Harold Holt

...from tunnels, lookouts and fortifications to walk through aEUR" is all here. You can also walk the beach where former prime minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967. The park is one kilometre from Portsea. Bike hire costs from $16.80 for...

In this article: Port Phillip Bay, Melbourne, Bottlenose Dolphin, World War I, and Bellarine Peninsula

...owner of the Tivoli theatre circuit. For several years in the early 1930s he was based in London. Harold Holt's parents divorced in 1918. His mother died in 1924, when he was sixteen, and he did not attend her funeral. A lack of...

In this article: Harold Edward Holt, Robert Menzies, Lyndon B. Johnson, Australia, Coalition, ALP, Country Party, Liberal Party of Australia, Tom Frame, and John McEwen

Even now, he has only racked up 11 years as an MP. John Howard, Paul Keating, Malcolm Fraser, Sir William McMahon, John Gorton, Harold Holt and Sir Robert Menzies all had at least a decade of parliamentary service and years in the cabinet...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, John Howard, Peter Costello, Bob Hawke, ACTU, Paul Keating, Trademark, Climate change, Medicare, and ALP

...a reflection of John Howard's own personal values, shared by no other significant Liberal leader. Alfred Deakin, Robert Menzies, Harold Holt, John Gorton, Malcolm Fraser were all happy to describe themselves simply as liberals. Howard was the...

In this article: Liberalism, Alfred Deakin, Liberal Party of Australia, Conservatism, John Howard, John Stuart Mill, Ideology, and Isaiah Berlin

...it takes to win. The war is looking ever more like his Vietnam. Rudd will not make an "all the way with LBJ" blunder the way Harold Holt did in the 1960s. But supporting the US alliance is as important to Australia now as it was then.

In this article: Barack Obama, Afghanistan, US, Al-Qaeda, Kevin Rudd, Australia, Stanley McChrystal, Taliban, NATO, and Robert Gates

...she will join a short list of Liberals who have held Higgins since its creation in 1949. Host to two Liberal prime ministers, Harold Holt and John Gorton, a nobody named Roger Shipton and then Australia's longest serving treasurer, Higgins has...

In this article: Peter Costello, Labor Party, Kevin Rudd, Small business, Liberal Party, and Ayn Rand

He legally adopted her children and gave them his surname. Tom Frame 's biography The Life and Death of Harold Holt reveals that Holt was the twins' biological father. Harold Holt had been a member of Robert Menzies' Cabinet continuously...

In this article: Zara Bate, Jeff Bate, Robert Menzies, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Liberal Party, and Tom Frame

...Opperman, the international cycling champion who served as immigration minister under prime ministers Robert Menzies and Harold Holt. Opposition frontbencher Tony Abbott welcomed Mr Alexander's entry into the Bradfield preselection...

In this article: Tony Abbott, Liberal Party, Sydney, Sydney Morning Herald, Hubert Opperman, and Robert Menzies

...War I. For the next 17 years it was Bob Menzies,born in 1894, who dominated Australian politics. It was not until 1966 with Harold Holt, that Australia had a prime minister born in the 20th century. Holt was succeeded by two other...

In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, John Howard, Malcolm Fraser, Tony Blair, Edward Gough Whitlam, Bob Hawke, and Paul Keating

...Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) was a Knox class frigate of the US Navy named after the Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. Harold E. Holt was built by Todd Pacific Shipyards, Los Angeles Division in San Pedro, California, laid down May 11,...

In this article: Harold E. Holt, USS Harold E. Holt, US Navy, Piraz, Meritorious Unit Commendation, Mayaguez incident, Knox class frigate, and Todd Pacific Shipyards