Air disaster Canberra : the plane crash that destroyed a government / Andrew Tink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tink, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Menzies, Robert, 1894-1978.

Menzies, Robert.

Aircraft accidents--Australia--1940--Political aspects.

Aircraft accidents.

Australia--Politics and government--1901-1945.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (458 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, NSW, Australia : New South, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a Hudson bomber - the A16-97 - carrying ten people, including three cabinet ministers, crashed into a ridge near Canberra. In the ghastly inferno that followed the crash, the nation lost its key war leaders. Over the next twelve months, it became clear that the passing of Geoffrey Street, Sir Henry Gullett and James Fairbairn had destabilized Robert Menzies' wartime government. As a direct but delayed consequence, John Curtin became prime minister in October 1941. Controversially, t

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; Prologue; Part I: The political rise of the Anzac generation; 1. Nose first; 2. Some had fought; 3. Others hadn't; 4. Anzac generation into Parliament; 5. Menzies backs Lyons; 6. Fairbairn, Menzies and Street enter Federal Parliament; 7. Fairbairn, Gullett and Street back Menzies; 8. Australia's leadership malaise; 9. Menzies' resignation; 10. Menzies trumps Page; 11. Menzies PM; 12. Menzies' right-hand men; 13. The war cabinet; 14. Cincinnatus; 15. France falls; 16. The flying MP

17. Minister for civil aviation18. Minister for air; 19. Flight Lieutenant R.E. (Bob) Hitchcock; Part II: The air disaster; 20. The Lockheed Hudson; 21. Laverton; 22. Laverton to Essendon; 23. Essendon; 24. Essendon to eternity; 25. A dreadful calamity; 26. The Canberra inquests; 27. The air force inquiries; 28. The judicial inquiry: The players; 29. The judicial inquiry: The hearing; 30. The judicial inquiry: The findings; Part III: A wartime government destroyed; 31. The political fallout; 32. A hung Parliament; 33. Menzies goes to London; 34. Menzies digs in overseas

35. The prime ministerial stand in36. Menzies returns; 37. A political lynching; 38. Coles brings down the government; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781742241425

1742241425

9781742246314

1742246311

OCLC:

840119775