The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
- ISBN-10
- 0868409960
- ISBN-13
- 9780868409962
- Category
- Electronic book
- Pages
- 691
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- UNSW Press
- Author
- Ann Millar
Description
Australian senators who served from 1963 to 2009 are featured in this third volume in the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate series. Prepared by academics and parliamentary researchers, individual articles on the senators provide biographical accounts and a telling history of the term of the Whitlam government and the rise of the senate’s committee system.
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