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In April 1920 Hughes dispatched Watt to London on a financial mission. Watt was in poor health, and his suspicion that Hughes was trying to get him out of the way was aggravated by Hughes's habit of communicating directly with the
British government over the head of Watt, who was supposedly his
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Melbourne business circles and shared the dissatisfaction that most conservatives felt at the increasingly erratic and autocratic way Hughes ran the government. He also disliked Hughes personally and felt that Hughes had not acknowledged his efforts as Acting Prime
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in August 1919. It was during his time as
Treasurer that Watt opined that the war effort was best served by "...putting the country into the hands of a Committee of Public Safety. It is doubtful if a democracy can fight a great autocracy." During this period he also had the portfolio of
462:, where Watt began his education at the Errol Street State School (now North Melbourne Primary School). He left school at a young age, finding work as a newsboy and later as a clerk at an ironmongery and a tannery. In 1888 he began attending night classes in accountancy at the
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Florence Carrighan in 1894, but was widowed two years later when she died in childbirth. He remarried in 1907 to Emily Helena Seismann, with whom he had two sons and three daughters. He was disabled by a stroke in 1937 and died at his home in
673:, but when Hughes cabled that Watt was not to agree to anything without consulting him, Watt complained that he was being treated like "a telegraph messenger." After an acrimonious exchange of cables, Watt resigned as Treasurer and returned to Australia.
466:. He qualified as an accountant and eventually became a partner in a "hay and corn store". Watt was secretary of the North Melbourne Debating Club and served on the executive of the Australasian Federation League of Victoria. He was prominent in the
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Australian members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
885:. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, Australia. p. 24.
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Liberal Party (1922) members of the Parliament of Australia
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1001:(M.A. Thesis). University of New South Wales.
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692:. As a consolation prize Watt was elected
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953:"Mr. Watt M.H.R.: To Resign Shortly"
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959:. No. 3 July 1929. Melbourne
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998:W.A. Watt: a Political Biography
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979:Jumping over the wheel
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1274:Sir Littleton Groom
1202:Premier of Victoria
1175:Premier of Victoria
1026:Victoria: A History
977:Blainey, Geoffrey,
927:"Mr. Watt's Future"
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435:from 1923 to 1926.
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158:Premier of Victoria
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1160:Political offices
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