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Henry Bournes Higgins

Portrait of Henry Bournes Higgins (1851-1929). Victorian federation leader and President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court. In 1907 Higgins handed downed the Harvester Judgement, which set the first federally arbitrated wages standard in Australia.

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National Library of Australia, obj-136708449

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