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	ben chifley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joseph Benedict Chifley (September 22 1885 - June 13 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers.
		Born in Bathurst, New South Wales, Chifley was the son of a flsmith of Irish Catholic descent.
		Chifley saw the strike as a move by the Communist Party to challenge Labor's place as the party of the working class, and he sent in the army to break the strike.
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	Prime Minister - Joseph Benedict Chifley. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chifley disagreed with the commission’s findings and submitted a minority report calling for nationalisation of the banks as the only way to ensure the system was run in the interests of the whole community.
		Chifley was elected by Caucus to the Cabinet and, to the surprise of some, was appointed by Curtin as Treasurer.
		Chifley and his colleagues were also determined that the economic benefits of Australia’s wartime expansion should flow to the workers who made defence production possible, and who had been denied so much through the pre-war depression years.
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	CRC - About JB Chifley
		Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley was Australian Prime Minister from 1945 until 1949.
		Chifley died as leader of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party in 1951 in Canberra.
		In Ben Chifley's memory, the Chifley Research Centre endeavours to develop informed, reformist public policy dedicated to the pursuit of the light on the hill he articulated so enduringly.
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	Ben Chifley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joseph Benedict Chifley (September 22 1885 - June 13 1951), Australian politician and 16th (additional info and facts about Prime Minister of Australia) Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers.
		Chifley saw the strike as a move by the (A political party that actively advocates a communist form of government; in Communist countries it is the sole political party of the state) Communist Party to challenge Labor's place as the party of the working class, and he sent in the army to break the strike.
		According to a on the topic, held in 1997 after the Labour party had regained government, the decision to rename Chifley University reflected a desire to attach the term of Western Sydney to institutions of lasting significance, and that the idea ultimately received the support of Bob Carr, later the Premier of New South Wales.
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	Joseph Benedict Chifley Biography / Biography of Joseph Benedict Chifley Biography
		Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885-1951), prime minister of Australia, was one of the ablest and most successful leaders of the Australian Labour party.
		Joseph Benedict Chifley was born of Irish-Australian parentage at Bathurst, New South Wales, on Sept. 22, 1885.
		In 1936 Chifley was appointed member of the Royal Commission on Banking and Monetary Reform, and when World War II began, his recognized capacity, integrity, and experience made him a valuable director of labor regulation and supply in the Department of Munitions.
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	Ben Chifley
		After the war, Chifley introduced a number of social welfare reforms, and laid a strong basis for post-war reconstruction, but eventually lost the support of the electorate because people disagreed with too much government regulation of the economy.
		Joseph Benedict Chifley was Prime Minister from 13 July 1945 to 19 December 1949.
		Joseph Benedict Chifley - always known as Ben - was born in Bathurst, NSW, on 22 September 1885.
	www.nma.gov.au /schools/school_resources/resource_websites_and_interactives/primeministers/ben_chifley (1140 words)

	Hotel Kurrajong - Canberra
		Joseph Benedict Chifley was one of the Kurrajong's most well known residents.
		Chifley was elected to represent Macquarie in the Federal Parliament for the first time in 1928.
		Chifley did not attend in order to work in his room at the Hotel Kurrajong where he suffered the massive heart attack that would end his life.
	www.hotelkurrajong.com.au /chifley.html (367 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Chifley Joseph Benedict
		Chifley, Joseph Benedict (1885-1951), Australian politician, prime minister of Australia (1945-1949).
		The new Labor government under Joseph Benedict Chifley strengthened Australia’s relationship with the United States in the ANZUS...
		Bathurst (Australia), city, New South Wales, south-eastern Australia, situated west of the Blue Mountains on the Macquarie River, and at the end of the...
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	Joseph Benedict Chifley
		Chifley was the first son of an Irish Catholic flsmith of Bathurst, NSW, where he was born in 1885.
		Chifley was one of the casualties, losing his seat to a left-winger in 1931.
		Curtin's death, Chifley's defeat of Forde in the election for Prime Minister and the abrupt conclusion of the war by the atom bombs meant that Chifley could start to put these policies in place late in 1945.
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	Joseph Benedict Chifley -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		On John Curtin's death in July 1945, he was succeeded as prime minister by another ALP stalwart, Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley.
		Prior to his election as pope, Benedict led a distinguished career as a theologian and as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
		Following the death of John Paul II in 2005, Benedict XVI became the 265th bishop of Rome and the head of the Roman Catholic church.
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		At the age of 17 Chifley joined the New South Wales Railways and at 24 became the youngest first-class locomotive driver in the service.
		Chifley lost at the General Election, but was elected to the House of Representatives at his second attempt in the 1928 Federal poll.
		Mr Chifley was also a member of the Joint Committee of Public Accounts from 1929-31, Member of the Board of Inquiry into Hire-purchase and Cash Order Systems in 1941, Member of the Australian Advisory War Council during the absence overseas of the Rt Hon.
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	Ben Chifley
		Rt Hon Ben Chifley Joseph Benedict Chifley (September 22 1885 - June 13 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australia's most influential Prime Ministers.
		The High Court of Australia eventually found Chifley's legislation to be unconstitutional.
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	Chifley, Joseph Benedict (Ben) - Australian Trade Union Archives Biographical entry
		Born in Bathurst in 1885, Ben Chifley joined the New South Wales Railways in his teens, while still attending school.
		During the 1917 transport dispute, Chifley, a member of the Engine Drivers' union and later, Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, became known as a prominent strike leader, an act for which he was dismissed and then reinstated.
		Chifley was Prime Minister of Australia from 1945-1949.
	www.atua.org.au /biogs/ALE0981b.htm (216 words)

	National Archives of Australia - The Collection - Prime Ministers - Chifley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Chifley served as Minister for Defence (1931–32) in the government of James Scullin.
		Chifley was the Leader of the Opposition for two years after his term as Prime Minister.
		Chifley died of a heart attack 13 June 1951 in Canberra.
	www.naa.gov.au /The_collection/prime_ministers/chifley.html (1236 words)

	Abebooks Search Results - Chifley
		Instead he provided us with a book of memories of his friends, including prime minister Ben Chifley, poet AD Hope, politician Paul Hasluck, scientist Mac Ball and writer Cyril Pearl.The resulting collection is a marvellous series of pen portraits from Australia in the past century.
		On a political level, Ben Chifley is a Labor icon who vies with John Curtin for the top place in the party's pantheon of heroes.
		Chifley is a gripping and essential political biography from David Day, author of John Curtin: A Life and winner of the 2000 Queensland Premier's Prize for History.
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	National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 82 - Joseph Benedict Chifley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Bathurst (NSW) in 1885, Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley joined the state railways and in 1913 became a railway engine driver.
		Chifley lost his seat in Labor's devastating loss in 1931 and did not re-enter parliament until the general election of 1940.
		Following Curtin's death on 5 July 1945, Chifley was elected leader of the Australian Labor Party and became Prime Minister on 13 July 1945.
	www.naa.gov.au /publications/fact_sheets/FS82.html (658 words)

	Encyclopedia: Prime Minister of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Rt Hon Joseph Cook Sir Joseph Cook (7 December 1860 - 30 July 1947), Australian politician and sixth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Silverdale, a small mining town near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England.
		Rt Hon Joseph Lyons Joseph Aloysius Lyons (September 15, 1879 - April 7, 1939), Australian politician and tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants.
		Rt Hon James Scullin James Henry Scullin (September 18, 1876 - January 28, 1953), Australian politician and ninth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in the small town of Trawalla, in western Victoria, the son of a railway worker of Irish descent.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Prime-Minister-of-Australia (6823 words)

	The Parliament of Australia: A Bibliography: Prime_Ministers/Chifley
		"Chifley, Joseph B." In Dictionary of National Biography 1951-1960.
		"Chifley, The Army and the 1949 Coal Strike." Labour History 68 (May 1995): 80-97.
		"Chifley: The Keating of '45?" Sydney Morning Herald, 18 June 1988: 72-73.
	www.indiana.edu /~librcsd/bib/australia_parliament/Prime_Ministers/Chifley (443 words)

	Chifley framework
		Ben Chifley's reasons for purchasing the block are not known and it may or may not be significant that the Chifleys made no attempt by way of landscaping or fencing to incorporate the block into their existing house block.
		The exterior of the Chifley Cottage is a remarkably intact record of the changes made by the Chifleys during the period from 1914 to 1962.
		The interior of the Chifley Cottage is a remarkably intact record of the changes made by the Chifleys during the period from 1914 to 1962.
	golum.riv.csu.edu.au /~rmclachl/hst209/CHIFLE.html (14810 words)

	Joseph Benedict Chifley -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Among other accomplishments of his government were public-health and labour-arbitration bills, agricultural and industrial development, and the founding of the Australian National University in Canberra as a centre for postgraduate research.
		In 1948–49 Chifley altered Australia's traditional hostility toward Asian nations by siding with the Indonesians against the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).
		His moderate attitude toward the Australian Communist Party and his unsuccessful attempt to nationalize private banks led to his defeat in the elections of 1949.
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	Ben Chifley
		Chifley finally win his seat back in 1940, and the following year he became Treasurer (finance minister) in John Curtin's Labor government.
		There is an Australian hotel chain, a Sydney building called Chifley Tower, and two suburbs (in Canberra and Sydney), named after him.
		Many of his reforms also remain in place.
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	Roger Price - Member for Chifley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He was accounts manager in the commercial department at Telecom before winning the seat of Chifley.
		Chifley was named after Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley (1885-1951), Prime Minister of Australia (1945-1949).
		Chifley covers an area of approximately 110 sq km.
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		Elected 1940, 1943, 1946, 1949, 1951 Leader of the Opposition to 14 June 1951 Leader of the Australian Labor Party to 14 June 1951 Died 14 June 1951 (see By-elections) -------------------------------------------------------------------- Chifley died in Canberra Hospital after suffering a heart attack in his hotel room.
		His death came shortly after the election campaign, in which he had ignored medical advice and campaigned strenuously.
		He was the second ALP Leader in succession to die in office.
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	The Annual Chifley Memorial Lecture to be presented by Peter Garrett MP : Public Lecture : Events : The University of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This year, the Annual Chifley Memorial Lecture is to be presented by Peter Garrett MP.
		The lecture is presented by the Australian Fabian Society in association with the Media and Communications Program at The University of Melbourne and the Melbourne University ALP Club.
		This is the 51st annual lecture in memory of Joseph Benedict Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 - 1949 and leader of the Labor Party from 1945 to 1951.
	events.unimelb.edu.au /eventid_1649.html (186 words)

	Ben Chifley, Prime Minister Of Australia
		* Ben Chifley was born in Bathurst, 22nd of September in 1885.
		* The first Holden car was 'launched' by Chifley in 1948.
		* Chifley broke the national coal strike by sending in the army to work open cuts mines in 1949.
	www.brookvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au /PROJECTS/Prime_Ministers/Ben_Chifley.html (374 words)

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		Joseph Benedict Chifley (1885–1951) was Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 to 1949 and his government introduced the Bill which led to the establishment of the Australian National University in 1946.
		Chifley took a strong interest in the development of the University and played a role in attracting eminent Australian-born academics to return to Australia to staff the new University.
		He also saw clearly the need for generous expenditure on long-range research projects.
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