Essays Tagged: "Bill Shorten"

Was there really a "Communist threat" to Australia, or was Australian foreign policy responding only to a perceived threat?

arly half a century. It drove the nation to actions that today would be inconceivable - proposing a Bill to give the Australian Government the power to dissolve the Communist Party and persecute Commu ... ainst (or as a reaction to) the threat of communism, primarily the 1950 Communist Party Dissolution Bill introduced to Federal Parliament (and the controversial High Court decision and later referendu ...

(7 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > Australian History