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Australia
Published in Vanity Fair
16 October 1902
Offset Lithograph
Rex Nan Kivell Collection
Pictorial Collection
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| On the 1st
of March 1901 Parliament was opened by the Duke of York, later to
be crowned George V. The first Cabinet consisted of Edmund Barton
as Prime Minister and Minister for External Affairs, Alfred Deakin
Attorney General, George Turner as Treasurer, James Dickson as Minister
for Defence, Charles Kingston as Minister for Trade and Customs, John
Forrest as Post-Master General, and William Lyne as Minister of Home
Affairs. As there were only seven paid positions within the Cabinet,
Richard O'Connor was appointed an unpaid honorary member. Edmund Barton
was Prime Minister for a little over two and a half years, yet this
brief period was to shape the Commonwealth for many years to come. |
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