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in his first year and winning many academic prizes. In his second year he was employed part-time as an assistant teacher at the school, and took up after school tutoring of fellow students. In
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Deborah "Daisy" Jacobs, daughter of a tobacco merchant, at her parents' home in St Kilda on 18 July 1888. They had two daughters, one born in 1890 and the other in 1892. The daughters were Marjorie Isaacs Cohen who died in 1968 and was survived by a son (Thomas B. Cohen), and Nancy
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December 1930, and he was sworn in on 22 January 1931. He was the first Australian-born governor-general. Thus Isaacs agreed to a reduction in salary and conducted the office with great frugality. He gave up his official residences in Sydney and Melbourne and
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An obstruction to the consent of the Arabs to the peaceful and prosperous settlement in
Palestine of hundreds of thousands of suffering European Jews, the victims of Nazi atrocities; and provocative of Muslim antagonism within and beyond the Empire, and consequently a danger to its integrity and
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some of the most sacred associations of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths. Besides their inherent injustice to others these demands would, I believe, seriously and detrimentally affect the general position of Jews throughout the world".
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government. He was one of a group of backbenchers pushing for more radical policies and he earned the dislike of many of his colleagues through what they saw as his aloofness and rather self-righteous attitude to politics.
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Waugh, John (2011). "An Australian in the Palace of the King-Emperor: James Scullin, George V and the Appointment of the First Australian-Born Governor-General".
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at the school from then until 1873. Isaacs was next employed as an assistant teacher at the Beechworth State School, the successor to the Common school.
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1794:(1998). ""A Gross Discourtesy to His Majesty": The Campaign Within Australia, 1930β31, Against Sir Isaac Isaacs' Appointment as Governor-General".
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Lee, Godfrey S. (1985). "The battle of the scholars: the debate between Sir Isaac Isaacs and Julius Stone over Zionism during World War II".
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Palestine : peace and prosperity or war and destruction? Political Zionism : undemocratic, unjust, dangerous
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in 1880, and soon became one of Melbourne's best-known barristers. He was elected to the
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1879:20th Century Press Archives
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1161:The Riverina Transport case
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1694:Cowen, Zelman (1993).
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1185:Isaacs, Isaac (1943),
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1546:Obituaries Australia
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690:Victorian gold rush
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140:The Lord Stonehaven
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1809:Federal Law Review
1670:"Australian stamp"
1635:The Canberra Times
1526:The London Gazette
1506:The London Gazette
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