O'Malley MHR: American Wanderer, Australian Trailblazer by Larry Noye

O'Malley MHR: American Wanderer, Australian Trailblazer by Larry Noye

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781921362224
Author: Larry Noye
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publisher: Sid Harta Publishers
Place: Glen Waverley VIC
Year: 2009
Format: Paperback
Pages: 439 pages
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy no external stickers. Protective plastic cover. Partial date due slip on inside. Interior and binding is still excellent.

Colour went with King O’Malley. He breezes into the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition of 1888 to have international pressmen rocking with laughter as he tells his stories.

He fights two elections in 1899 for the South Australian Colonial Parliament that remain lively, unreported chapters in its history. And during sixteen years in Federal Parliament, he packs ‘em in. He wins a seat in the newly federated Australian Parliament and fights off bitter, entrenched opposition to lead the Labor Party in founding a 'people’s bank, the Commonwealth Bank.

As an old man in Melbourne, O’Malley is appalled at a bid in 1939 toward undermining his bank with privatisation. He calls on Australians to swear by the tombs of their ancestors that they won’t allow this and would have been irate in its loss to privatisation in recent years. He was critical of how his Commonwealth Bank was being run as he would be today.

King O’Malley’s stirring life is the subject of three biographies and a hit musical. King strove amid central themes in Australian history – the vote for women, Federation, pensions, and the fight over conscription. As Minister for Home Affairs, he launched the bold bid to push a railway across the wastes to West Australia and led the building of Canberra.

King O’Malley was a national hero of a high order. (back cover)

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