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Hon W A Holman (Premier NSW) Adelaide May 1916

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State Library of Victoria
[Acc No: H3929 (detail)]
(Detail from 'Premiers' conference, Adelaide, May, 1916'.)

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Holman, William Arthur

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World War I and the Peace Society in Sydney

The many wartime tensions between members of the New South Wales Peace Society was, in microcosm, one small example of the way in which the World War I split and deeply divided Sydney. Between 1914 and 1918, political, pacifist and patriotic tensions between the Society's members fractured this once united group.

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Holman, William Arthur

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Labor politician who qualified in law after entering parliament and practised in the field of industrial law before becoming a minister in 1910, and Premier from 1913-20. In 1916 he formed a non-Labor government after the party split over the issue of conscription.