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Letter to Prime Minister Ben Chifley advocating for Aboriginal Representation in Parliament.

Request for First Australian representation in federal parliament – Letter to Prime Minister Chifley

This is a letter from Labor Member of Parliament Kim E Beazley (Senior) to Prime Minister Ben Chifley.

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Prime Minister Ben Chifley and Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell greet postwar migrants.

Prime Minister Ben Chifley and Immigration Minister greet postwar migrants

This is a photograph taken in 1947 of Prime Minister Ben Chifley greeting a recently arrived immigrant outside (Old) Parliament House in Canberra.

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This is a newspaper article about the White Australia Policy.

Criticism of White Australia policy in Malaysian newspaper after events of World War II

This is a newspaper article about the White Australia Policy, as published by The Malaya Tribune, 03 May 1947.

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Letter to the Prime Minister from Conference of Churches of Christ in Victoria, deploring the White Australia Policy.

Victorian churches oppose White Australia policy – letter to Prime Minister Ben Chifley

A letter to the Prime Minister about the 83rd Annual Conference of Churches of Christ, in which the Victorian churches deplored the White Australia Policy.

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Public hostility between Labor ministers over immigration policy.

Public hostility between Labor ministers over immigration policy

A newspaper article from the Sunday Sun on 29 May 1949, covering hostility between Immigration Minister Arthur Calwell and Deputy Prime Minister H. V. Evatt.

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Letter to Prime Minister JB 'Ben' Chifley

Letter to Prime Minister Chifley advocating for Chinese immigrants

Letter to Prime Minister Chifley advocating for Chinese immigrants

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Sir William McKell starts the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme by setting off a charge of dynamite.

Governor-General Sir William McKell launches construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme

Governor-General Sir William McKell officially starting the construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme by pressing a plunger to set off a charge of dynamite.

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Portrait of Dr Herbert Vere Evatt holding a pencil.

Portrait of Deputy Prime Minister Dr Herbert Vere Evatt

This black-and-white photograph shows Dr Herbert Vere Evatt, Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs.

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Portrait of Prime Minister Ben Chifley.

Portrait of Prime Minister Ben Chifley

This is a black-and-white photograph of the Rt Hon Ben Chifley, Australia's sixteenth Prime Minister.