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Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page GCMG, CH (August 8, 1880–December 20, 1961), Australian politician, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Australia. Image File history File links Earlepage. ...
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Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939), Australian politician, tenth Prime Minister of Australia. ...
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ...
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Born in Grafton, New South Wales, Page was educated at Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney, where he graduated in medicine at the top of his year in 1901. He practised in Sydney and Grafton before joining the Australian Army as a medical officer in the First World War, serving in Egypt. After the war he went into farming and was elected Mayor of Grafton. </ref> | est = 1851 | elevation = 5 | maxtemp = 25. ...
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In 1919 Page was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as MP for Cowper as a candidate of the Farmers and Settlers Association of New South Wales, which in 1920 became the Country Party. He became the party's leader in 1921. Dislike of the Hughes government's rural policies was one of the reasons the Country Party was formed, and when the party won the balance of power in the House at the 1922 elections, Page demanded and got Hughes's resignation as the price for supporting the Nationalist government. Australian House of Representatives chamber Entrance to the House of Representatives The Australian House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers) of the Parliament of Australia. ...
The Division of Cowper is an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales. ...
The National Party of Australia is an Australian conservative political party, which claims to represent rural voters. ...
William Morris Billy Hughes, (September 25, 1862–October 28, 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most colourful figures in Australian political history. ...
The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party formed in 1917 from a merger of pro-conscription members of the Labor Party (who had been operating under the banner National Labor after their earlier split with the Labor party) with the Commonwealth Liberal Party. ...
Page then became Treasurer (finance minister) in the Bruce government, a position he held until 1929. He was a strong believer in orthodox finance and conservative policies, except where the welfare of farmers was concerned: then he was happy to see government money spent freely. He was also a "high protectionist": a supporter of high tariff barriers to protect Australian rural industries. The Department of the Treasury, Canberra The Australian Treasurer is the minister responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising. ...
Rt Hon Stanley Bruce Stanley Melbourne Bruce (15 April 1883 - August 25, 1967), Australian politician and diplomat, later Viscount Bruce of Melbourne and Westminster, was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia. ...
When the Bruce government was defeated by Labor in 1929, Page went into opposition. In 1931 Joseph Lyons was able to form a United Australia Party government without Country Party support. In 1934, however, the coalition was re-formed, and Page became Minister for Commerce. He was knighted in 1938. The title of Deputy Prime Minister did not then exist, but when Lyons died suddenly in 1939, it was Page whom the Governor-General called on to become caretaker Prime Minister. He held the office for three weeks while the UAP elected a new leader. Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September 1879 – 7 April 1939), Australian politician, tenth Prime Minister of Australia. ...
The United Australia Party or UAP was an Australian political party that was the political successor to the Nationalist Party of Australia. ...
Lord Gowrie Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie VC, KBE, PC (6 July 1872 - 2 May 1955), tenth Governor-General of Australia, was born in Windsor, Berkshire, England, the second son of the 8th Baron Ruthven. ...
Page had been very close to Lyons, and he disliked Robert Menzies, Lyons's deputy, on the grounds that Menzies had been disloyal to Lyons. When Menzies was elected UAP leader, Page refused to serve under him, and made an extraordinary personal attack on him in the House, accusing him of cowardice for failing to enlist during World War One. His party soon rebelled, however, and Page was deposed as Country Party leader and replaced by Archie Cameron. Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ...
Archie Galbraith Cameron (22 March 1895 _ 9 August 1956). ...
In 1940 Page and Menzies patched up their differences for the sake of the war effort, and Page returned to the Cabinet. However, Page's charges were not forgotten and were occasionally raised in parliament by Menzies' opponents (notably Eddie Ward). In 1941, however, the government fell and Page spent the eight years of the Curtin and Chifley Labor governments on the opposition backbench. In 1949 Menzies returned to office and Page was made Minister for Health. He held this post until 1956, when he was 76, then retired to the backbench. John Curtin (8 January 1885 – 5 July 1945), Australian politician and 14th Prime Minister of Australia, led Australia when the Australian mainland came under direct military threat during the Japanese advance in World War II. Many Australians regard him as the countrys greatest political leader and greatest Prime Minister. ...
Joseph Benedict Chifley (22 September 1885 – 13 June 1951), Australian politician and 16th Prime Minister of Australia, was one of Australias most influential Prime Ministers. ...
Page refused to consider retirement from Parliament, even at the 1961 election, when he was 81, suffering from lung cancer and too sick to campaign. In one of the great electoral upsets of Australian history, he lost his seat, which he had held for 42 years — indeed only Billy Hughes served longer as a member of the Australian Parliament. He died a few days later, without knowing he had been defeated. Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ...
Rt Hon Billy Hughes William Morris Billy Hughes (September 25, 1862 - October 28, 1952), Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, the longest-serving member of the Australian Parliament, and one of the most controversial figures in Australian political history. ...
Page was the first Chancellor of the University of New England, Australia, which was established in 1954. Earle Page College was formed in his honour as a residential college on campus, and is the venue for the Earle Page Annual Politics Dinner, which has had numerous prominent national and international guest lecturers. The University of New England (UNE) was originally formed in 1938 as the New England University College, a College of the University of Sydney. ...
Earle Page College is a residential college of the University of New England located in Armidale, New South Wales, Australia. ...
His grandson Donald Page is currently a National MP in the NSW Parliament and served as Deputy Leader of the NSW Nationals from 2003 to 2007. Donald Page is an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly commencing 19 March, 1988 (49th Parliament). ...
See also
The Page Ministry was the twenty-fifth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 7th April 1939 to 26th April 1939. ...
External links - Earle Page - Australia's Prime Ministers / National Archives of Australia
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