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	John Gorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the subsequent leadership struggle Gorton was championed by Army Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Party Whip Dudley Irwin, and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, to become Liberal leader and Prime Minister.
		Gorton proved to be a surprisingly poor media performer and public speaker, and was portrayed by the media as a foolish and incompetent administrator.
		Gorton called a Liberal Party meeting, and when a motion of confidence in his leadership was tied, he resigned, and McMahon was then elected leader and thus Prime Minister.
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	John Gorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 – May 19 2002), Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at a prestigious private school and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
		In the subsequent leadership struggle Gorton was championed by Army Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Party Whip, and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, to become Liberal leader and Prime Minister.
		After the election, Gorton was challenged for the Liberal leadership by, but so long as McEwen's veto on McMahon remained in place, he was fairly safe.
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	Encyclopedia: John Gorton
		The City of Melbournes coat of arms Melbourne is the capital and largest city of the state of Victoria, and the second largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of 3,600,650 in the Melbourne metropolitan area (June 2004) and 61,670 in the City of...
		The First Gorton Ministry was the forty-fifth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 10th January 1968 to 12th November 1969.
		The Second Gorton Ministry was the forty-sixth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 12th November 1969 to 10th March 1971.
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	Samuel Gorton
		Samuel was born and raised in the village of Gorton, south-east Lancashire.
		Regular attenders at the Gorton religious gatherings were a maid in the household of the serving minister John Reynor, and the wife of the previous incumbent, Ralph Smith, who was also the Gortons' landlord.
		In terms of religion, he denied the necessity of a professional ministry - insisting that each man and woman was his or her own priest- and rejected literal interpretations of Old Testament stories in favour of interpretation for the age, and greater emphasis on the actual teachings of Christ - The Word.
	www.famousamericans.net /samuelgorton (3782 words)

	The Right Honourable Sir John Gorton GCMG, AC, CH [May 22, 2002]
		Gorton candidly admits to Hancock to "drinking too much and to having 'two or three' extramarital relationships, at least one of which was conducted during his prime ministership".
		Gorton was no less forgiving of Malcolm Fraser who he felt "stabbed" him in the back in the events that ended Gorton's prime ministership in March, 1971 - exactly 31 years ago last Sunday.
		John Gorton was unconventional and unpredictable, and relationships with the media deteriorated considerably during the term of his prime ministership.
	www.australianpolitics.com /news/2002/05/02-05-22a.shtml (3806 words)

	Book Encyclopedia - Web Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		All members of the ministry are also members of the Executive Council, a body which is (in theory, though rarely in practice) chaired by the Governor-General and which meets solely to endorse and give legal force to decisions already made by the Cabinet.
		Until 1956 all members of the ministry were members of the Cabinet.
		The growth of the ministry in the 1940s and 1950s made this increasingly impractical, and in 1956 Robert Menzies created a two-tier ministry, with only senior ministers holding Cabinet rank.
	www.bookencyclopedia.com /index.php?title=Australian_Commonwealth_ministries (996 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript of Rice's 9/11 commission statement - Apr 8, 2004
		GORTON: Now, in retrospect, and given the knowledge that you had, you and the administration simply believed that you had more time to meet this challenge of al Qaeda than was in fact the case.
		GORTON: One subject that certainly any administration in your place would not like to bring up but I want to bring up in any event is, the fact is that we've now gone two and a half years and we have not had another incident in the United States even remotely comparable to 9/11.
		GORTON: I think, in one sense, there are three ways in which one can deal with a threat like this, and I would like your views on how well you think we've done in each of them and maybe even their relative importance.
	www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/08/rice.transcript (17181 words)

	John Gorton biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 - May 19 2002), Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at a prestigious private school and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
		In 1949, Gorton entered Parliament as a Liberal Senator, and served in various positions under Robert Menzies and Harold Holt, including Minister for the Navy, Minister for Education and Minister for Public Works.
		He became the first Senator to be Prime Minister, but he immediately resigned from the Senate and was elected to the House of Representatives at the by-election caused by Holt's death in his electorate of Higgins.
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	JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Menzies, Holt, Gorton
		Gorton was the second child of John Rose Gorton and Alice Sinn.
		Gorton came into severe conflict with the Premiers, in particular the Liberal Premiers of Victoria and New South Wales, Henry Bolte and Robin Askin, and the Country Party Premier of Queensland, Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, over his ‘centralising’ ambitions.
		Gorton then stood unsuccessfully as an independent Senate candidate for the Australian Capital Territory at the general election on 13 December 1975.
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		Gorton was determined not to sign the NPT, and he had some powerful allies such as Baxter.
		Gorton's position as leader of the Liberal Party was under intense pressure and he resigned in March 1971.
		Gorton was sworn in as Britain was withdrawing from Asia.
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	cars - John Gorton
		In the subsequent leadership struggle Gorton was championed by Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser and Party Whip Dudley Irwin) and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, former External Affairs minister Paul Hasluck,to become Liberal leader and Prime Minister.
		He became the first Senator in Australian parliamentary history to be Prime Minister, but in accordance with Westminster tradition he was obliged to immediately resign from the Senate and contest a seat in the House of Representatives at the by-election (necessitated by Holt's death) in the electorate of Higgins.
		With the Liberal Party falling further behind Labor in the polls, a challenge was launched in March, with the resignation of Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser, who attacked Gorton on the floor of Parliament in his resignation speech, stating that Gorton was "not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister."
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	Day One Transcript: 9/11 Commission Hearing (washingtonpost.com)
		The second path, proposed by counterterrorism officials in the NSC staff and the CIA, was for the United States to take sides in the Afghan civil war and begin funneling secret military aide to the Taliban's foe, the Northern Alliance.
		But to get back to the second part of my question, when you formulate a diplomatic policy, if you will, which says we're going to use force against you and we're going to use our military if you don't resolve this in a diplomatic sense.
		GORTON: And pre-9/11, the only military response to any al Qaeda attack, whether successful or one of the many that you said was frustrated during your period of time -- the only military response was the response in the immediate aftermath of the embassy bombing.
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		Gorton was part of the parish of Manchester which formed part of the Salford Hundred.
		At a trial on the death of the butcher, it was brought in as accidental death being done from a patriotic standpoint.
		The Rushcart festival was revived in Gorton by the Gorton Morris Men during 1980 and appreciated by the residents.
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	Media releases archive - Ministry for Culture and Heritage
		The Ministry for Culture and Heritage is seeking expressions of interest from organisations interested in applying for the licence for non-commercial UHF Television Channel 40 in Wellington.
		The Ministry for Culture and Heritage would like to talk to former servicemen and women who served in the Pacific and in uniform on the Home Front as part of an ongoing project to record the experiences of those who took part in the Second World War.
		Ministry for Culture and Heritage Chief Executive Martin Matthews today responded to the High Court decision that the resource consent issued by the Wellington City Council for the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior project was given in error.
	www.mch.govt.nz /oldnews.html (7158 words)

	A Welch Succession of Primitive Baptists
		Second, there is no evidence that Blunt or Blacklock were ordained ministers with a succession back to Christ at the time of the baptismal service.
		Elder Thomas' ministry at both churches and membership in the Midland Association together with his continued frequent visitations to Olchon Church testify to the fact that Olchon held general agreement to the doctrinal principles of the Midland Confession of Faith.
		Therefore, it may be concluded that the content of the 1655 Midland Confession satisfied the strict creed of faith and order to which the Olchon Church continuously held from her ancient origin to the establishment of fellowship with the brethren of Midland Association in 1658 and beyond.
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	John Gorton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sir John Grey Gorton (September 9 1911 – May 19 2002), Australian politician and the 19th Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia)Victoria, the son of an orchardist from Kerang, and educated at a prestigious private school and at Oxford University, where he completed an MA.
		In 1949, Gorton entered Parliament as a Liberal Party of AustraliaLiberal Senator, and served in various positions under Robert MenziesRobert Menzies and Harold HoltHarold Holt/, including Minister for the Navy, Minister for Education and Minister for Public Works.
		At the 1969 elections, Gorton lost most of the massive majority in the House of Representatives he had inherited from Harold HoltHolt/.
	www.infothis.com /find/John_Gorton (1030 words)

	Whitlam Speeches - 1969 Election Policy Speech [October 1, 1969] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Just as Mr Justice Eggleston was asked to report on university salaries and Mr Justice Sweeney to report on salaries in colleges of advanced eduction, so we shall periodically invite an industrial judge to report on increases in salaries required to recruit and retain qualified teachers in sufficient numbers in both government and non-government schools.
		Twenty years of Liberal Budgets and Liberal "compassion" have reduced the value of the single age pension in terms of average weekly earnings from 24% to 21%, of the married pension from 48% to 38% and of the general rate repatriation pension from 27% to 17%.
		Our aim in relation to those three countries may be summed up in a single sentence: it is to assist them to build up their economies, their societies and their defences so that they can stand on their own feet.
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	JustOneMinute
		The second is what would have happened if there had been a full, statewide manual recount - as there should have been.
		GORTON: It has nothing and, as of today, it tells us that the civilian female whom Col Shaffer has as a source does not corroborate what he has to say.
		Now, IF Gorton is correct and she has disavowed Shaffer's story, that ought to be the lead.
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	John Grey Gorton
		Critics blamed his wilfully independent spirit for his ultimate downfall, but Gorton was his own man and he went his own way.
		Born in 1911, Gorton was the son of a wealthy Englishman.
		Gorton continued to criticise the party from within, but did not stand in the 1972 elections.
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	The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States
		In a letter to John Adams - the second president of the United States and a Unitarian (i.e.
		Second President of the United States and signer of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams was a Unitarian (i.e.
		The artificial structures they have built on the the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolt those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there." [Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mrs.
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	Intelcon National Intelligence Conference and Exposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gorton began his political career in 1958 as a Washington state representative; he went on to serve as State House majority leader.
		Gorton also served on the president's consumer Advisory Council (1975-77) and on the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission (1969-1981).
		Her second book, "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror" (Regnery 2004), offers a defense of the most reviled wartime policies in our history.
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	Prime Minister - Sir William McMahon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Among the changes in the new ministry sworn in on 11 January 1956, was a division for the first time into 18 Cabinet and nine ‘outer ministry’ portfolios.
		In the new Gorton–McEwen ministry McMahon succeeded Hasluck as Minister for External Affairs, renamed Foreign Affairs on 6 November 1970.
		The third Gorton ministry was sworn in on 12 November 1969.
	www.gavmag.com /australia/pm_mcmahon.htm (2194 words)

	EUROPA - Regional Policy Inforegio
		In the second part of the speech the Commissioner elaborated on the Community Strategic Guidelines for Cohesion and on closer cooperation planned between DG REGIO and the European Investment Bank.
		Payment requests by Member States exceeded for a second time in a row budgetary resources, which made an additional amount of EUR 4 billion necessary to be agreed upon by the Council and the European Parliament.
		The second study focuses on national policies – examining the way and the extent to which, they contribute to reducing economic and social disparities and enhancing cohesion.
	europa.eu.int /comm/regional_policy/newsroom/index_en.htm (13315 words)

	June 2004, Part 3 - Jim Miller on Politics
		Second, the Seattle Times, like many newspapers, has a pattern of endorsements that I find deceptive.
		It was the Nazi propaganda ministry on amphetamines.
		The second World war is vaguer still in its opening; the Russians date it from 22 June 1941, the Chinese from November 1937, the Abyssinians [or Ethiopians, as we now would say], I suppose, from October 1935, and the Americans from 7 December 1941.
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	Kingdom Light Ministry Network
		There are many anointed ministries laboring diligently in the service of our King.
		We are pleased to present here, for your consideration, the names and addresses of those ministries whose works we are acquainted with.
		All “total reconciliation” ministries* are welcome to apply for a FREE listing here.
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	William Wedgwood Benn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He had to wait until 18th February 1937, before returning to Parliament when he won a by-election at Gorton, Manchester.
		Benn was deeply respected in the Labour Party and this is reflected in the votes he received when he stood for the party executive.
		Although nearly sixty-three at the outbreak of the Second World War, Benn enlisted in the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUbenn.htm (2682 words)

	Second Holt Ministry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		The Second Holt Ministry was the forty-third Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 14 December 1966 to 19 December 1967.
		Senator Hon John Gorton: Minister for Works (to 28 February 1967).
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	Second Sharing - July 27, 2005
		The house is one of the projects of the West Virginia Ministry Advocacy and Workcamps, Inc (known as "MA") which is supported, in part, by the Presbytery of West Virginia.
		A family for all of Second Church meals is considered to be the parent(s) and his/her children under 12.
		This is a powerful and effective in-home benefit and ministry to the members of our area.
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