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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 - Australia's Culture Portal (website Culture and Recreation Portal )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...
Welcome to The Courier-Mail. "Hornibrook Highway Opened" shouted The Courier-Mail, "Longest Viaduct in Australia ... Search for more stories on this topic on Newstext, our news archive service. ...
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...
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Our Prized Possessions - 3 - OUR PRIZED POSSESSIONS RARITIES REVEALED Foreword written by Steve Howell, Senior Subject Specialist; Battye The Treasures of Australiaís Great Libraries Exhibition, currently running at the Western Australian Museum, feature...
Interview with Irene Greenwood [sound recording] / [Interviewed by Nancy Lutton] Irene Greenwood, nee Driver, talks about Bessie Rischbieth and the women's movement, especially Women's Service Guilds and the Australian Federation of Women voters. Intervi...
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Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1953 1st.ed. illus with e/paper maps, text illus. Sydney, Angus & Robertson 1954 or.cl. 8vo. pp.VII.254. good copy, almost fine....
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