Stanley Bruce, Australia's High Commissioner to London, was delegated by his government sit in on meetings of Churchill's War Cabinet.
Former Treasurer Stanley Bruce was chosen as leader, and quickly entered into a coalition with the Country Party.
Australia had accrued substantial debt, mainly from Britain's independent banking sector, by the late 1920s - partly as a result of Prime Minister Bruce's
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He was one of five original members of the VFU in the House of Representatives and took a large part in negotiating the formation of the Bruce–Page coalition government in late 1922, and he became Minister for Works and Railways in the resulting ministry.