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Politicians and the Telephone: Assessing the Australian Evidence

Politicians and the Telephone: Assessing the Australian Evidence Footnotes [This paper has been prepared with the assistance of an ARC grant for work on ‘The Social Impact of the Telephone’] 1 Ann Moyal, Clear Across Australia, A History of Telecommunications . (Thomas Nelson Australia, 1984). p. 89. 2 I. de Sola Pool, Forecasting the Telephone (Norwood, New Jersey, Ablex, 1983). 3 Moyal, op. cit ., p. 112. 4 Alfred Deakin, Federal Politics: The Liberal Party and its Liberal Programme (Adelaide. 1906). 5 L.F. Fitzhardinge, The Little Digger. William Morris Hughes: a political biography . Vol. 2 (Sydney, Angus and Robertson. 1979), pp. 211–12. 6 Cf. Ch.6 Moyal op. cit , ‘The Long Reign of Poo‐bah Brown’. 7 Ibid ., p. 125. 8 Lloyd George, War Memoirs , and Lord Beaverbrook. Politicians and the War (London, 1927) and Men and Power (London, 1956). are cases in point. 9 The first telephone call linking Perth and Melbourne was made between Postmaster‐General Lyons and the Western Australian Premier, Sir James Mitchell, across the Western Australian Transcontinental Telephone Service on 18 December 1930. The Bass Strait cable bringing Tasmania into telephone touch with mainland Australia was laid in November 1935 and opened for telephone business in March 1936. 10 Moyal, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Copyright © 1988 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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10.1111/j.1467-8497.1988.tb01183.x
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Footnotes [This paper has been prepared with the assistance of an ARC grant for work on ‘The Social Impact of the Telephone’] 1 Ann Moyal, Clear Across Australia, A History of Telecommunications . (Thomas Nelson Australia, 1984). p. 89. 2 I. de Sola Pool, Forecasting the Telephone (Norwood, New Jersey, Ablex, 1983). 3 Moyal, op. cit ., p. 112. 4 Alfred Deakin, Federal Politics: The Liberal Party and its Liberal Programme (Adelaide. 1906). 5 L.F. Fitzhardinge, The Little Digger. William Morris Hughes: a political biography . Vol. 2 (Sydney, Angus and Robertson. 1979), pp. 211–12. 6 Cf. Ch.6 Moyal op. cit , ‘The Long Reign of Poo‐bah Brown’. 7 Ibid ., p. 125. 8 Lloyd George, War Memoirs , and Lord Beaverbrook. Politicians and the War (London, 1927) and Men and Power (London, 1956). are cases in point. 9 The first telephone call linking Perth and Melbourne was made between Postmaster‐General Lyons and the Western Australian Premier, Sir James Mitchell, across the Western Australian Transcontinental Telephone Service on 18 December 1930. The Bass Strait cable bringing Tasmania into telephone touch with mainland Australia was laid in November 1935 and opened for telephone business in March 1936. 10 Moyal,

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Published: Dec 1, 1988

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