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1920 in Australia, the Glossary

The following lists events that happened during 1920 in Australia.^[1]

203 relations: Adelaide, Adrian Knox, Alan Loxton, Albert Chowne, Alexander William Jardine, Alfred Conroy, Alfred Deakin Brookes, Allan Cuthbertson, Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, Angus Gibson, Antwerp, Archibald Peake, Archibald Weigall, Arthur Boyd, Arthur Gietzelt, Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, Australasia, Australia at the 1920 Summer Olympics, Australian Labor Party, Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Balmain Tigers, Banknote, Bertie Brownlow, Bill Brown (Australian politician), Bill Grayden, Bill Gunn (Queensland politician, born 1920), Bill Heatley, Bill Sidwell, Billy Hughes, Bob Cristofani, Chief Justice of Australia, Claude Tozer, Colin Thiele, Collingwood Football Club, Communist Party of Australia, Constitution of Australia, Deputy Premier of Queensland, Des Fothergill, Don Benson, Don Grossman, Donald Watt (sportsman), Douglas Scott (politician), Eddie Jaku, Edmund Barton, Edward VIII, Florence Bjelke-Petersen, Francis Newdegate, Frank Scully (politician), George Batchelor, George Ernest Morrison, ... Expand index (153 more) »
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Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Adrian Knox

Sir Adrian Knox (29 November 186327 April 1932) was an Australian lawyer and judge who served as the second Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1919 to 1930.

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Alan Loxton

Alan Hamilton Loxton (13 April 1920 – 29 March 2004) was the senior partner at Allen, Allen and Hemsley, Australia's oldest law firm, President of the Law Society of New South Wales and a company director.

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Albert Chowne

Albert Chowne, VC, MM (19 July 1920 – 25 March 1945) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to Commonwealth forces.

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Alexander William Jardine

Alexander William Jardine (9 October 1843 – 20 March 1920), A.M.I.C.E., made a trip from Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia to Somerset, Queensland in 1864.

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Alfred Conroy

Alfred Hugh Beresford Conroy (7 April 1864 – 28 November 1920) was an Australian politician.

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Alfred Deakin Brookes

Alfred Deakin Brookes (11 April 1920 – 19 June 2005) was the first head of the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, the intelligence agency of the Australian government that collects foreign intelligence.

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Allan Cuthbertson

Allan Darling Cuthbertson (7 April 1920 – 8 February 1988) was an Australian-British actor.

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Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd

Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd, commonly known as the Engineers case,.

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Angus Gibson

Angus Gibson (1842–1920) was a sugar planter and politician.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Archibald Peake

Archibald Henry Peake (15 January 1859 – 6 April 1920) was an Australian politician.

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Archibald Weigall

Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, (8 December 1874 – 3 June 1952) was a British Conservative politician who served as Governor of South Australia from 9 June 1920 until 30 May 1922.

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Arthur Boyd

Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd (24 July 1920 – 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century.

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Arthur Gietzelt

Arthur Thomas Gietzelt, AO (28 December 1920 – 5 January 2014) was an Australian politician and minister.

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Arthur Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley

Arthur Lyulph Stanley, 5th Baron Stanley of Alderley, (14 September 1875 – 22 August 1931), also 5th Baron Sheffield and 4th Baron Eddisbury, was an English nobleman and Governor of Victoria from 1914 to 1920.

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Australasia

Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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Australia at the 1920 Summer Olympics

Australia competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Belgium.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Australian Secret Intelligence Service

The Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS) is the foreign intelligence agency of the Commonwealth of Australia, responsible for gathering, processing, and analysing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence.

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Balmain Tigers

The Balmain Tigers (also known as the Sydney Tigers from 1995 to 1996) are a rugby league club based in the inner-western Sydney suburb of Balmain.

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Banknote

A banknotealso called a bill (North American English), paper money, or simply a noteis a type of negotiable promissory note, made by a bank or other licensed authority, payable to the bearer on demand.

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Bertie Brownlow

Bertie Brownlow (20 May 1920 – 22 October 2004) was a Tasmanian cricket player, who played first-class cricket for Tasmania eight times between the 1952–53 season and the 1956–57 season.

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Bill Brown (Australian politician)

William Walter Charles Brown (4 December 1920 – 26 June 2001) was an Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1969 to 1970 and 1971 to 1978, representing the Labor Party.

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Bill Grayden

The Honourable William Leonard Grayden (born Wilbur Ives; 5 August 1920) is an Australian former politician.

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Bill Gunn (Queensland politician, born 1920)

William Angus Manson Gunn AM (22 June 1920 – 20 September 2001) was an Australian politician who represented the Queensland Legislative Assembly seat of Somerset from 1972 until 1992.

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Bill Heatley

William Clarence Heatley (12 July 1920 – 29 October 1971) was an Australian politician.

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Bill Sidwell

Oswald William Thomas Sidwell (16 April 1920 – 19 August 2021) was an Australian tennis player.

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Billy Hughes

William Morris Hughes (25 September 1862 – 28 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923.

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Bob Cristofani

Desmond Robert Cristofani (14 November 1920 – 21 August 2002) was an Australian cricketer who played 18 first-class matches in the 1940s.

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Chief Justice of Australia

The chief justice of Australia is the presiding justice of the High Court of Australia and the highest-ranking judicial officer in the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Claude Tozer

Claude John Tozer DSO (27 September 1890 – 21 December 1920) was an Australian medical doctor and first-class cricketer who played for New South Wales.

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Colin Thiele

Colin Milton Thiele (16 November 1920 – 4 September 2006) was an Australian author and educator.

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The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.

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Communist Party of Australia

The Communist Party of Australia (CPA), known as the Australian Communist Party (ACP) from 1944 to 1951, was an Australian communist party founded in 1920.

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Constitution of Australia

The Constitution of Australia (also known as the Commonwealth Constitution) is the fundamental law that governs the political structure of Australia.

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Deputy Premier of Queensland

The deputy premier of Queensland is a role in the Government of Queensland assigned to a responsible Minister in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Des Fothergill

Desmond Hugh Fothergill (15 July 1920 – 16 March 1996) was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and for Williamstown Football Club in the Victorian Football Association (VFA).

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Don Benson

Don Benson (9 April 1920 – 12 June 2019) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Richmond in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Don Grossman

Donald Clarence Grossman (27 December 1920 – 5 August 2004) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Donald Watt (sportsman)

Donald Watt (15 March 1920 – 20 May 2007) was an Australian first-class cricketer who played for Queensland.

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Douglas Scott (politician)

Douglas Barr Scott (12 May 1920 – 12 March 2012) was a former Australian National Party politician and briefly government minister.

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Eddie Jaku

Edward Jaku (born Abraham Salomon Jakubowicz; 14 April 1920 – 12 October 2021) was a survivor of several German concentration camps during World War II, who wrote of his wartime experiences after emigrating to Australia.

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Edmund Barton

Sir Edmund "Toby" Barton (18 January 18497 January 1920) was an Australian statesman, barrister and jurist who served as the first prime minister of Australia from 1901 to 1903.

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Edward VIII

Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire, and Emperor of India, from 20 January 1936 until his abdication in December of the same year.

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Florence Bjelke-Petersen

Florence Isabel Bjelke-Petersen (née Gilmour; 11 August 1920 – 20 December 2017) was an Australian politician.

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Francis Newdegate

Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate, (31 December 1862 – 2 January 1936) was an English Conservative Party politician.

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Frank Scully (politician)

Francis Raymond Scully (27 January 1920 – 12 August 2015), Australian politician, from 1949 was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Richmond representing the Labor Party to March 1955.

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George Batchelor

George Keith Batchelor FRS (8 March 1920 – 30 March 2000) was an Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist.

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George Ernest Morrison

George Ernest Morrison (4 February 1862 – 30 May 1920) was an Australian journalist, political adviser to and representative of the government of the Republic of China during the First World War and owner of the then largest Asiatic library ever assembled.

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George Georges

George Georges (born George Georgouras; 15 April 1920 – 23 September 2002) was a Labor senator for Queensland from 1968 to 1986, and independent senator from 1986 to 1987.

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Governor of New South Wales

The governor of New South Wales is the representative of the monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales.

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Governor of Queensland

The Governor of Queensland is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the state of Queensland.

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Governor of South Australia

The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the monarch, currently King Charles III.

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Governor of Tasmania

The governor of Tasmania is the representative in the Australian state of Tasmania of the monarch, currently King Charles III.

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Governor of Victoria

The governor of Victoria is the representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in the Australian state of Victoria.

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Governor of Western Australia

The governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of the monarch, King Charles III.

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Governor-General of Australia

The governor-general of Australia is the representative of the monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III.

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Great Britain national rugby league team

The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league.

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Gwen Harwood

Gwen Harwood (née Gwendoline Nessie Foster, 8 June 19205 December 1995) was an Australian poet and librettist.

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Hamilton Goold-Adams

Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams, (27 June 1858 – 12 April 1920) was an Irish soldier and colonial administrator, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1915 to 1920.

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Harold Ball

Harold Charles Ball (29 May 1920 – 9 February 1942) was an Australian rules football player for the Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL), who also served with the 2/9 Field Ambulance, Australian Army Medical Corps.

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Harry Lawson (politician)

Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG (5 March 1875 – 12 June 1952), was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924.

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Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer.

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Henry Barwell

Sir Henry Newman Barwell KCMG (26 February 187730 September 1959) was the 28th premier of South Australia.

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Henry Daglish

Henry Daglish (18 November 1866 – 16 August 1920) was an Australian politician who was the sixth premier of Western Australia and the first from the Labor Party, serving from 10 August 1904 to 25 August 1905.

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Henry Forster, 1st Baron Forster

Henry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster, (31 January 1866 – 15 January 1936) was a British politician who served as the seventh Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1920 to 1925.

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Henry Galway

Lieutenant Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, (25 September 1859 – 17 June 1949) was a British Army officer and the Governor of South Australia from 18 April 1914 until 30 April 1920.

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Henry Strangways

Henry Bull Templar Strangways (14 November 1832 – 10 February 1920) was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia.

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Herbert S. Green

Herbert Sydney Green (17 December 1920 – 16 February 1999) was a British–Australian physicist.

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High Court of Australia

The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system.

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J. J. C. Smart

John Jamieson Carswell Smart (16 September 1920 – 6 October 2012) was a British-Australian philosopher who was appointed as an Emeritus Professor by the Australian National University.

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Jack Mannix

Norman John Mannix (16 August 1920 – 17 June 1994) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1952 until 1971.

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James Mitchell (Australian politician)

Sir James Mitchell, (27 April 1866 – 26 July 1951) was an Australian politician.

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Joe Kirkwood Jr.

Reginald Thomas Kirkwood (30 May 1920 – 7 September 2006), better known as Joe Kirkwood Jr., was a professional golfer on the PGA Tour and a film actor.

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John Armitage (politician)

John Lindsay Armitage OAM (11 November 1920 – 13 April 2009) was an Australian politician.

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John Brack

John Brack (10 May 1920 – 11 February 1999) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.

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John Hipwell (architect)

John Hipwell (30 November 1920 – 16 June 2007) was an Australian architect who practised and designed mainly in Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia.

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John Storey (politician)

John Storey (15 May 1869 – 5 October 1921) was an Australian politician who was Premier of New South Wales from 12 April 1920 until his sudden death in Sydney.

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Johnny Lockwood

John Sidney Lockwood (7 December 192025 April 2013) was a British variety entertainer, comedian and actor, who also became notable in Australia after emigrating to that country.

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Joy Hester

Joy St Clair Hester (21 August 1920 – 4 December 1960) was an Australian artist.

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Joyce King

Joyce A. King (1 September 1920 – 10 June 2001) was an Australian sprinter.

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Keith Froome

George Keith Froome (1920–1978) was an Australian rugby league player.

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Keith Leopold

Keith Leopold (30 July 1920 - 1999) was an Australian author of English, French and German language adventure novels for children and young adults, and German Language Reference books.

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Ken Fry

Kenneth Lionel Fry (8 November 192010 October 2007) was a Member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Fraser, Australian Capital Territory for the Australian Labor Party, from 1974 to 1984.

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Kevin Brennan (actor)

Kevin Martin Brennan (12 September 1920 – 17 December 1998) was an Australian-born British-based film and television actor.

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Kevin O'Leary (judge)

Kevin Fredrick O'Leary QC (19 February 1920 – 3 August 2015) was the second Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.

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Leo McKern

Reginald "Leo" McKern, AO (16 March 1920 – 23 July 2002) was an Australian actor who appeared in numerous British, Australian and American television programmes and films, and in more than 200 stage roles.

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Louisa Lawson

Louisa Lawson (née Albury) (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist.

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Matthew Nathan

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Matthew Nathan (3 January 1862 – 18 April 1939) was a British soldier and colonial administrator, who variously served as the governor of Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Hong Kong, Natal and Queensland.

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Max Fatchen

Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM (3 August 192014 October 2012) was an Australian children's writer and journalist.

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Melbourne

Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.

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Melbourne Cup

The Melbourne Cup is an annual Group 1 Thoroughbred horse race held in Melbourne, Australia, at the Flemington Racecourse.

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The Melbourne Football Club, nicknamed the Demons, is a professional Australian rules football club that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition.

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Mervyn Lee

Mervyn William Lee (18 August 1920 – 13 December 2009) was an Australian politician who served as the Liberal member for Lalor from 1966 to 1969.

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Michael Pate

Michael Pate OAM (born Edward John Pate; 26 February 1920 – 1 September 2008) was an Australian actor, writer, director, and producer, who also worked prolifically as a supporting actor in Hollywood films and American Television during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Monarchy of Australia

The monarchy of Australia is a key component of Australia's form of government, by which a hereditary monarch serves as the country’s sovereign and head of state.

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Murray–Darling basin

The Murray–Darling Basin is a large geographical area in the interior of southeastern Australia, encompassing the drainage basin of the tributaries of the Murray River, Australia's longest river, and the Darling River, a right tributary of the Murray and Australia's third-longest river.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.

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Nationalist Party (Australia)

The Nationalist Party, also known as the National Party, was an Australian political party.

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Nev Hewitt

Neville Thomas Eric "Nev" Hewitt (19 October 1920 – 19 July 2016) was an Australian politician.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales cricket team

The New South Wales men's cricket team (formerly named NSW Blues) are an Australian men's professional first class cricket team based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Nigel Abbott

Nigel Drury Gresley Abbott (29 March 1920 – 13 November 2011) was an Australian politician.

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Noel Desmond Gray

Noel Desmond Gray (26 December 1920 – November 1999) was a senior design engineer at the Philips subsidiary Kriesler and medical student at the University of Sydney after War service in the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.

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Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Oodgeroo Noonuccal (born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska, later Kath Walker (3 November 192016 September 1993) was an Aboriginal Australian political activist, artist and educator, who campaigned for Aboriginal rights. Noonuccal was best known for her poetry, and was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse.

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Oriel Gray

Oriel Holland Bennett (26 March 1920 – 30 June 2003) known by pen name Oriel Gray, was an Australian dramatist, playwright and screenwriter who wrote from the 1940s to 1990s.

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Paula Stafford

Paula Stafford OAM (10 June 1920 – 23 June 2022) was an Australian fashion designer credited with introducing the bikini to Australia.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Peter Connolly (Australian judge)

Peter David Connolly QC (29 September 1920- 3 May 2009) was an Australian politician and judge of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

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Peter Isaacson

Peter Stuart Isaacson, AM, DFC, AFC, DFM (31 July 1920 – 7 April 2017) was an Australian publisher and decorated military pilot.

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Premier of New South Wales

The premier of New South Wales is the head of government in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Premier of Queensland

The premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

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Premier of South Australia

The premier of South Australia is the head of government in the state of South Australia, Australia.

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Premier of Tasmania

The premier of Tasmania is the head of the executive government in the Australian state of Tasmania.

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Premier of Victoria

The premier of Victoria is the head of government of the state of Victoria in Australia.

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Premier of Western Australia

The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia.

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Prime Minister of Australia

The prime minister of Australia is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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Princes Highway

Princes Highway is a major road in Australia, extending from Sydney via Melbourne to Adelaide through the states of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia.

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Qantas

Qantas Airways Limited, or simply Qantas, is the flag carrier of Australia, and is the largest airline by fleet size, international flights, and international destinations in Australia and Oceania.

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R v Licensing Court of Brisbane; Ex parte Daniell

R v Licensing Court of Brisbane; Ex parte Daniell.

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Reg Gillard

Reginald Gillard (13 March 1920 – 16 August 2001) was an Australian politician.

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Reg Saunders

Reginald Walter Saunders, MBE (7 August 1920 – 2 March 1990) was the first Aboriginal Australian to be commissioned as an officer in the Australian Army.

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The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed the Tigers, is a professional Australian rules football team competing in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Robert Etheridge, Junior

Robert Etheridge (23 May 1847 – 4 January 1920) was a British palaeontologist who made important contributions to the Australian Museum.

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Robert King (Victorian politician)

Robert Shannon King (22 March 1920 – 30 June 1991) was an Australian politician.

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Robert Klippel

Robert Klippel AO (19 June 192019 June 2001) was an Australian constructivist sculptor and teacher.

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Ronald Laurence Hughes

Major General Ronald Laurence Hughes, (17 September 1920 – 2 February 2003) was a senior infantry officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Second World War, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.

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Ronald Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar

Ronald Craufurd Munro Ferguson, 1st Viscount Novar, (6 March 1860 – 30 March 1934) was a British politician who served as the sixth Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1914 to 1920.

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Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, AO (18 June 192027 June 2012) was an Australian poet, who was also an illustrator, editor and anthologist.

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Russell Fox

Russell Walter Fox AC QC LLB (30 September 1920 – 22 December 2013) was an Australian author, educator, jurist and former chief judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.

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Samuel Griffith

Sir Samuel Walker Griffith (21 June 1845 – 9 August 1920) was an Australian judge and politician who served as the inaugural Chief Justice of Australia, in office from 1903 to 1919.

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Sheffield Shield

The Sheffield Shield (currently known for sponsorship reasons as the Marsh Sheffield Shield) is the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia.

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Stuart Clarence Graham

Major General Stuart Clarence Graham, (23 October 1920 – 20 July 1996) was a senior officer in the Australian Army, seeing service during the Second World War, the Occupation of Japan and the Vietnam War.

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Supreme Court of Queensland

The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian State of Queensland.

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Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory

The Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory is the highest court of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).

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Supreme Court of the Northern Territory

The Supreme Court of the Northern Territory is the superior court for the Australian Territory of the Northern Territory.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sydney Swans

The Sydney Swans are a professional Australian rules football club based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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Ted Theodore

Edward Granville Theodore (29 December 1884 – 9 February 1950) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1919 to 1925, as leader of the state Labor Party.

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Thomas Ewing (Australian politician)

Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG (9 October 185615 September 1920) was an Australian politician.

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Thomas Pearsall (Australian politician)

Thomas Gordon Pearsall (11 April 1920 – 28 December 2003) was an Australian politician.

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Tony Gaze

Frederick Anthony Owen Gaze, (3 February 1920 – 29 July 2013) was an Australian fighter pilot and racing driver.

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Treasury (Australia)

The Department of the Treasury, also known as The Treasury, is the national treasury and financial department of the federal government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Valda Aveling

Valda Rose Aveling (16 May 192021 November 2007) was an Australian pianist, harpsichordist and clavichordist.

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Victoria (state)

Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.

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Victoria Cross

The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest and most prestigious decoration of the British decorations system.

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The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia operated by the Australian Football League (AFL) as a second-tier, regional, semi-professional competition.

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Vince Martin (politician)

Vincent Joseph Martin (14 May 1920 – 10 March 2001) was an Australian politician, the son of Joe and Elsie Martin.

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Virgil Brennan

Virgil Paul Brennan, (6 March 1920 – 13 June 1943), also known as Paul Brennan, was an Australian aviator and flying ace of the Second World War.

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Walter Edward Davidson

Sir Walter Edward Davidson, (20 April 1859 – 16 September 1923) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat.

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Walter Lee (Australian politician)

Sir Walter Henry Lee KCMG (27 April 18741 June 1963) was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.

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Weimar Republic

The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.

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William Allardyce

Sir William Lamond Allardyce, (14 November 1861 – 9 June 1930) was a career British civil servant in the Colonial Office who served as governor of Fiji (1901–1902), the Falkland Islands (1904–1914), Bahamas (1914–1920), Tasmania (1920–1922), and Newfoundland (1922–1928).

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William Ellison-Macartney

Sir William Grey Ellison-Macartney, (7 June 1852 – 4 December 1924) was an Irish-born British politician, who also served as the Governor of the Australian states of Tasmania and Western Australia.

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William Holman

William Arthur Holman (4 August 1871 – 5 June 1934) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1913 to 1920.

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Winton, Queensland

Winton is an outback town and locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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1848

1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.

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1920 Great Britain Lions tour

The 1920 Great Britain Lions tour was the third British national rugby league team or 'Lions' tour of Australasia, where it was winter and matches were played against the Australian and New Zealand national sides, as well as several local teams.

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1920 New South Wales state election

The 1920 New South Wales state election was held on 20 March 1920.

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1920 NSWRFL season

The 1920 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the thirteenth season of Sydney's professional rugby league football club competition, Australia's first.

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1920 Summer Olympics

The 1920 Summer Olympics (Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; Spelen van de VIIe Olympiade; Spiele der VII.) and commonly known as Antwerp 1920 (Anvers 1920; Dutch and German: Antwerpen 1920), were an international multi-sport event held in 1920 in Antwerp, Belgium.

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1920 VFL season

The 1920 VFL season was the 24th season of the Victorian Football League (VFL), the highest-level senior Australian rules football competition in Victoria.

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1920 Victorian state election

The 1920 Victorian state election was held in the Australian state of Victoria on Thursday 21 October 1920 to elect the 65 members of the state's Legislative Assembly.

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1942

The Uppsala Conflict Data Program project estimates this to be the deadliest year in human history in terms of conflict deaths, placing the death toll at 4.62 million.

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1943

Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.

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1945

1945 marked the end of World War II and the fall of Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan.

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1960

It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.

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1971

* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6).

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1978

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1988

1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the 1988 Internet worm.

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1990

Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South Africa, and the Baltic states declaring independence from the Soviet Union during Perestroika.

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1991

It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947.

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1993

1993 was designated as.

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1994

The year 1994 was designated as the "International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.

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1995

1995 was designated as.

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1996

1996 was designated as.

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1998

1998 was designated as the International Year of the Ocean.

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1999

1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.

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2000

2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year.

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2001

The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror.

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2002

After the September 11 attacks of the previous year, foreign policy and international relations were generally united in combating al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations.

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2003

2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater In 2003, a United States-led coalition invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.

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2004

2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO).

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2005

2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit.

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2006

2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification.

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2007

2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year.

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2008

2008 was designated as.

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2009

2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler.

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2011

The year marked the start of a series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, and in some cases sparking civil wars such as the Syrian civil war and the first Libyan civil war, the former still ongoing while the latter gave way to the second Libyan civil war.

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References

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