In 1967 the Holt government made the historic decision not to depreciate the Australian dollar in line with Britain's depreciation of the pound sterling, a custom that Australia had previously always followed, but this decision created considerable dissent within the Coalition ; Country Party leader John McEwen was particularly angered by the move — he saw it as a threat to Australia's balance of payments and feared that it would lead to increased production costs for primary industry.

The Governor-General Lord Casey sent for the Country Party leader and Coalition Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen, and he was sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister until such time as the Liberals elected a new leader.

On the morning of 18 December Country Party leader John McEwen publicly declared that neither he nor his Country Party colleagues would serve in a Coalition if the deputy Liberal leader William McMahon were elected as Liberal leader.

With McMahon unexpectedly eliminated from the contest, Senator John Gorton was elected Liberal leader on 9 January 1968, and was sworn in as Prime Minister on 10 January, replacing McEwen.

Sir John McEwen Prime Minister of Australia 1967-68.

John McEwen House, The National Party's headquarters in Canberra

Fadden's successor, Trade Minister John McEwen, took the then unusual step of declining to serve as Treasurer, believing he could better ensure that the interests of Australian primary producers were safeguarded.

The governor-general, Lord Casey, commissioned the Leader of the Country Party, John McEwen, to form a government until the Liberal Party elected a new leader.

McEwen was prime minister for 23 days, until the election of ( then Senator ) John Gorton.

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

* Prime Minister John McEwen ( Australia )

* March 29 – John McEwen, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1980 )

However, on 18 December, the Country Party leader and Deputy Prime Minister John McEwen announced that the Country Party would not continue to serve in the coalition if McMahon were to be the new Liberal leader.

However, John McEwen, interim Prime Minister and leader of the Country Party, announced that he and his party would not serve in a government led by McMahon.

Only Sir George Pearce and Sir John McEwen had longer overall ministerial service, but their terms were not continuous.

Sir John " Black Jack " McEwen, GCMG, CH ( 29 March 1900 – 20 November 1980 ), was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

John McEwen in his 30s

Sir John McEwen died in 1980, in Melbourne, aged 80, by which time Malcolm Fraser's government was abandoning McEwenite trade policies.

Bust of John McEwen by sculptor Victor Greenhalgh located in the Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

* C. J. Lloyd, ' McEwen, Sir John ( 1900 – 1980 )', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.

* John McEwen at the National Film and Sound Archive

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After Nikita Khrushchev's " secret speech " to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1956, which revealed that the Soviet party leadership had long been aware of Stalin's crimes, Thompson ( with John Saville and others ) started a dissident publication inside the CP, called The Reasoner.

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Air, Minister for Civil Aviation ( CP )

The CP had once had a good deal of support in the internecine struggles within the United Mine Workers in the 1920s, when John L. Lewis used every weapon available to defeat his rivals for union leadership while wages and working conditions in the industry grew worse.

The CP later allied itself, for a time, with John Brophy, whose " Save the Union " slate probably would have won election to national leadership in 1926 if the vote had been held democratically.

The current terminals in Saint John and Digby were constructed in 1969 by the federal government under an agreement with Canadian Pacific ( CP ) and the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.

CP owned and operated the tower until 1986, when it was sold for $ 18 million to two local Niagara hotel owners, John Gruyich of Michael's Inn and George Yerich of the Holiday Inn.

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for the Interior ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for the Interior ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for External Affairs ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Air, Minister for Civil Aviation ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Air, Minister for Civil Aviation ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Commerce and Agriculture ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Commerce and Agriculture ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Commerce and Agriculture ( CP )

* Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP )

* Rt Hon John McEwen, MP: Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Trade and Industry ( CP ) ( to 5 February 1971 ) ( CP )