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The Great Depression - Australia's Culture Portal

The Great Depression (1929–32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Even before the devastating stock market crash on Wall Street (the centre of stock market trading in New York, United States of America), unemployment in Austral...

Baby boomers - Australia's Culture Portal

People born during this period became known as baby boomers. Combined with an increase in European migration to Australia, the baby boomers changed Australia (and the world) in the second half of the 20th century. Australian journalist Mark Davis argues...

Australian political cartooning - Australia's Culture Portal

Australia has a strong and vibrant history of political cartooning. Since the 1830s, when political cartoons were first featured in Australian newspapers, they have provided satirical, witty or humorous comment on political and public affairs, social cus...

Australian farms and farming communities - Australia's Culture Portal

Many Australians are directly or indirectly involved in farming. For those Australians not involved with farming, the country's recent rural and agricultural history still has strong links to the heritage and culture of Australia. Wheat and other grain ...

Australian food and drink - Australia's Culture Portal

Before white settlement, Aboriginal people survived off the native plants and animals of the Australian environment for thousands of years. Bush foods such as berries, roots and nectars were a vital part of the aboriginal diet in many areas. In the late...

The Holden car in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

The Holden name first appeared in Australia in the 1850s with J A Holden's leather and saddlery business in Adelaide, South Australia. In 1924, the company was renamed Holden's Motor Body Builders and became the exclusive supplier of American car manufac...

Melbourne Cup - Australia's Culture Portal

Photograph courtesy of the Victoria Racing Club. Melbourne Cup Day is Australia's most famous Tuesday. At 3.00 pm AEST, on the first Tuesday in November, Australians everywhere stop for one of the world's most famous horse races - the Melbourne Cup....

Theatre in Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and developed over time, shaped by local and international artistic movements, events and trends. Australian theatre history incorporates the stories of many actors, entrepreneurs,...

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Book Section - Anti political political thought. -Non/ Labor reactions against party politics during the Great Depression in New South Wales - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne -Non/ Labor reactions against party politics during the Great Depression in New South Wales Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1981, pp. ...

The Great Depression - australian screen   (website australianscreen )

This newsreel segment begins with a title card which sums it up nicely: ,Äòslums, illegal gambling and SP bookmaking is a real and vital problem confronting the governments of Australia today,Äô. The children living in this environment, according to the ...

Journal Article - Gwen Green (nee Lowenthal) 1900-1988 confronting the Great Depression head-on [A pioneer Jewish woman.] - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Gwen Green (nee Lowenthal) 1900-1988 confronting the Great Depression head-on [A pioneer Jewish woman.] Country Women's Association of Ne...

Thesis - Feminism and class: a study of two Sydney women's organisations during the Great Depression and Second World War - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Feminism and class: a study of two Sydney women's organisations during the Great Depression and Second World War Council of Action for Eq...

The Great Depression - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Labor Prime Minister James Scullin was Australia's first Catholic Prime Minister and the first to be of Irish descent. With Lyons as leader, the new UAP contributed to the demise of the Scullin Labor government and Lyons became Prime Minister on 6 Januar...

great depression : Corker Magazine   (website Corker Magazine )

Angus Paterson chats to Huw Murdoch from Melbourne band Plastic Palace Alice about their debut album The Great Depression. Listen to the exclusive Corker Radio interview here. Sign up to receive breaking news > as well as receive other site updates!...

AdelaideNow... Readers' Comments: Australian film in a great depression   (website The Advertiser )

Assaulting audiences and assuming they're stupid is an Australian film past time. One word can describe Australian films, crap. Australian films are either about some outback drama featuring idiotic yobbos, or some decaying urban drama, featuring violen...

AdelaideNow... Australian film in a great depression   (website The Advertiser )

This year has seen a slew of great films released - Samson & Delilah, Beautiful Kate, Disgrace, Last Ride, My Year Without Sex, Balibo and Mary and Max. And research from the Film Finance Corporation (now Screen Australia) found that while most Australia...

WARREN FAHEY - LEAN TIMES AND MEAN TIMES ON THE HUNGRY MILE GREAT DEPRESSION CD - Order Online from GumTree Music   (website Gum Tree Music )

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Historic Houses Trust - Skint! Making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

Making do in the Great Depression explores the spirit and flavour of life in Sydney in the 1930s: the community spirit and political activism, everyday life and key events and personalities of the period. It brings together evocative images, objects, ora...

HHT - Skint! Making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

How did people in Sydney survive the tough times of the 1930s? Making do in the Great Depression explores the spirit and flavour of life in Sydney in the 1930s: the community spirit and political activism, everyday life and key events and personalities o...

HHT - Skint! Making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

How did people in Sydney survive the tough times of the 1930s? Making do in the Great Depression explores the spirit and flavour of life in Sydney in the 1930s: the community spirit and political activism, everyday life and key events and personalities o...