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Speaker Jim Cope is elected Chairman after being moved and seconded by Fred Daly and Doug McClelland, and Cope outlines the bills focused on for the Joint Sitting, 6 August 1974
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Harold Holt introducing the new coin designs ahead of the switch from imperial to decimal currency, 1964
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Gough Whitlam’s opening remarks at the 1974 Joint Sitting, and Billy Snedden’s response, 6 August 1974
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Harold Holt being interviewed after leading the Liberals to a landslide re-election victory, November 1966
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“My feeling is that if this [project] is handled in the same fast-food, slick-ass ‘Persian Bazaar’ manner with which you seem to handle everything else, something’s gonna get missed.” - Demi Moore to Tom Cruise (A few good men).
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Hugh White, inaugural Director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) and former Deputy Secretary for Strategy and Intelligence in the Australian Department of Defence on AUKUS.
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Bill Hayden introducing the legislation establishing Medibank, Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme, at the 1974 Joint Sitting, with Billy Snedden and Bruce Lloyd arguing against the “socialist” proposal, 7 August 1974
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