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England defeats Australia 4–1 in The Ashes series South Sydney win the 1929 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership , defeating Newtown 30–10. Collingwood football club win their third consecutive AFL Priemiership flag, after an undefeated home and away season.
Australia was affected badly during the period of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The Depression began with the Wall Street crash of 1929 and rapidly spread worldwide. As in other nations, Australia had years of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal ...
October 12, 1929: James Scullin wins election to become new Prime Minister of Australia October 24, 1929: Panic selling begins on Wall Street when the New York Stock Exchange opens as investors scramble to pay "margin calls", a day commemorated as "Black Thursday" and as the start of the Great Depression October 3, 1929: The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially shortens name to ...
This is a list of wars, armed conflicts and rebellions involving the Commonwealth of Australia (1901–present) and its predecessor colonies, the colonies of New South Wales (1788–1901), Van Diemen's Land (1825–1856), Tasmania (1856–1901), Victoria (1851–1901), Swan River (1829–1832), Western Australia (1832–1901), South Australia (1836–1901), and Queensland (1859–1901).
Throughout 1928 and 1929 economic conditions in Australia and internationally had been declining, whilst Australian debt had grown and revenues had shrunk. Facing major challenges, Bruce had embarked upon extensive negotiations throughout 1929 to tighten federal control over finance and industrial relations and to implement ameliorating ...
Eric Campbell, DSO, VD (11 April 1893 – 2 September 1970) was an Australian army officer and later a solicitor who was the leader of the far-right organisation, the New Guard in New South Wales. Campbell had a distinguished career during World War I, serving as a major in artillery batteries on the Western Front. In Sydney in 1919 Campbell ...
Notably, this is the first occasion in Australian political history where a sitting prime minister loses his own seat (the second being John Howard in 2007). October 13 – Afghan Civil War ends. [49] October 18 – On appeal from the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of "The Famous Five" Canadian women in the landmark case of Edwards v.
4.3 World War II. 4.4 Final years. ... 22 October 1929 – 9 June 1930: ... Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party 1929–1931 Succeeded by. Frank Forde