By car, bus, tram and dray Australia's citizens flocked to Australia's polls last week to elect a new Parliament. The large turnout did not mean an equally large interest in the election, but merely an effort to avoid the $10 fine imposed on Australians entitled to vote who fail to do so.
When returns came in Conservatives breathed with relief. After a campaign in which tousle-haired Joseph Aloysius Lyons, "the Honest Man from Tasmania," had flown over 7,000 miles in a plane branded FAITH IN AUSTRALIA, he found himself still Premier with his Cabinet...
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