Minute book of the Nationalist Party of Australia, 1918-1968 (bulk 1918-1920) [manuscript]. [1918-1968]

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Minute book of the Nationalist Party of Australia, 1918-1968 (bulk 1918-1920) [manuscript]. [1918-1968]

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MS Acc10.052 comprises a minute book containing minutes from Nationalist Party meetings held between 1918 and 1920, and minutes of meeting of ministerial party, 25 September 1919. Significant people mentioned include William Morris Hughes, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, Littleton Groom, William Alexander Watt, William Guthrie Spence and George Foster Pearce. Tipped into the minute book are a telegram to John Thompson, Government Whip, from Senator Thomas Bakhap, of 23 June 1919; a letter to John Thompson of 19 June 1919 from Henry Robert Maguire Pigott, MHR; a note on Parliament of the Commonwealth notepaper regarding discussion of the pension of the Chief Justice; and a clipping from the Sydney morning herald about political parties, of 29 October 1968. The minute book was held in the care of the Power family (1 folder).

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The National Party was formed in 1917 by Hughes from the pro conscription elements in the Labor Party and the Liberal Party led by Sir Joseph Cook. It was replaced as the main anti-labor Party in 1931 by the United Australia Party. From the description of Handbill [manuscript]. 1919. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225840981 The Nationalist Party of Australia was the result of a merger of the National Labor Party and the Commonwealth Liberal Party in January 1917 ...