Essay On Stanley Bruce

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Prime Minister Biography Stanley Bruce Student Name: Hunter Saifiti Due Date: 27/05/2018 Early Years. Stanley Bruce was born on 15th of April 1883 in St Kilda. He was the youngest of five children. His father John Bruce had emigrated from Ireland to Australia in 1858 when he was 18. His mother, Mary Henderson, was Irish and had married her cousin John after migrating to Australia in 1872 at the age of 24 John Bruce was a very talented businessman. A good golfer, he was one of the founders of the Royal Melbourne Golf Club. John was an early supporter of future prime minister, Alfred Deakin. John's success ensured that Bruce, his sister Mary and brothers Ernest, William and Robert were born into affluence. Shortly after Bruce's birth the family moved to Toorak. However, John was an aloof and remote figure in the lives of his children, as Bruce later recounted. Despite their family's Presbyterian faith, Bruce was sent to Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Bruce would start to become an Anglican. Bruce was an average student but extremely active in the sporting life of the school. He was captain of the school football team, and captain of the school itself in 1901. Early Career. Stanley moved to Melbourne when he was 18 .His …show more content…

Hughes had failed to get a absolute majority in the election and the Country Party also refused a coalition again. He was forced to recommend Bruce. Protecting his flank from Hughes by getting his approval for George Pearce to join the ministry, Bruce conceded to Earle Page five of the eleven portfolios, sufficient for the Country Party to value the coalition tactic. Throughout his six and a half years as prime minister his first priority was to maintain the coalition. Repeatedly he arranged an electoral pacts well in advance to forestall demands from his own party to do it alone. He was the architect of the most powerful and durable alliance in Australian

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