The National Museum of Australia acknowledges First Australians and recognises their continuous connection to country, community and culture. Prime Minister from 10 March to 5 December Sir William McMahon. McMahon married Sonia Hopkins in They had three children. Entry to federal politics. Pathway to leadership. Prime Minister Billy McMahon. Later political life. In our collection. He is being followed by a man? In McMahon became labour and national service minister; then, after becoming deputy leader following the departure of Menzies, he snared Treasury.
But he was adroit in his use of journalists to advance his interests and had a reputation as a hard-working minister who would always master his brief. He retained the deputy leadership, and the Treasury, when Gorton succeeded Holt. But after he and several others unsuccessfully challenged Gorton following the election, he was moved to external affairs which he had renamed as foreign affairs.
His only rival in the leadership ballot was the young, inexperienced Billy Snedden. It was no real contest. Having achieved his ultimate political ambition, what then for McMahon? He had just under two years to demonstrate why the Coalition government should have its twenty-three-year reign extended for another three years, to show it was united and had the policies required to advance the national interest, and to prove that he, rather than Gough Whitlam, was the best man to be prime minister.
Unlike Whitlam, McMahon had no agenda. He turned to the party machine to establish committees to make policy recommendations. It all ended badly, and Whitlam became prime minister in December It is remarkable that McMahon survived and thrived for as long as he did.
Menzies could have put an end to his career in , when McMahon admitted, in writing, to leaking from cabinet. But he did not act. And McMahon was not cured. He was forever leaking and lying to advance his own interests, yet he survived and personally prospered, to the regret of most of his colleagues. Completing a biography of this scope is an enormous undertaking, and Patrick Mullins does it with considerable skill. And those lies. David Solomon is a retired journalist.
McMahon removed Gorton as Minister for Defence in August , after Gorton had written a series of articles for The Australian newspaper that he deemed to be a breach of Cabinet solidarity. In December Doug Anthony, the Country Party leader, threatened to leave the Coalition over the issue of devaluing the Australian dollar in line with the US dollar. Two weeks before the election McMahon gave a radio interview where he appeared to question the responsiveness of his ministry.
McMahon was a strong champion for open economies and free markets and argued that Australian economists would now have access to one of the most prestigious international economic research organisations. The OECD review was welcomed by many of the participants in the economic debate because it offered expert advice in addition to that presented by Treasury and the Reserve Bank. In the end the report was not released until after the election.
It was the focus of the new Woden Town Centre, the first town centre to be built beyond inner Canberra. This statement was used in Parliament by the Opposition Leader, Gough Whitlam to bolster his argument about government delay in approving electoral redistributions. The Canberra Times, From sheep country to shopping mall, 14 September, I see the Labor Party has got a haberdasher slogan called - 'It's Time.
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Party Liberal. Milestones Changes to access for Cabinet records A high level of research interest in the Second World War led to the announcement that the public release of records for the war period would be increased, including Cabinet records which would now be available after a period of 30 years. Aboriginal Tent Embassy The Aboriginal Tent Embassy was established on Australia Day in on the lawns outside of Parliament House to protest the government decision to reject a proposal for Aboriginal land rights.
Yirrkala people receive mining royalties On 26 January it is announced that the Yirrkala people from the Gove region in the Northern Territory will be able to keep a small royalty from bauxite and aluminium mining on their country. Record 9 Nov Display as: List Grid. Article 27 Apr Oral History 22 Jun
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