18 Young, p. 119.
19 ibid.
20 Fitzgerald, p. 144.
21 Kennedy, K, The Mungana Affair: State Mining and Political Corruption in the 1920s, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1978, p. 122.
22 Fitzgerald, p. 273.
23 Young, Foreword.
24 Hart, P, ‘JA Lyons: a Political Biography’, PhD thesis, Australian National University, Canberra, 1967, p. 67.
25 Clark, DL, ‘EG Theodore: His Economics and His Influence’, Economics, March 1975, p. 30.
26 Katter, B, An Incredible Race of People: a Passionate History of Australia, Murdoch Books Australia, Millers Point, NSW, 2012, p. 17.
27 DL Clark, p. 30.
28 Young, p. 118.
29 DL Clark, p. 301.
30 Bob Katter recounts a story told to him by Manning Clark in which a former clerk of the House said that Theodore’s speech was the best he had heard in fifty years of listening to House speeches.
31 Hawkins, ‘Ted Theodore’, p. 101.
32 Fitzgerald, p. 287.
33 Beazley, K, 1966 ‘Labor’s Unluckiest Leader’, Canberra Times, 23 February 1966.
34 Fitzgerald, p. 295.
35 Young, p. 138.
36 Fitzgerald, p. 384.
5 Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley
1 Day, D, Chifley, HarperCollins, Sydney, 2001, p. 24.
2 This union became the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen in 1921, which was amalgamated into the Rail, Tram and Bus Union in the 1990s.
3 Waterson, DB, ‘Chifley, Joseph Benedict (1885–1951)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, Canberra, 1993.
4 Their personal life was tender, but complicated. Elizabeth rarely came to Canberra, even when Chifley was prime minister. Chifley appears to have had two mistresses, sisters Phyllis and Nell Donnelly. Phyllis was his companion in Canberra and Nell in Bathurst. Elizabeth received companionship from Isabelle Clark, who moved into the Bathurst cottage with her while Ben was away.
5 Day, p. 253.
6 ibid., p. 257.
7 Waterson.
8 Hawkins, J, ‘Ben Chifley: the True Believer’, Economic Round-up, no. 3, 2011, p. 109.
9 Butlin, SJ, ‘The Banking Commission’s Report’, Australian Quarterly, vol. 9, 1937, p. 50.
10 Hawkins, p. 111.
11 Day, p. 382.
12 ibid.
13 DeMaria, W, ‘The Australian Wartime Budgets 1939–45: the New Fiscal Gluttony’, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, vol. 76, no. 4, April 1991, p. 282.
14 The Age, 13 February 1942.
15 DeMaria, p. 285.
16 Cornish, S, ‘The Keynesian Revolution in Australia: Fact or Fiction?’, Australian Economic History Review, vol. 33, no. 2, September 1993, p. 60.
17 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, vol. 128, 2 September 1942, p. 20.
18 Cornish, S, ‘Full Employment in Australia: the Genesis of a White Paper’, research paper in economic history, no. 1, Department of Economic History, Faculty of Economics, Australian National University, Canberra, 1981, p. 4.
19 Whitwell, p. 56.
20 Day, p. 410.
21 Whitwell, p. 56.
22 Day, p. 412.
23 ibid., p. 414.
24 Cornish, ‘The Keynesian Revolution in Australia’, p. 54.
25 Weller, P, Cabinet Government in Australia 1901–2006: Practice, Principles, Performance, University of NSW Press, Sydney, 2007, p. 80.
26 ibid., p. 80.
27 Day, p. 450.
28 Cornish, ‘The Keynesian Revolution in Australia’, p. 61.
29 Day, p. 460.
30 ibid., p. 457.
31 ibid., p. 477.
32 ibid., p. 480.
33 ibid., p. 489.
6 Sir Arthur William (Artie) Fadden
1 Fadden, A, They Called Me Artie: the Memoirs of Sir Arthur Fadden, Jacaranda, Milton, Qld, 1969, p. 68.
2 ibid., p. 32.
3 In a conversation with me, the eminent Queensland political historian Professor Ross Fitzgerald certainly agreed that it was possible, and indeed likely, that premier Forgan-Smith intervened to remove Fadden from the state political scene.
4 DeMaria, p. 5.
5 Fadden, p. 60.
6 ibid., p. 61.
7 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, vol. 167, 28 May 1941, p. 25.
8 Fadden, p. 60.
9 Day, p. 413.
10 Coleman, N, S Cornish and A Hagger, Giblin’s Platoon: the Trials and Triumph of the Economist in Australian Public Life, ANU Press, Canberra, 2006, p. 192.
11 Fadden, p. 87.
12 ibid., p. 117.
13 Whitwell, p. 105.
14 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, 26 September 1951, p. 53.
15 Artis, MJ, and RH Wallace, ‘Fiscal Policy in Post-War Australia’, paper presented to section G of ANZAAS, Melbourne, 1967, p. 426.
16 ibid., p. 422.
17 Daily Telegraph, Thursday, 27 September 1951.
18 Australian Financial Review, Thursday, 27 September 1952.
19 Schedvin, CB, In Reserve: Central Banking in Australia 1945–75, Allen and Unwin, Sydney, 1992, p. 180.
20 Daily Telegraph, Thursday, 27 September 1951.
21 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, vol. 209, 2 October 1951, p. 208.
22 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, 6 August 1952, p. 68.
23 Ellery, D, ‘I’ll Show You a Horror Budget’, The Canberra Times, 14 May 2013.
24 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, 5 August 1958, p. 10.
25 Schedvin, In Reserve, p. 156.
26 Goodhart, C, The Evolution of Central Banks, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988, p. 7.
27 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, 5 August 1958, p. 20.
28 Fadden, p. 80.
7 Dr James Ford (Jim) Cairns
1 Strangio, P, Keeper of the Faith: a Biography of Jim Cairns, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2002, p. 124.
2 McClelland, J, Stirring the Possum: a Political Autobiography, Penguin, Ringwood, Vic., 1989, p. 138.
3 Strangio, p. 301.
4 ibid., p. 8.
5 ibid., p. 27.
6 ibid., p. 29.
7 ibid., p. 41.
8 ibid., p. 53.
9 ibid., p. 96.
10 ibid., p. 97.
11 ibid., p. 123.
12 ibid., p. 147.
13 ibid., p. 165.
14 ibid., p. 168.
15 ibid., p. 200.
16 McMullin, p. 315.
17 Whitlam, EG, The Whitlam Government, 1972–75, Viking, Melbourne, 1986, p. 190.
18 This redistribution also created the new federal seat of Prospect, which I contested and won in 2004, succeeding the Labor MPs Dr Dick Klugman and the Hon. Janice Crosio.
19 Strangio, p. 232.
20 ibid., p. 276.
21 ibid., p. 279.
22 ibid., p. 281.
23 Whitlam, p. 211.
24 Gruen, F, ‘What Went Wrong? Some Personal Reflections on Economic Policy under Labor’, Australian Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4, 1976, pp. 15–32.
25 Australia, House of Representatives, Debates, 15 August 1972, p. 40.
26 Crowley, F, Tough Times: Australia in the 1970s, William Heinemann, Melbourne, 1986, p. 25.
27 ibid., p. 94.
28 ibid., p. 104.
29 This effective revaluation was brought about by the decision not to match the devaluation of the US dollar enacted at that time.
30 Ormonde, P, A Foolish Passionate Man: a Biography
