The 1920s: National Priorities and Foreign Policy

National priorities and foreign policy in the 1920s. The tensions between urbanisation, industrialisation and rural development; the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and the role of Billy Hughes; membership of the League of Nations; the 1926 Imperial Conference and the Statute of Westminster and relations with Britain; the challenges of returned soldiers, the RSL and the Soldier Settlement Schemes; the rise of the Country Party and the Bruce–Page government; and the 'Men, money, markets' policy and the Empire Settlement Act of 1922.