Portrait of a Nation

William Morris (‘Billy’) Hughes

HUGHES ACT 2605

The Canberra suburb of Hughes was named after William Morris Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923. The street names in Hughes reflect the suburb theme ‘World War I armed services personnel and contemporaries of William Hughes’.

Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes
Portrait of Mr W.M. Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia 1916
by J.H. Barratt & Co. Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent
glazed ceramic tile