Editing Chris Watson (section)

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*[https://www.naa.gov.au/explore-collection/australias-prime-ministers/chris-watson/during-office The last page of a secret despatch] from Australia's Governor-General to Britain's Colonial Secretary 23 April 1904, detailing circumstances that created the first Labor Prime Minister in the British Empire (and the world).
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