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Queensland State Archives - 1972 Cabinet Documents

A report by Jonathan Richards, Consultant Historian

Introduction

Cabinet submissions and decisions are considered within a historical context, and against a background of broader movements in Australian society during the early 1970s.

Cabinet was, in theory, the ‘supreme decision-making body’ but also the ‘apex of the party system’, and these two factors, as this report shows, sometimes caused conflict to emerge between Ministers and political organisations 1.

 

Last Updated: Thursday, 20 May 2004