The Barcaldine strike leaders The 1891 Shearers' Strike, centred around Barcaldine in Queensland, during the depression of the 1890s, was in respon to the pastoralists' reaction to falling wool prices of intending to reduce the shearers' wages. During the unrest, the colonial administration ordered the arrest of the shearers' leaders on charges of dition and conspiracy. The eventual failure of the strike broke worker militancy战斗性 and led to the formation of a labour political movement to reprent the interests of working people. | |
Arthur Calwell Born 28 August 1896, West Melbourne, Victoria Died 8 July 1973 淫悦假期Arthur Calwell was Australia's first Minister for Immigration (1945 to 1949), and later became the leader of the Australian Labor Party (1960 to 1967). He was the chief architect of Australia's post-war immigration scheme, and popularid the slogan "populate or perish". Also well-known for his much-misquoted comment "Two Wongs don't make a White". His immigration program co-incided with a period when Australian industry was growing rapidly and suffering from shortages of skilled and mi-skilled labour. Although he was an advocate for the White Australia Policy, it is interesting to note that Calwell spoke Chine and had a great respect for Asian cultures. 交通安全管理制度See: Arthur Calwell /a/arthur-calwell.html See: Arthur Calwell /a/ar/arthur_calwell.html | |
Caroline Chisholm 财务机构Born 1808, England Died 1877 Caroline Chisholm arrived in Australia in 1838 and t up a home for other women who had come to live here. She worked to improve life on the ships bringing people to Australia to start a new life and started a loans plan to bring poor children and families to Australia. She arranged free trips so that the families of convicts who were transported to Australia could come to join them. | |
关于梦的成语Captain Cook Born 27 October 1728, Marton, Yorkshire, England 诚信应考Died 14 February 1779, clubbed and stabbed to death by the not-so-friendly natives in Hawaii James Cook was appointed in 1768 to command HM Bark Endeavour, to carry scientists to the South Seas on obrve the transit of Venus across the sun (due to occur in 1769), and to explore the South Pacific for the Great South Land that was believed to exist (referred to as New Holland, as Dutch explorers had claimed to have sighted the west and north coasts). After the scientists' Venus obrvations were completed, Cook charted the New Zealand coastline, and then sailed westward to find the east coast of New Holland (Australia). Land was sighted on 20 April 1770 at what was named Point Hicks, then he sailed north, landing at Botany Bay, t sail again, and then landed on Posssion Island on 22 August 1770 where he formally claimed the whole east coast for Britain, naming it New South Wales. | |
John Curtin Born 1885, Creswick, Victoria Died 5 July 1945, Canberra, ACT 刚刚好歌曲Australia's wartime Prime Minister. Was elected cretary of the Timber-Worker's Union in Victoria in 1911. In 1916, when Billy Hughes was trying to introduce conscription, Curtin became cretary of the Victorian Anti-Conscription Campaign Committee and was ntenced to three months' jail for his speeches in opposition to conscription; although, after an appeal, he was relead having rved only three days of his ntence. Curtin entered Federal Parliament as the Member for Fremantle in 1928; and formed a Labor Government in 1941 that governed Australia through the rest of the Second World War. Curtin argued with Churchill for the nding of Australia's forces back to New Guinea to fight off successfully the Japane thrust (until the United States could mobili for the drive back to Japan), and he battled (unsuccessfully) with both Churchill and Roovelt to have the Pacific war against the Japane given the same priority as the European war against the Germans. While his Government reorganid the war effort and provided Australia with its own aircraft, guns, tanks, munitions and soldiers, they also arranged widows' pensions, unemployment benefits, as well as planning an Australian Government airline and a system of free hospitals. Curtin did not live to e the end of the war or to e his post-war reconstruction policies come to fulfilment, as he died in July 1945. Curtin is regarded as one of the greatest Australian Prime Ministers. | |
Daniel Deniehy Born 16th August 1828, Sydney, NSW Died 22nd October 1865, Bathurst, NSW Daniel Henry Deniehy was elected to the NSW Legislative Asmbly in 1857 and 1860, with his main aim to open up public lands to the working class. He helped form the New South Wales Electoral Reform League, in order to push for greater democracy. He also founded his own newspaper in 1859, the Southern Cross, to review public affairs, foster national ntiment, and work towards the federation of the colonies. See: Daniel Deniehy: Republican Patriot au/~natinfo/1deniehy.htm | |
培养的意思C.J. Dennis Born 7 September 1876, Auburn, South Australia Died 22 June 1938, Melbourne C.J. Dennis, poet and journalist, was popular in Australia for his down-to-earth works, written in the vernacular of the times. In 1913 Dennis published a volume titled Backblock ballads and other vers, but it was not a financial success. Immediate success was achieved with The Songs of a ntimental bloke, a love story written in slang, which was published in October 1915; three editions were required in 1915, nine in 1916, and by 1976 fifty-ven editions had been published in Australia, England, Canada, and the USA. See: Perry Middlemiss' site re. C.J. Dennis www.middlemiss/lit/authors/denniscj眼妆图片 | |
Mary Gilmore Born 1864 (Mary Cameron), Cotta Walla (near Goulburn), New South Wales Died 1962 Mary Gilmore was a teacher and writer. She was the editor of the women’s pages of the Australian Workernewspaper for 23 years. She joined William Lane's "New Australia" utopian experiment ttlement in Paraguay, and married William Gilmore there in 1897 (they both returned to Australia in 1902). A well-known Australian poet, her most popular piece is "No Foe Shall Gather Our Harvest". | |
Ned Kelly Birth date unknown, commonly believed to be between November 1854 and January 1855, at Beveridge (25 miles north of Melbourne), Victoria Died on the 11th November 1880, hung at Melbourne Gaol, Victoria Ned Kelly is Australia's most famous bushranger. Said to have been forced into bushranging by the police, who were looking to shoot him, he and his gang robbed banks rather than robbing common folk. The Kelly gang had many active supporters and a wide following, and he made plans for the establishing a Republic of North Eastern. Ned was captured at Glenrowan, and was tried at Melbourne, where he was ntenced to death by hanging. See: Ned Kelly: Australian Iron Outlaw incl. a history of the Kelly Gang /html/history_01.html | |
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