In November 1945, Prime Minister Ben Chifley appointed a Royal Commission under Justice George Ligertwood.

In 1942 the Treasurer, Ben Chifley, appointed him Director of Rationing, and in 1943 made him Director-General of the Department of Post-war Reconstruction, a new ministry which Chifley held in addition to the Treasury.

In January 1949 Chifley appointed Coombs Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, the most important post in the regulation of the Australian economy.

In addition, he was an ALP appointed member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation board, member of the ALP associated Chifley Research Centre's Knowledge Nation taskforce and a former member of the ALP.

Forde served for eight days until Ben Chifley was elected leader.

Chifley was then sworn in, replacing Forde, who became Australia's shortest-serving prime minister.

He was briefly succeeded as Prime Minister by Frank Forde, then a week later, after a party ballot, by Ben Chifley.

Chifley won, but Forde was elected Deputy Leader once more.

* In 1948 the High Court of Australia found that the Chifley government's legislation to nationalise Australia's private banks was unconstitutional.

The PBS was introduced by Labor Prime Minister Ben Chifley as part of wider plans to create a British-style National Health Service, but the High Court of Australia soon ruled most of Chifley's health care plans as unconstitutional.

The suburb contains two schools, Chifley Public School and Matraville Sports High School, and a number of preschool centres.

The closest high schools are South Sydney High School in Maroubra, Matraville Sports High School in Chifley, and Marist College Pagewood in Maroubra.

The First Chifley Ministry was the thirty-third Australian Commonwealth ministry, and held office from 13 July 1945 to 1 November 1946.

The Second Chifley Ministry was the thirty-fourth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and held office from 1 November 1946 to 19 December 1949.

In 1941, Prime Minister Robert Menzies stated that there should be no restrictions on private citizens using the Blue Ensign on land, and in 1947 Prime Minister Ben Chifley reaffirmed this position, but it wasn't until the passage of the Flags Act 1953 that the restriction on civilians flying the Blue Ensign was officially lifted, after which use of the Red Ensign on land became a rarity.

The Chifley Labor government saw this as a Communist challenge to its position in the labour movement, and used the army and strikebreakers to break the strike.

In 1941, Prime Minister Robert Menzies stated that there should be no restrictions on private citizens using the Blue Ensign on land and, in 1947, Prime Minister Ben Chifley reaffirmed this position but it wasn't until the passage of the Flags Act 1953 that the restriction on civilians ' flying the Blue Ensign was officially lifted after which use of the Red Ensign on land became a rarity.

Passing 113 Acts, the 1910-13 government was a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s under John Curtin and Ben Chifley.

He was the only deputy Labor leader who served under three leaders ( Scullin, Curtin and Chifley ) until Jenny Macklin ( Crean, Latham and Beazley, 2001 – 06 ).

He was elected as a member of the Australian House of Representatives at the 1984 election, representing the Division of Chifley in western Sydney, New South Wales, for the Australian Labor Party until his retirement before the 2010 election.

Luchetti remained active in the Labor movement however and following the death of Chifley in 1951, Luchetti won Labor pre-selection for the Macquarie electorate and the subsequent by-election and served as the member for Macquarie until his retirement in 1975.

* Chifley Cave: Discovered in 1880 and with electric lighting installed almost immediately, the Chifley Cave was known as the Left Imperial Cave until 1952, when it was renamed in honour of the then recently-deceased former Prime Minister Ben Chifley, who grew up in nearby Bathurst.

Curtin died in office in 1945 and was succeeded by Ben Chifley.

In 1947, Chifley announced that he intended to nationalise Australia's private banks, arousing intense middle-class opposition which Menzies successfully exploited.

Chifley died a few months after the 1951 election.

After an initial loss to Labor at the 1946 election, Menzies led the Liberals to victory at the 1949 election against the incumbent Labor government led by Curtin's successor, Ben Chifley, and the Coalition stayed in office for a record 23 years.

* June 13 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1885 )

* September 22 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1951 )

Many of the new suburbs were named after Australian politicians, such as Barton, Deakin, Reid, Braddon, Curtin, Chifley and Parkes.

Lang also restored the seniority and conditions to New South Wales Government Railways and New South Wales Government Tramways workers who had been sacked or demoted after the General Strike of 1917, including Ben Chifley, a future Prime Minister of Australia.

This action split the NSW Labor Party in two-Lang's followers became known as Lang Labor, while Scullin's supporters, led by Chifley, became known in NSW as Federal Labor.

Jack Lang's victory in Reid was unexpected ; he was elected on a minority of the votes thanks to preferences given to him by the Liberal Party In federal parliament, he is often cited as being the most effective of the opposition to the government of his old rival, Prime Minister Ben Chifley, despite voting for the latter's Bank Act in 1947.

Curtin died in 1945 and was succeeded by Ben Chifley, who retained government at the 1946 election with over 54 percent of the two-party vote and a continued Senate majority.

At the leadership ballot on 13 July, he contested the leadership with Ben Chifley and Norman Makin.

There was no certainty that the Chifley Government would not be treated likewise, and the opposition was opposed to government ownership.

Wake stood as a Liberal candidate in the 1949 Australian federal election for the Sydney seat of Barton, running against Dr. Herbert Evatt, then Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney-General and Minister for External Affairs in the Ben Chifley Labor government.

While Chifley lost government to Robert Menzies, Wake recorded a 13 percent swing against Evatt, with Evatt retaining the seat with 53. 2 per cent of the vote on a two-party preferred basis.

* Ben Chifley ( 1945 – 49 ), who preferred the Kurrajong Hotel, where many Labor politicians of the era stayed, and where he later died.

When Curtin died in 1945, the Duke appointed Frank Forde as prime minister.

Thomas Chard, alias Tyblis, the last Abbot, was Suffragan Bishop to the Bishop of Exeter from 1508 and was appointed Vicar of Thorncombe in 1529, 10 years before he left Forde Abbey at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.

On 9 November 1189 Richard appointed Coutances to a commission tasked with deciding the dispute between Baldwin of Forde and the monks of his cathedral chapter over Baldwin's plan to create a church dedicated to Thomas Becket, the murdered Archbishop of Canterbury, and to staff this church not with monks, but with canons.

Forde was only the second woman to be appointed to the position of governor of an Australian state and the first to take on the role in Queensland.

In 1998, Forde was appointed to chair the Commission of Inquiry into Abuse of Children in Queensland Institutions.

Forde was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1993 and is a Dame of Grace in the Order of St. John of Jerusalem.