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James Henry Scullin, the hard-jawed Laborite who became Prime Minister of Australia on a platform pledging protection for the Dominion's "infant industries," fulfilled his pledge last week with a wallop staggering to foreign (including English) exporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Scullin Tariff | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part of the Empire to enter our ports duty free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Empire Free Trade'' | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

There were not enough chairs so some of the Cabinet sat on camp stools. They had met in the plain, business-like office of Australia's new Labor Prime Minister, quiet; vigorous James Henry Scullin (TIME, Nov. 5). After a long, tense session last week they jolted all Australia by announcing suspension of compulsory military training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Compulsion Suspended | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

...hours weekly, attend camp one week each summer for field instruction. There is no regular army. A skeleton force of 1,582 instructors is retained as a "permanent" army. To defend the continent last year there were just 45,273 citizen soldiers potentially under arms.* Said Prime Minister Scullin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Compulsion Suspended | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

With his trunks unpacked, one of the first official acts of Prime Minister Scullin was to lead his new Cabinet one by one before the omnivorous eye and ear of the talking cinema. Mindful of British and U. S. audiences he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: In Steps Scullin | 11/4/1929 | See Source »

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