Table of Contents

Foreword by Rodney Cavalier; Editor's Introduction; MY POLITICAL LIFE; By William Arthur Holman; 1 The McGowen Government Takes Office; 2 Government by Bare Majority, 1911; 3 McGowen's Final Session; 4 Holman Replaces McGowen: Re-election in 1913; 5 War Breaks Out; 6 Conscription and the Labor Split; NINE CROWDED YEARS; John Percy Osborne; 1 Political apprenticeship; 2 The 1910 election: A new MP in a new Government; 3 Hanging on by a thread - 1911; 4 A disorderly Parliament - 1912; 5 Legislative Concerns - 1912; 6 The 1913 election; 7 Real Estate Complications; 8 The outbreak of war - 1914-15; 9 A wartime legislative program - 1914-16; 10 Divisions between Government and Party - 1916; 11 The first conscription plebiscite. The Labor split; 12 Holman's Nationalist Government; 13 Labor in the 1917 election; 14 ndustrial unrest - and a second reforendum; 15 Labor in Opposition - 1918; 16 Retirement from politics.

About the Author

Before retiring in 1997. Michael Hogan taught Australian politics and society in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney for twenty years. He has written or edited more than a dozen books, including Public versus Private Schools: Funding and Directions in Australia (Penguin, 1984); The Sectarian Strand: Religion in Australian History (Penguin, 1987); and Local Labor: A History of the Labor Party in Glebe 1891-2003 (Federation, 2004). He is a member of the committee set up by Premier Bob Carr to promote historical research in preparation for the celebration of the 'Sesquicentanary of Responsible Government in New South Wales 1856-2006'.