Rex Connor - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party
BARTON ACT 2600 Political parties Elections The Australian Labor Party or ALP is Australia's oldest political party. It is so-named becau...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Policy
Like other social democratic parties, Labor tends to believe that government is generally a positive force in the community and that it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Kerr: Encyclopedia Ii - John Kerr - The Dismissal
Kerr had another meeting with Fraser (with Whitlam's approval) on 6 November. At this meeting Fraser increased the pressure on Kerr, advi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - Prime Minister
Custom dictated that Whitlam should have waited until the process of vote counting was complete, and then called a Caucus meeting to elec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - Early Days
Jim Cairns was born in Carlton, then a working-class suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, the son of a clerk. He grew up on a dairy farm north ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Policy
Like other social democratic parties, Labor tends to believe that government is generally a positive force in the community and that it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - Cairns In Government
In 1972, Whitlam led the Labor Party into government for the first time in 23 years, and Cairns became Minister for Overseas Trade and Mi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - The Loans Affair
In an attempt to raise funds for a massive Keynesian pump-priming exercise, Cairns and another senior minister, Rex Connor, tried to borr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - Leading Leftist
In Canberra, Cairns became a leader of the left. He was a highly effective debater and was soon feared and disliked by ministers in the L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - Aftermath
Cairns's Labor colleagues found his conduct in the Loans and Morosi affairs intolerable, and his political reputation was destroyed. In 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Kerr: Encyclopedia Ii - John Kerr - The 1975 Crisis
In October 1975 the Liberals used their Senate majority to defer voting on the supply bills until Whitlam agreed to hold an election for ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Kerr: Encyclopedia Ii - John Kerr - Kerr As Governor-general
The Whitlam Government had won a second term in May 1974, but failed to win control of the Senate, where the balance of power was held by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Kerr: Encyclopedia Ii - John Kerr - Kerr's Career
Kerr was born in Balmain, a working-class suburb of Sydney, where his father was a boiler-maker. He entered the prestige selective high s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - Honours
Whitlam was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1962 and a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1978. Whitlam is a Fellow of the Australian Ac...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jim Cairns: Encyclopedia Ii - Jim Cairns - Cairns And Morosi
By this time Cairns's relationship with Morosi had become public, although the media at that time was still sufficiently discreet for its...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - The Dismissal
The Opposition would not have been able to follow this course if the Senate elected in 1974 had remained intact. Although one of the two ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Structure
The Australian Labor Party is a democratic and federal party, which consists of both individual members and affiliated trade unions, who ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Past Alp State Premiers And Territory Chief Ministers
. New South Wales Bob Carr (1995–2005) Barrie Unsworth (1986–88) Neville Wran (1976–86) Jack Renshaw (1964–65) Robert Heffron (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - History
No exact date can be given for the founding of the Australian Labor Party, originating as it did from the various colonial labour movemen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Structure
The Australian Labor Party is a democratic and federal party, which consists of both individual members and affiliated trade unions, who ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - History
No exact date can be given for the founding of the Australian Labor Party, originating as it did from the various colonial labour movemen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Australian Labor Party: Encyclopedia Ii - Australian Labor Party - Past Alp State Premiers And Territory Chief Ministers
. New South Wales Bob Carr (1995–2005) Barrie Unsworth (1986–88) Neville Wran (1976–86) Jack Renshaw (1964–65) Robert Heffron (1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - The Whitlam Government Assessed
During its three years in power, the Whitlam government was responsible for a long list of legislative reforms, most of which still stand...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - Opposition Leader
Whitlam swiftly made his mark on the ALP, bringing his campaign for internal reform to fruition, and overhauling or discarding a series o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - Early Career
Whitlam's impetus to become involved in politics was the Chifley government's post-war referendum to gain increased powers for the federa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gough Whitlam: Encyclopedia Ii - Gough Whitlam - Out Of Office
Whitlam stayed on to fight the 1977 election, but there was never much chance that the Australian electorate would have him back. Labor w...   » Read the article