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'John Christian Watson, born in 1867 in Chile, was a plain-spoken and self-effacing man who eschewed controversy. In 1904, he became Australia’s first Labor Prime Minister, but the Party lacked a parliamentary majority, and the Government lasted less than four months.'  (Introduction)

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