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Chris Watson, first leader of then Federal Labour Party 1901–07 (held the balance of power) and Prime Minister in 1904
John Christian Watson (9 April 1867 – 18 November 1941), commonly known as Chris Watson, Australian politician, was the third Prime Minister of Australia. He was the first prime minister from the Australian Labour Party (the spelling of ‘Labour’ was changed to ‘Labor’ in 1912), and the first Labour Party prime minister in the world. He was of Chilean descent with German ancestry.
What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
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| — | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832), Introduction (via fyeah-history) |
