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'Australia’s political historians have emphasised the forgettability of John Christian Watson, the leader of the world’s first national Labor government. In their recently republished A Little History of the Australian Labor Party (2024), Nick Dyrenfurth and Frank Bongiorno note that Labor’s early leaders are “ancient history” (10) to most pundits compared with more recent titans, the Hawkes and Keatings, who loom so large in the party’s self-narratives. Ross McMullin, another of the party’s leading historians, says in So Monstrous a Travesty (2004) that after four months of unstable minority government, the Watson administration “disappeared into historical obscurity” (134).' (Introduction)

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