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Article: Bruce Duncan. Crusade or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia.(Book Review)
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- Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
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- January 1, 2001
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BRUCE DUNCAN. Crusade or Conspiracy? Catholics and the Anti-Communist Struggle in Australia. UNSW Press, Sydney, 2001; ppb; xii + 491 pages; ISBN 0 86840 731 3.
Bert Evatt, Labor's Federal leader of the time, should bear the prime responsibility for the 1950s Labor split which had the unintended consequence of ensuring the long term political success of Robert Menzies and the Liberal-Country Party Coalition.
The 1950s Split is still remembered today, almost half a century after the event. Labor divided nationally, but the division had its biggest impact in Victoria and Queensland. Less well known, outside Catholic circles at least, is that the divisions ...