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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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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...

Historic Houses Trust - 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? It brings together evocative images, objects, oral histories and film to help us understand the story of Sydney in the Great Depression. Sydney school children line up for free soup during t...

ABC Unleashed - 17/03/2008: A Great Depression crisis   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

The US banking system and capital markets are facing their biggest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Last week, the President's Working Party on Financial Markets (originally set up after the 1987 crash) issued a report calling for root and...

Tasmania and the Great Depression - ABC Hobart (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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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...

ABC Local: Australia Wide - 20th Century   (website Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) )

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The Great Depression: America, 1929-1941 (Robert McElvaine)   (website Danny Yee's Book Reviews )

McElvaine's account of the Great Depression in the United States is a straightforward narrative, largely chronological. McElvaine also attempts to place the Depression in the broader currents of US history, with a particular focus on large-scale, long-te...

Print Article: Learning from the Great Depression   (website The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) )

By contrast, in the lead-up to the Depression we experienced no real growth for five years, with the unemployment rate rising to 7 per cent. (Actually, many Depression scholars have concluded that the decision of most countries to return to the gold stan...

Learning from the Great Depression   (website The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) )

By contrast, in the lead-up to the Depression we experienced no real growth for five years, with the unemployment rate rising to 7 per cent. (In those days, the Commonwealth Bank was a government-owned trading bank and the central bank.) London banks pre...

Random House Australia - Book Details - AUSTRALIAN BATTLERS REMEMBER: THE GREAT DEPRESSION   (website Random House Australia )

From prophylactic teeth extractions, to tracking square and jumping trains, ordinary and renowned Australians share their stories of surviving the Great Depression. In AUSTRALIAN BATTLERS REMEMBER: The Great Depression he has unearthed humorous, touching...

Penguin Books Australia - The Great Depression Ahead: How to Prosper in the Crash that Follows theGreatest Boom in History by Dent Harry S   (website Penguin Books Australia )

From the author of the international bestseller The Roaring 2000s comes a new book that predicts a major economic crash and offers advice on how to survive it. Harry S. Dent has predicted changes in the market with uncanny accuracy for over a decade. > &...