Great depression

Letter from International Class War Prisoners Aid National Office, 30 January 1932

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

Colourised image of boys standing around with wheel borrows filled with bricks.

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