{"id":1769,"date":"2009-11-24T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2009-11-24T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T06:19:38","slug":"tasmanian-joseph-lyons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/11\/24\/tasmanian-joseph-lyons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian Joseph Lyons"},"content":{"rendered":"

On our morning walk along the idyllic Devonport foreshore some weeks ago, the Director of Ministry Services directed my attention to a fine bust of Joseph and Enid Lyons. The erudite Director inspired my interest and when I saw the November Quadrant magazine featuring,\u00a0\u00a0‘The Annus Mirabilis<\/em> of a Subdued Radical: Joseph Lyons in 1931′, I sprang into action and have now read a fascinating account of this outstanding Tasmanian’s year of conscientious struggle and change.\u00a0Quadrant magazine can be purchased online<\/a> or like me\u00a0at your newsagent for $8.50.\u00a0Some wonderful quotes,<\/p>\n

“Lyons now also commended to a wider audience his old Tasmanian practices of consultation and consensus (<\/strong>my emphasis-how desperately we need these practices):<\/p>\n

We have to get together because the problems ahead of us are difficult, and we can only solve them by getting together … I hope that policy [of consultation] will be applied to Australia. We are allaAustralians and the problem is ours. When we get together those sharp divisions which ahve taken place in the past will exist\u00a0no longer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Joseph Lyons (1879-1939)\u00a0had an amazing political career as Labour Party member and Premier of Tasmania, then a founder of the United Australia Party\u00a0and Prime Minister of Australia.\u00a0 A fuller biographical sketch here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (TCCI)\u00a0last week announced the appointment of a most meritorious Tasmanian as CEO.\u00a0 Earlier in the year the TCCI in seeking to further its role\u00a0 initiated an annual “Joseph Lyons Memorial Lecture”. The Quadrant magazine article comments,<\/p>\n

\u00a0The lecture was delivered\u00a0by an “internet visionary” and dealt with Tasmania’s prospective broadband roll-out, a curious but appropriate choice given that Treasurer Lyons had allowed for the initial connection of his native island to the mainland by submarine telephone cable in the 1933-34 budget. The TCCI has thus revived the Tasmanian consensus of the 1920s, but this should only be the beginning of a broader commemoration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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