True Believers: The story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party
Allen & Unwin, $35 pb, 328 pp
Australian History
True Believers: The story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party edited by John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre
by Ross Fitzgerald •
The intriguing story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party began the day before the first Federal Parliament convened in Melbourne on 9 May 1901. At 11 a.m. on 8 May 1901, Labor’s twenty-two federal parliamentarians met in a stuffy basement room in Victoria’s Parliament House. This historic first Federal Caucus was chaired by Queensland Senator Anderson Dawson who from 1 to7 December 1899, as premier of Queensland, had led the first Labor government in the world.
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