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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...

The changing face of modern Australia - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Migration Museum, History Trust of South Australia. The hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in Australia after the First World War greatly influenced Australia becoming a modern society. Image courtesy of the Australian War ...

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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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!...

Bold bid to build bridge to Redcliffe during the Great Depression | Courier Mail   (website The Courier-Mail )

THE Redcliffe Peninsula had been Brisbane's holiday playground since the 1880s, tantalisingly close and visible from the northern Brisbane suburb of Sandgate across Bramble Bay at the mouth of the Pine River. By car from Brisbane it was a circuitous route...

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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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...

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

> Skip to Navigation | Skip to Content | Skip to Footer From prophylactic teeth extractions, to tracking square and jumping trains, ordinary and renowned Australians share their stories of surviving the Great Depression. No details are available on this...

HHT - The Fabric of Society: Textiles and making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

Annette Gero, author of The Fabric of Society and notable collector of Australian textiles will bring in samples of her extensive collection from the 1920s and 1930s for viewing. Dr Annette Gero, one of Australia's leading quilt historians, has been docu...

HHT - The Fabric of Society: Textiles and making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

Annette Gero, author of The Fabric of Society and notable collector of Australian textiles will bring in samples of her extensive collection from the 1920s and 1930s for viewing. Dr Annette Gero, one of Australia's leading quilt historians, has been docu...

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? Evictions were rife as out-of-work families failed to meet their rental payments and newspapers reported pitched street battles between police and anti-eviction protesters. Making do in the ...

Historic Houses Trust - The Fabric of Society: Textiles and making do in the Great Depression   (website Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales )

Dr Annette Gero, one of Australia's leading quilt historians, has been documenting and collecting quilts since 1982. She has travelled all over Australia giving lectures, curating exhibitions of Australian quilts and documenting quilts in private homes a...

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? Evictions were rife as out-of-work families failed to meet their rental payments and newspapers reported pitched street battles between police and anti-eviction protesters. Making do in the ...

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? Evictions were rife as out-of-work families failed to meet their rental payments and newspapers reported pitched street battles between police and anti-eviction protesters. It brings togethe...