpedoed herself on the 8th, by U-56, but because of a malfunctioning torpedo, she escaped.
		HMAS Australia inflicted heavy shell hits on the large French destroyer L’Audacieux setting her on fire, her crew beached the vessel.
		In November, the Australian cruiser HMAS Shropshire joined HMAS Australia and was temporarily transferred from Milme Bay to the New Hebrides to reinforce the South Pacific forces.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/1173.html (1620 words)

	ModelWarships reveiw
		Australia even operated in the North Atlantic in 1940 where she was damaged by shells from the French cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm during the attack on Dakar.
		The HMAS Australia was a Kent Class Heavy Cruiser constructed in 1928 in Glasgow, Scotland.
		Australia survived the war and served until 1954 before being sold for scrap the following year.
	www.modelwarships.com /reviews/ships/hmas/australia/700-com/australia.html (708 words)

	Darwin, Northern Territory
		Darwin is Australia's tropical capital and the gateway to Asia and Europe.
		The new Darwin has a population of around 80,000 and must surely be the most cosmopolitan community in Australia with some 50 ethnic groups represented.
		Improved communications and facilities, plus the discovery of uranium at nearby Rum Jungle, attracted new residents to Darwin in the late 1940's and the impetus has continued.
	www.wilmap.com.au /darwin.html (708 words)

	Australian Navy Ships--HMAS Australia (1928-1955)
		She went to the north Atlantic in mid-1940 and, in September of that year took part in the British Navy attack on Dakar, where she was hit by shells from the French cruisers Georges Leygues and Montcalm.
		Australia later participated in the Leyte invasion in October 1944 and the landings at Lingayen Gulf in January 1945.
		HMAS Australia was sold for scrapping in January 1955.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/austral/aussh-ag/austr2.htm (557 words)

	ABC Western Australia » Defence Forces Contingent - Navy
		The ex HMAS Sydney (WA) Association are mainly Western Australian sailors that served in the Royal Australian Navy's cruiser HMAS Sydney from her commissioning in 1935, in her service in Australian waters, and during her service in the Mediterranean, during 1940/1941.
		She was in the task force when the HMAS Australia was hit by the kamakazies (Japanese fighter planes).
		HMAS Canberra: Prior to World War II Flagship of the Royal Australian Navy- at outbreak of war on escort and patrol duty in Indian Ocean.
	www.abc.net.au /wa/anzac/sea.htm (3355 words)

	Inglewood Australia - Inglewood City guide and Inglewood destination guide
		Inglewood is creating Australia's Olive Capital and is emerging as the hub of the Olive industry with many major groves on its borders and a major processing facility opened March 2000.
		Inglewood was established in 1862, the first building being Browns Inn near the area where Patrick Leslie had crossed the McIntyre Brook in 1940.
		Inglewood services a diverse rural economy which produces sheep, cattle, timber products as well as lucerne, grapes and a diversity of horticultural crops.
	www.hoteljump.com /inglewood-_-australia-tourist-information.phtml (3355 words)

	Conscription - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conscription of men into the armed forces of New Zealand came into effect in 1940, and was abolished in 1972.
		Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only) citizens to serve in their armed forces.
		Conscription, particularly when the conscripts are being sent to foreign wars that do not directly affect the security of the nation, has historically been highly politically contentious in democracies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conscription (8401 words)

	HMAS Australia
		HMAS Australia paid off on 12 December 1921 and, in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, was sunk with her main armament 24 miles from Sydney on 12 April 1924.
		The second HMAS Australia was a 'County' class heavy cruiser laid down by John Brown and Company of Clydebank at Glasgow in Scotland on 26 August 1925, launched on 17 March 1927 and commissioned on 24 April 1928.
		During World War II she damaged the French destroyer L'Audacieux, which was then beached, off Dakar, Senegal, 23-24 September 1940, escorted convoys and patrolled the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/hm/hmas_australia.html (8401 words)

	f63.htm
		Born: 1854- Wingham, NSW, Australia Christened: Died: 1942 - Wingham, NSW, Australia Buried:
		NSW, Australia Christened: Died: 1940 - Paterson, NSW, Australia Buried:
		Born: 1875 - Patricks Plain, NSW, Australia Christened: Died: After 1945 Buried:
	web.ukonline.co.uk /aganderson/legacy/all/f63.htm (8401 words)

	Quorn, Mid North, South Australia
		With the construction of a new line to Alice Springs from Tarcoola in the early 1980's rail traffic through Quorn diminished and the Pichi Richi group assumed the task of preserving the town's railway history and its reputation as Australia's busiest railway town of the 1940's ferrying coal from Leigh Creek to the north.
		Quorn has many historic buidings and the 4 main hotels and the courthouse are all classified by the National Trust.
		The Pichi Richi Pass is part of the Flinders Ranges between Quorn and Woolshed Flat at the head of the Pichi Richi Pass.
	www.wilmap.com.au /quorn.html (310 words)

	The World at War
		While a member of the Labor party he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1928, became Minister of Defence in Scullin’s Government and lost his Seat in 1931 only to regain it in 1940.
		The modern-day National Party, nowadays in coalition with the Liberal Party, had its political origins dating back to 1910 when the state country parties and farmer’s union were formed because of rural dissatisfaction with the urban policies of Labor and the overall view of the Nationalist Party.
		He believed that Australia should be seen as an independent nation in world affairs, attended the Peace Conference of 1919, made sure that the other delegates remember that 60,000 Australian died in the war and ensured Australia as one of the founding members of the League of Nations.
	worldatwar.net /article/australianpolicy (2561 words)

	Soda ash and glass in Australia
		Australia’s major container (bottles) glass manufacturer is ACI Glass supplying 96 percent of Australia’s requirements from Melbourne and Adelaide with technology from the US parent company Owens-Illinios group.
		In Australia soda ash is manufactured using the Solvay process using limestone, salt and coke as the raw materials.
		The process potentially produces an equal mass of ammonium chloride, though in Australia as in most countries, the ammonia is recovered with lime with calcium chloride used in road de-icing else, like in Australia disposed of as waste (outlet to sea).
	www.chemlink.com.au /soda.htm (972 words)

	United Australia Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The UAP was absorbed into the Liberal Party of Australia at the founding of the latter organization on 31 August 1945.
		Menzies did not have widespread support, particularly from the Country Party, and various plots were made to advance former Prime Ministers Billy Hughes or Stanley Bruce to the leadership of the UAP.
		The coalition was reformed under new Country Party leader Archie Cameron in March 1940.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Australia_Party (972 words)

	Legacy Report
		• He served in the military S 26697, 48th Btn & 108 Lt AA Regt in 1940-1942 in Australia.
		Doreen was born in 1926 in Renmark, South Australia.
		Mary was born on 3 Feb 1915 in Goodwood, South Australia, Australia, died on 14 Dec 2002 in Angaston, South Australia, Australia, at age 87, and was buried on 19 Dec 2002 in Nuriootpa, South Australia, Australia.
	users.senet.com.au /~agpeake/Peake.htm (972 words)

	Goolwa Maritime Gallery
		Imported to South Australia during 1915 in sections and it was assembled at Mannum.
		She finally came to rest on the bottom at Goolwa 1940 after acting as the barrage steam plant, it is estimated the vessel moved 220,000 tons of material during her working life.
		This new complex, reflecting the art and history of maritime involvement in SA and the South Coast in particular, is a unique addition to the tourist attractions of the region.
	www.murray-river.net /attractions/maritime-museum/default.htm (972 words)

	Gladstone
		Gladstone was one of the many towns born of the great wheat drive which followed the proclamation of the Strangways Act in 1869 and the good seasons of the early 1870s.
		Gladstone soon became a thriving community of farmers, railway men, goal employees and townsmen and their wives and children.
		A school was also established in 1874 and the Gladstone Hotel in 1875, run by the father of C.J. Dennis.
	southaustralianhistory.com.au /gladstone.htm (972 words)

	Claremont
		Claremont was now indisputably the team to beat but, in 1940, took the situation in its stride, once again heading the list going into the finals (this time with a 15-5 record).
		Claremont again finished runners up a year later after raising hopes, first by finishing the home and away rounds with a 13-5-1 record to qualify for the finals as minor premiers, and then by overcoming East Fremantle in the 2nd semi final by 14 points.
		From the Claremont perspective, such a seismic lapse in concentration was highly uncharacteristic, and therefore somewhat worrying; however, at least it had the virtue of rendering the defeat explicable, and hence of giving the club's 'brains trust' a readily accessible fulcrum for improvement.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /Claremont_Part_One.htm (2657 words)

	Papers of Daisy Bates
		A note dated November 1940 by Bates on the first folder states this to be a correct re-typing of all her original matter (the manuscript original and copy being in the Commonwealth Archives, Canberra), as copied for [the publisher] John Murray and housed in the Bank of Australasia in Adelaide.
		Copies of maps of Western Australia, showing geographical distribution and social organization of tribes, where dialects were obtained, totems and, for part of the Murchison River area, the nomenclature of waters, food areas, camping spots and variations in group area names.
		There is evidence from Bates’ annotations of her lists that some were sent to Lord Salisbury in December 1936 and that others were noted as missing by her in 1938, after they were collected for possible inclusion in her book ‘The passing of the Aborigines’.
	www.library.adelaide.edu.au /ual/special/bates.html (2657 words)

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