Joseph Lyons
David Day reviews 'Joseph Lyons: The people’s Prime Minister' by Anne Henderson
David Day
Thursday, 24 November 2011
This book is long overdue. It is eighty years since affable Joseph Lyons, often depicted by cartoonists as a koala, was elected as Australia’s tenth prime minister. He would be re-elected twice before dying in office in April 1939. During his seven years as prime minister, Lyons had to grapple with the Depression ...
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December 2011–January 2012, no. 337