Essays Tagged: "Ben Chifley"

Write a memoir as a migrant coming to Australia. Describe the varying experiences you had and the hardships you faced.

Australian friends told me that at the launch of the Snowy project in 1949, the then Prime Minister Ben Chifley presented it as a national milestone to bringing drought relief into inland Australia an ...

(4 pages) 20 0 0.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Australia and Anti-Communism Description: discussion about how anti-communism in Australia influenced Australian politics and foreign policy.

1940s, having a huge influence on the trade unions�. In 1949, the Labour Government, lead by Ben Chifley, had to use armed troops to break an extended coalmine strike, organised by the CPAʏ ...

(7 pages) 21 1 5.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Australian Immigration Since 1945

ralia by the Japanese resulted in a complete rethink of ideal population numbers. As Prime Minister Ben Chifley said, 'a powerful enemy looked hungrily toward Australia...we must populate Australia as ...

(8 pages) 33 0 5.0 Feb/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History

Describe the extent in which Ben Chifley Achieved His Light on the Hill.

Joseph Benedict Chifley born September 22, 1885, Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia ... worth fighting for", a quote from the ‘light on the hill’ speech given by Prime Minister Ben Chifley on 12th June 1949 to describe the objectives of the labor government. The Labor party be ... Social Services Act’ of 1946 and which provided unemployment, maternity, sickness and hospital benefits as well as widows pensions, housing commission and medical and dental services.Chifley beli ...

(3 pages) 2783 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History