William Morris 'Billy' Hughes est un homme d'État australien. Il fut le septième Premier ministre d'Australie, le député australien ayant eu la plus longue carrière parlementaire et une des figures les plus marquantes de l'histoire politique australienne. Pendant les 51 ans de sa carrière parlementaire, il changea cinq fois de parti , fut exclu de trois d'entre eux et fut le représentant de quatre circonscriptions dans deux états différents. Wikipedia
“Australia was born on the shores of Gallipoli.”
Undated
Source: Inscribed in the Australian War Memorial, quoted in Joan Beaumont, ‘'Unitedly we have fought': imperial loyalty and the Australian war effort’, International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-), Vol. 90, No. 2, The Great War (March 2014), p. 399
“We are loyal to the Empire first and foremost because we are of the British race.”
Speech during the 1917 federal election campaign (c. March 1917), quoted in Neville Kingsley Meaney, Australia and World Crisis, 1914-1923: Volume 2 (2009), p. 202
Speech to the Imperial Conference of 1921, quoted in Correlli Barnett, The Collapse of British Power (Eyre Methuen, 1972), p. 177
Speech in Cardiff (20 July 1918), quoted in The Times (22 July 1918), p. 3
Had she achieved world power, would our fate have differed from that of Russia or Rumania? Would she then have talked about a League of Nations?
Speech in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester (26 August 1918), quoted in The Times (27 August 1918), p. 8
“That party will go down to all time as the party that failed Australia in her hour of need.”
Source: Regarding the Australian Labor Party, as quoted in a speech https://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1917-billy-hughes during the 1917 federal election campaign (27 March 1917)
