Ben Chifley is probably most remembered for two things: his serious efforts to implement some of the more socialist ideals of the Australian Labour Party, and this speech. Both, ultimately, come from the same wellspring: Chifley’s compassionate idealism. He is also the only Australian Prime Minister never to have lived at the Lodge, and...
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1949 – Ben Chifley makes the ‘Light on the Hill’ speech
1949 – John George Haigh is executed for murder
The murderous career of John George Haigh is an object lesson in the importance of forensics in obtaining convictions. Haigh disposed of the bodies of people he killed by dissolving them in baths full of acid – he believed that the police needed a body in order to convict. He was wrong, of course...
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