The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate Volume 2

Ann Millar, Harry Evans

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Melbourne University Pres
15 June 2004

Biography; Dictionaries of biography (Who's Who); Central government

This second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate covers the period from 1929 to 1962.

The second volume of The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate contains

individual articles on 103 male senators and one woman, the spirited Senator Agnes Robertson Robertson of Western Australia, and the three clerks who served them.

This book presents a very different Australia from that revealled in Volume 1 of the Biographical Dictionary (MUP, 2000). The vision of Australia as a fair and equitable society, cherished so confidently at the time of Federation, now has to be put into practice in the face of the Depression and the Second World War. We see senators grappling with an increasingly mechanised society, major industrial, economic and social problems and the growing complexities of public policy. Political parties, strongly influenced by economic conditions and rural politics, divide and re-group, and as the six states recognise more and more the extent of Commonwealth power, the Senate asserts its constitutional equality with the House of Representatives.

For the most part, these senators are now little-known but, at the time, they asserted a marked individuality, as the caricatures on the endpapers imply. At this period of history, party discipline was not such as to suppress individual character.

By: Ann Millar
Introduction by: Harry Evans
Imprint: Melbourne University Pres
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 1.645kg
ISBN: 9780522850901
ISBN 10: 0522850901
Pages: 600
Publication Date: 15 June 2004
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Harry Evans is Clerk of the Senate, editor of the seventh and subsequent editions of Odgers' Australian Senate Practice, and author of other works on constitutional and parliamentary matters. As well as writing the introduction to this volume, and to volume one of the series, he has taken a personal interest in the formation and development of the Biographical Dictionary. Ann Millar was involved in the infant beginnings of the Biographical Dictionary in the early 1990s, and has been editor and Director of the Biographical Dictionary Unit since the unit's establishment in 1997. She has written also on the role of women in the Federal Parliament.