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Another Country Party leader to become PM was Earle Page whose government only lasted 19 days in 1939 until the UAP elected Menzies. Page refused to serve under Menzies as he charged that 'Pig Iron' Bob was a coward for failing to enlist during WWI. Page quickly lost the Country Party leadership to Archie Cameron who formed a coalition with Menzies UAP in 1940. War with Japan was looming, and Menzies appeasement policies were unpopular, the Menzies government collapsed and was replaced by a new government with Country Party leader Arthur Fadden as PM, but the Fadden government only lasted about a month having failed to gain parliamentary confidence, and it was in turn replaced by the minority Labor government of John Curtin in 1941.

p/s BTW, Earle Page's middle name was Christmas!

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Peter Dutton – Political Stirrer or Miracle-man ?

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We have just sown deep shame and disappointment among our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who overwhelmingly voted yes in the referendum.

Their “statement from the heart” has been brutally rebuffed and rejected by our massive NO vote.

As nature has it : “we reap what we sow”. Good decisions lead to good consequences and bad decisions lead to bad consequences.

We’ll just have to wait now and see how things work out. Hopefully, there will be good consequences.

You never know, miracles do happen !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z26BvHOD_sg&t=39s&ab_channel=MarioNicolaMisino

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Kudos ttbn, Indyvidual, Bezza, mhaze, Josephus, Armchair Critc. Peter Dutton is looking more presidential and getting daily airtime. Kudos to Peter Dutton on stepping up- there is a learning process- his experience in the police force and in business will be useful as PM.

In a rapid about fact the Noalition leader Dud Dutton quickly walked away from his promise of a second referendum question giving Aboriginal and Torres Strait people recognition in the old white mans constitution. You can judge the mans commitment to principles and his sincerity of purpose when he simply looks at the political best option that he sees will advantage him.

Albo made a terrible political blunder, you never ask a question in politics unless you know the answer. The question should have been a simple la-di-da, feel good, question of recognition and it would have been an overwhelming 'Yes'. Everyone could then pat themselves on the back and all the white elites could tell each other how good they are to the poor old black fella.

And so Dutton should walk away from his silly idea of having ANOTHER referendum to 'recognise' aborigines, for what?

That that they did nothing for the country, or with the country, for 60,000 years?

That Australia is the only continent whose indigenous inhabitants never devised a written language?

What a joke!

On the matter of 'most Australians support recognition of aborigines' in the manner of Tony Abbott's proposed preamble to the Constitution, I can't find any evidence that this is true.

Is there a poll somewhere indicating this? Nothing to do with the now dead Voice; just the yada yada yada of Abbott's drone.

In 2019, there was a poll saying the majority supported 'recognition', but that was back when some thought is should be IN the Constitution, which would have just as absurd as the Voice, the Constitution being merely a rule book and agreement among the states.

I do not support recognition of aborigines or anyone else; and I don't believe that I'm the only one of 26 million Australians who feels that way.

Recognition would do nothing for anybody, except irritate and divide, if not quite as much as the Voice would have done if it had not got the rejection it deserved.