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- Title
- Elmslie, Prendergast and Hogan: labouring against the tide
- Author(s)
- Love, Peter
- Abstract
- They were slow to materialise compared to other States, slight in their legislative impression and mostly fleeting in occupancy---they were the early Laborite premiers, George Elmslie, George Prendergast and Ned Hogan. The governments of Elmslie (December 1913), and Prendergast (July to November 1924) were products of discord on the non-Labor side of politics. They survived at the whim of their opponents or more precisely only as long as it took for them to patch up their differences and eject Labor from the ministerial benches. They were, in harsh truth, governments of straw. Hogan's premierships (1927-1928 and 1929-1932) were different, especially the second. He was more securely in office, though still short of a majority in the lower house and heavily outnumbered in the Legislative Council. The task of the second Hogan government was formidable---to steer Victoria through the ravages of the depression and, like the other administrations, federal and State, that ruled during those awful years, it was destroyed by the experience. Hogan's fate was expulsion from the Victorian Labor Party for his insistence on abiding by deflationary financial orthodoxy in dealing with the economic crisis. Collectively the farce and disillusionment of Elmslie's, Prendergast's and Hogan's premierships were epitomes of Labor in its nemesis state.
- Publication type
- Book chapter
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research
- Source
- The Victorian premiers: 1856-2006 / Paul Strangio and Brian Costar (eds.), pp. 171-187
- Publication year
- 2006
- FOR Code(s)
- 160699 Political Science not elsewhere classified
- Keyword(s)
- Australia; Australian politics; Biography; Government; History; Local history; Parliament; Premiers; Politics and government; Victoria
- Publisher
- The Federation Press
- ISBN
- 9781862876019, 1862876010
- Publisher URL
- http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=1862876010
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2006 The Federation Press and contributors.
- Peer reviewed
