Great depression
Great Depression: Bankstown Riot, 1931
On June 17, 1931, a riot broke out in Bankstown, Sydney, in protest of rent evictions taking place during the Great Depression. Seventeen men were arrested for serious affray, and sixteen of them received sentences of hard labor in prison
Skint! Making do in the great depression
On Tuesday 29 October 1929 the New York stock market collapsed. The great depression began, and the impacts were quickly felt in Australia