187. Australian Prime Ministers: Edmund Barton - Robert Menzies (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
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🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 1:04.6 | Brackley towers, and bitterly addressed him thus. |
| 1:07.6 | Sir, you have disappointed us. We had intended you to be the next Prime Minister, but three. The stocks were sold, the press was |
| 1:15.1 | squared, the middle class was quite prepared. But as it is, oh, my language fails. Go out and govern New South Wales. |
| 1:24.8 | That was Ilair Bellock and that's the fate of Lord Lundy |
| 1:30.5 | in one of his Bellock's cautionary tales, his poems published in 1907. |
| 1:35.0 | And of course, governing New South Wales, which is the fate that awaits Lord Lundy, |
| 1:39.0 | Tom, that's a fate worse than death for Edwardian, |
| 1:42.8 | Edwardian Britain. |
| 1:43.8 | Especially being lined up to become Prime Minister. |
| 1:45.9 | Exactly. |
| 1:46.9 | Although by 1987, Australia had become federated, so Prime Ministers were being elected to run Australia. |
| 1:57.0 | Yes, we have been thinking a great deal about Australian Prime Ministers in the last few hours. Speak for yourself, days. |
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