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So monstrous a travesty : Chris Watson and the world's first national labour government

door Ross McMullin

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A century ago, Australia led the world in progressive social initiatives. Admiring visitors crossed the globe to inspect this advanced social laboratory. Chris Watson's 1904 ministry, the culmination of Australian Labor's astonishingly rapid rise, was the first national Labor government in the world. This book is the story of that pioneering government. Its accomplished prime minister, little known today, led a cabinet that included two future prime ministers, together with a practically blind ex-labourer and a defence minister who feuded with the British commander-in-chief of Australia's defence forces. Watson's cabinet also included the only MP to serve in a Labor ministry without being a member of the Labor Party, and the only MP to be expelled from Australia's federal parliament. This book explains how the government came to office, assesses its record and achievements, analyses its defeat, and illuminates its place in Australian history.… (meer)

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Australian history is littered with events that Australians barely remember but which had great repercussions around the world. This includes the rich labour history of Australia, including the creation of the eight hour day, the Sunshine Harvester Case, which legally introduced minimum wages, and the first elected national labour government in the world ("the dawn of government by the common man" as it has been called).

Chris Watson (or John Watson as I have also seen him referred as) was the head of the first elected national labour government in the world, way back in 1904, and "So Monstrous a Travesty" covers the Chilean-born Watson's historic role, what his Government did in their short time in power (not a great deal but not wholly their fault), their fall and the messy aftermath where Watson and other ALP leading lights like Billy Hughes leaving the ALP during WWI over the issue of conscription. Of course, it wouldn't be the Australian Labor Party without recriminations and lifelong hatred between former friends. (

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A century ago, Australia led the world in progressive social initiatives. Admiring visitors crossed the globe to inspect this advanced social laboratory. Chris Watson's 1904 ministry, the culmination of Australian Labor's astonishingly rapid rise, was the first national Labor government in the world. This book is the story of that pioneering government. Its accomplished prime minister, little known today, led a cabinet that included two future prime ministers, together with a practically blind ex-labourer and a defence minister who feuded with the British commander-in-chief of Australia's defence forces. Watson's cabinet also included the only MP to serve in a Labor ministry without being a member of the Labor Party, and the only MP to be expelled from Australia's federal parliament. This book explains how the government came to office, assesses its record and achievements, analyses its defeat, and illuminates its place in Australian history.

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