The author tracks Australia's achievement of power and wealth through its natural resources and sheer luck. Horne uses the phrase "the lucky country" as a pejorative; he believes that Australians showed a lack of innovation and enterprise and were second rate politically and economically. Ironically, the phrase is now widely used to describe Australia in a complimentary way. Horne wrote a second book called "Death of the Lucky Country".A critique of Australia's political and economic achievements as an industrialised nation up until the 1960s. Paper; book. Front cover: black background; artistic impression - man in hat holding a glass of beer with ocean in the background.Front cover: author's name, title and price.natural resources, the lucky country, innovation, enterprise, politics, economics, btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, power, wealth, death of the lucky country, social criticism

Biography of Billy Hughes from his early career to gaining the office of Prime Minister of Australia. He also served as an organiser for the Amalgamated Shearers' Union prior to embarking upon his political career. He belonged to five different political parties over his parliamentary career: Labor, National Labor, Nationalist, Australian, United Australia, to Liberal.Relevance to Australian political history. Pertinent to biography of Billy Hughes.Paper; book. Front cover: painting of Billy Hughes; blue lettering.Front cover: title and author's name.btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, w. hughes, hughes, billy, prime minister, unions, amalgamated shearers' union, union organisers, politics, australian labor party, alp, national labor party, nationalist party, australian party, united australia party, liberal party australia, history, biography

Billy Hughes was Prime Minister of Australia from 1915-1923. He represented the following parties at different times: Labor (to 1916) National Labor (1916–17) Nationalist (1917–29) Independent (1929) Australian (1929–31) United Australia (1931–44) Independent (1944–45) Liberal (from 1945) He was expelled from three parties. Before going into politics, Hughes was involved in the trade union movement - particularly the Wharf Labourer's Union, founder of the Trolley, Draymen and Carters; Union and the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia.Politics - Australian. Trade unionism.Book; 196 pages. Cover: white background; picture (black and white) of Billy Hughes; blue and black lettering; author's name and title.btlc, ballarat trades and labour council, ballarat trades hall, prime ministers - australia - billy hughes, trolley, draymen and carters union, waterside workers' federation, alp, australian labor party, national labor party, nationalist party, politicians - independent, biography, politics and government, australian party, united australia party, liberal party australia, lpa

Three items of Annual Reports: 1/ Caulfield Institute of Technology Annual Report 1973. Including attached page of Council members and staff. Includes introduction giving history of the Educational establishment. 2/ Caulfield Institute of Technology Annual Report 1974. Includes photocopied sheet of staff and board names. 3/ Caulfield Institute of Technology Annual Report 1977. Includes two photocopied lists of staff and board members.ward t., boykett kenneth, whitlam gough prime minister, abbot pam, horne donald, k.h. boykett building, railway avenue, dandenong road, queens road, princes avenue, phillip law building carnegie, caulfield east, school boards, library, school of industrial studies, counselling services, computer centre, financial statement, degrees, diploma and graduate diplomas, certificates, school of engineering, school of general studies, administration services, colleges, moderne style, student union, building construction, building sites, budget task force, partridge committee (post secondary education), williams committee (education and training), saxe committee (nurse education), school of business, education, tertiary education

A sixteen-page pamphlet which has chronological dating of events in school from 1908 to 1982. Includes poliomyelitis epidemic in late 1930’s and 1949, and the need for slit trenches in 1942. It also has the eleven principals’ names over the sixty years. The pamphlet also has a memory of the first years by Robert Horne who attended Ripponlea from July 1922 to December 1924.ripponlea primary school, primary schools, reid athol, horne robert, ripponlea house estate, festivals and celebrations, war memorials, cottages, land subdivision, shelter sheds, carrington grove, sinclair a.j.g., world war 1939-1945, radio transmission, councillors, slit trenches, poliomyelitis, polio, woodruff john e., wilson henry a., young william, morris henry, skinner raymond g., cunningham donald h., junor phillip h., hatters charles, holt clare, baker clare, principals, st. aubins, house names, cass mr., horne mary, horne ruth, horne john, williamson miss, pollock miss, caulfield grammar school, horne paul, horne isabel, mcnichol mr., halliwell mr., tilley mr., higgins miss, weymouth miss, johansen miss, kennedy miss, wridgway miss, teachers, st. aubins avenue, sloyed rooms, sidwell estate, balaclava road, caulfield park, education, games, fetes, gymkhanas, leather tommy, triffin dick, florance joe, florance peter, florance sheila, florance shiela, compston gilbert, rogers jack, anderson stan, rogers bill, lynch master, kidd master, martin r., segenfield z., white ray, gray edna, curtis john, anderson walter, hoskins ben, horton warren, wastell inky, eastwood ted, eastwood grocery, balaclava, newsagency, alma road, watson willie, feitel maurice, bridges alf, moody jim, lucas cuylah, cooper dick, dairies, shirley kathleen, gates edna, moss thelma, simpson hilda, ryder ernie, blanton corah, reid athol

Ballarat School of Mines Students' Magazine, 1964. Editorial - Education or Indocrination, The Principal's Page, "The Happiest Days of your Life", From Mr. Arblaster, Ceremony to Stand On, The Creative Personality, Are we Overworked?, Folksinging by the Miners, S.M.B. Silent Movies Inc, Students' Representative Committee (S.R.C.), Presidential Report, Red Roar or the Commie Threat, Conventional Wisdom, The Malaysian Student in Australia, Conferring of Diplomas 1964, Prizes Presented, Sports, The Past and the Future, The possibility of Fusion Power, School Council, Members of staff, Full Time Diploma Students 1964Yellow soft cover with black inscriptions and black images on front cover, 96 pages including advertisements.ballarat school of mines students' magazine 1964, staff, sports, kelvin whitford, armand krastins, c. w. valentine, ray windmill, jennifer boyd, malcolm park, mg. b. mck. henry, jutta bacsak, noel brady, gloria medlyn, ken felstead, jan butterworth, wayne collins, diane berry, lora richter, mr arblaster, eric fromm, john costa, stephen drew, judi woodward, michael moissinac, e. r. mcgrath, geoff. pepperell, marilyn barclay, gary roberts, jon mcdonald, ratnam nachiappan, jeni milbourne, dalia berzins, bernard livingston, ken ogden, g. n. hart, k. g. whitford, e. j. barker, h. j. trudinger, margaret leong, yew har ong, william cheng, ellen leong, joan wright, poh teck shen, kristine goodier, kok fong ho, kenneth laurence blee, jillian margaret norton, francis john pomeroy, graeme reginald williams, robert christopher blayney, alan joseph horne, anthony chai shing yeung, matthew john zeegars, peter william dalton, donald francis holmes, francis yung hei kwong, william lawrence moore, david sydney perry, vincent william quinn, graeme arthur waller, alan desmond bellingham, george ikstrums, george lauchlan nevet leishman, barry john lonsdale, malcolm john peel, harold matthew everett, bruce hugh flavel, chin kee hung, barry james patterson, willem roodenburg, raymond john benn, lloyd john menz, ian boyd beaumont, victor raymond wilson, norman kenneth hullick, philip clive lockyer, peter grantley prest, robert michael norton, chermsak tanskul, kenneth james mciver, neil albert bromley, robert james chapman, norman lindsay nash, joe hart, john thorne, greg. hunter, wayne johnson, robert e. grubb, tan joo lim, l. t. negri, p. h. malins, ruth russell, colin jellet, ken delany, roger lonsdale, bobby ong gim sen, ooi kok hai