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Commonwealth Line

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The Commonwealth Line was a shipping company owned and operated by the Australian federal government between 1916 and 1928. [1]

13 relations: Aberdeen Line, Angus & Robertson, Australian Labor Party, Australian National Line, Billy Hughes, Eminent domain, Government of Australia, H. H. Asquith, Percy Stewart, Stanley Bruce, Tramp trade, White Star Line, William Watson (Australian politician).

Aberdeen Line

The Aberdeen Line was a shipping company founded in 1825 by George Thompson of Aberdeen to take sailing vessels to the St. Lawrence, carrying some passengers and returning with cargoes of timber.

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Angus & Robertson

Angus & Robertson (A&R) was a major Australian bookseller, book publisher and book printer.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP, also Labor, was Labour before 1912) is a political party in Australia.

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Australian National Line

The Australian National Line (ANL) was an Australian Government owned overseas and coastal shipping line that operated between 1956 and 1998, when the container shipping operations and naming rights were bought by CMA CGM.

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Billy Hughes

William Morris Hughes, (25 September 186228 October 1952) was an Australian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1915 to 1923.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain (United States, Philippines), land acquisition (Singapore), compulsory purchase (United Kingdom, New Zealand, Ireland), resumption (Hong Kong, Uganda), resumption/compulsory acquisition (Australia), or expropriation (France, Italy, Mexico, South Africa, Canada, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, Chile, Denmark, Sweden) is the power of a state, provincial, or national government to take private property for public use.

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Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

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H. H. Asquith

Herbert Henry Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith, (12 September 1852 – 15 February 1928), generally known as H. H. Asquith, was a British statesman of the Liberal Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916.

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Percy Stewart

Percy Gerald Stewart (18 October 1885 – 15 October 1931) was an Australian politician.

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Stanley Bruce

Stanley Melbourne Bruce, 1st Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, (15 April 1883 – 25 August 1967) was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1923 to 1929.

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Tramp trade

A boat or ship engaged in the tramp trade is one which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

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White Star Line

The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company.

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William Watson (Australian politician)

William Watson (22 October 1864 – 21 December 1938) was an Australian politician.

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Redirects here:

Australian Commonwealth Line, Australian Commonwealth Line of Steamers, Commonwealth Government Line, Commonwealth Government Line of Steamers, Commonwealth Shipping Line.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Line

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