Australia's Great Depression

Introduction

Part I Legacies of War
1 The soldiers come home
2 Politics reshaped
3 War and the economy

Part II Recovery, Visions and Recession, 1919-29
4 Recovery and development
5 The voracious borrower
6 Recession
7 Over the cliff

Part III Depression, 1929
8 What caused the Great Depression?
9 Scullin's poisoned chalice
10 The unemployed
11 The voluntary sector to the rescue

Part IV Maelstrom, 1930
12 The tightening band of policy options
13 Losing control

Part V Surviving
14 Sustenance
15 Community and family
16 Health and resilience

Part VI Work of a Kind
17 Searching for work
18 Relief works
19 Protest and grievance

Part VII The Nadir, 1931
20 The battle of the plans
21 Populism and secession
22 Taking up arms
23 In office but not in power
24 The Premiers' Plan
25 Scullin's end

Part VIII On the Margins
26 Women at risk
27 Losing your home
28 Without a home
29 On the track
30 Aboriginal Australians
31 The new immigrant

Part IX Climax, 1932
32 Lyons' first six months
33 Debt, imperial preference and cricket

Part X Recovery, 1933-37
34 Economic recovery
35 An emergency government without an emergency

Epilogue: A resilient nation
Appendix: Federal and state elections, 1927-37
Notes
References
Index

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