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The Great Depression - Australia's Culture PortalThe 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 Australia was...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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...
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....
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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The Great Depression - australian screen (website australianscreen )Four women recall the hardship of raising children during a period of mass unemployment. Women, led by the Militant Women s Group (MWG), collected food and money and explained to neighbours the reason for the picket. The children living in this environme...
The Great Depression (1929-32) was a time of extreme hardship for people in Australia. Labor Prime Minister James Scullin was Australia's first Catholic Prime Minister and the first to be of Irish descent. James Scullin's Labor government, with its inte...
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...
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Four women recall the hardship of raising children during a period of mass unemployment. Women, led by the Militant Women s Group (MWG), collected food and money and explained to neighbours the reason for the picket. The children living in this environme...
Professor Geoffrey Blainey presents his view of Australia, past and present. Professor Blainey has had a distinguished career as an academic and a prolific writer of academic papers, newspaper articles and books. Like fellow historian Manning Clarke, Pr...
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Hamilton Webber in a principal role. A young clergyman, Cyril Maitland (John Longden) falls in love with a beautiful young vamp, Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), in a seaside town. W...
He outlines his association,Äôs vision for the wealth of the nation through the ,Äòabolition of the capitalistic system,Äô and a ,Äòrevolution by referendum,Äô. The clip ends with a map of Australia over which are superimposed the words ,ÄòRevolution by R...
Four women recall the hardship of raising children during a period of mass unemployment. Channa Dassanayaka is from Sri Lanka and came to Australia when his mother, who was a politician, thought that things were becoming too dangerous in Sri Lanka and se...
In this clip, filmed in 1948, a man from Snowy River swaps his horse and his bushman s life for a bulldozer and employment on the Snowy Mountains Scheme. The process of cherry picker rotation of muck trains, and the cherry picker co-ordination with the d...
A double-decker bus then comes out onto the street and drives past the camera. The footage of the double decker bus seen here in this clip was probably filmed at the Waddington Body Works depot in Granville, Sydney. The company produced Sydney,Äôs first...
Dr HC Coombs, the great Australian public servant and advisor to six Australian prime ministers, talks about whether it,Äôs possible to be an entirely neutral public servant. Dr Coombs was enormously influenced by John Maynard Keynes and spent his career ...
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