Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Stanley Bruce

Stanley Bruce
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 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/October 7, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 21:41, 24 September 2013‎ (UTC)



Stanley Bruce (1883-1967) was the eighth Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1923 to 1929. Born into a wealthy Melbourne family, Bruce was a barrister and businessman before serving in the Gallipoli Campaign of World War I. Returning home wounded, he was drafted into the Nationalist Party and elected to parliament in 1918. Bruce served as treasurer in the government of Billy Hughes before replacing him as prime minister in 1923. Bruce's administration was ambitious: Federal government operations were significantly expanded and reformed; and moved to the new capital of Canberra. His 'men, money and markets' scheme attempted to rapidly increase Australia's population and economic development through increased immigration, loans and trade with the United Kingdom. But his heavy-handed response to industrial unrest and attempts to overhaul labour laws saw his government defeated in a landslide in 1929. After politics, Bruce became intimately involved with the League of Nations, including as president of its council, until the outbreak of World War II. After the war, he was a leading advocate of development aid and a founder of the Food and Agriculture Organization, chairing its council from 1947 to 1951. He was later the first chancellor of the Australian National University and remained a prominent elder statesman until his death in 1967.


 * Support as nominator. Recently promoted and my first FA. No major dates coming up, but this year was his 130th birthday and 90th anniversary of his accession to the prime-ministership. Unus Multorum (talk) 15:45, 24 September 2013 (UTC)