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Billy Hughes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. William Morris 'Billy' Hughes est un homme politique australien. Il fut le septième premier ministre d'Australie, le député australien ayant eu la plus longue carrière parlementaire et une des figures les plus marquantes de l'histoire politique australienne. Pendant les 51 ans de sa carrière parlementaire, il changea cinq fois de parti , fut exclu de trois d'entre eux et fut le représentant de quatre circonscriptions dans deux états différents. William Morris Hughes est né à Pimlico, un quartier de Londres le 25 septembre 1862 de parents gallois dont il fut le fils unique. Son père parlait gallois et travaillait comme menuisier à la Chambre des Lords.

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Billy Hughes

Billy Hughes was one of the most forceful, divisive, and contradictory prime ministers in Australian history. Born in London poverty and remade through Australian labour politics, Hughes rose from migrant insecurity to become one of the fiercest voices of the working-class movement. He helped carry Labor from industrial grievance into national power, championing arbitration, Commonwealth authority, worker protection, and the idea that government could be used against entrenched privilege. Then came the First World War. As prime minister, Hughes became convinced that Australia had to provide more men for the front, even if that meant compulsory overseas service. Conscription became the issue that broke his political world. Labor resisted him. Unions opposed him. Irish Catholic and anti-war voices mobilised against him. Hughes took the question to the people, and Australians rejected conscription twice. But Hughes survived. He split from Labor, governed with conservative support, created a new Nationalist alignment, and remained prime minister through the war's final years. To Labor, he became the great betrayer. To supporters, he was the wartime leader who put nation above party. To Australia, he became something more difficult: a prime minister who exposed the young Commonwealth's deepest tensions over war, democracy, class, race, Empire, and national power. At Versailles, Hughes fought fiercely for Australian recognition, Pacific security, reparations, Dominion status, and the defence of White Australia. He helped make Australia harder to ignore on the world stage, but he did so while defending a racially exclusive vision of nationhood. This book examines Billy Hughes as Labor fighter, Labor breaker, wartime prime minister, imperial nationalist, defender of White Australia, political survivor, and one of the first great ghosts of the Lodge. He helped build Labor.He shattered Labor.He made Australia heard.And he left scars that never fully faded.

Bradfield By-election, 1952

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Bradfield on 20 December 1952. This was triggered by the death of Liberal Party MP and former Prime Minister Billy Hughes. The election was won by Liberal Party candidate Harry Turner on a severely reduced margin, but against an Independent candidate rather than one from the Labor Party, which did not field a candidate in the safe Liberal seat.

Harry Hughes (Baseball)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Harry J. Hughes (born c. 1912) was a minor league baseball player and manager, notable for leading two teams to their respective leagues' finals. He played from 1936 to 1943 and from 1946 to 1947. Statistical records are incomplete, however it is known that he hit at least 223 doubles, 41 triples and 52 home runs in his 10-year minor league career. It is also very likely that he hit at least .300 in his career. Hughes began his managerial career in 1939, skippering the Meridian Scrappers for part of the season, replacing Mel Simon and being replaced by Bill Hughes.

National Labor Party

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The National Labor Party was the name used by the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes for himself and his followers after he was expelled from the Australian Labor Party in November 1916 over his pro-conscription stance in relation to World War I. Hughes had taken over as leader of the Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia when anti-conscriptionist Andrew Fisher resigned. On 15 September 1916 the executive of the Political Labour League (the Labor Party organisation in New South Wales at the time) expelled Hughes from the Labor Party. When the Federal Parliamentary Labor caucus met on 14 November 1916, lengthy discussions ensued until Hughes walked out with 24 other Labor members and the remaining (43) members of Caucus then passed their motion of no confidence in the leadership, effectively expelling Hughes and the other members.

Alfred Hampson

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alfred John Hampson (1865 - 19 May 1924) was an Australian politician. Born in Bendigo, Victoria, Hampson received a primary education before becoming a eucalyptus and soap manufacturer. In 1911, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Bendigo East. He remained in that position until 1915, when he transferred to the Australian House of Representatives, winning a by-election for the seat of Bendigo. He remained in Parliament until 1917, when the Nationalist Prime Minister, Billy Hughes, contested the seat and defeated Hampson. Hampson died in 1924.