Anne Henderson (born 1949) is an Australian writer, Deputy Director of The Sydney Institute, editor of The Sydney Papers and co-editor of The Sydney Institute Quarterly.She was born in Melbourne and n ...
The son of Forbes Macintyre and Alison Stevens Macintyre, Stuart Macintyre was born in Melbourne. His schooling took place at Scotch College, and later at the University of Melbourne. While an undergr ...
Main article: Great Depression in AustraliaJoseph Lyons, UAP Prime Minister of Australia 1932-1939Robert Menzies, UAP Prime Minister of Australia 1939-1941The veteran Australian politician Billy Hughe ...
The 1932 dismissal of Premier Jack Lang by New South Wales Governor Philip Game was the first real constitutional crisis in Australia. Lang remains the only Australian Premier to be removed from offic ...
Game was born in Streatham, Surrey, England, on 30 March 1876 to George Beale Game, a merchant from Broadway, Worcestershire, and his wife Clara Vincent. Before entering the army, he was educated at C ...
From the Sydney CBD side, motor vehicle access to the bridge is normally via Grosvenor Street, Clarence Street, Kent Street, the Cahill Expressway, or the Western Distributor. Drivers on the northern ...
The southern (CBD) end of the bridge is located at Millers Point in The Rocks area, and the northern end at Milsons Point in the lower North Shore area. There are six original lanes of road traffic th ...
John Thomas Lang was born on 21 December 1876 on George Street, Sydney, close to the present site of The Metro Theatre (between Bathurst Street and Liverpool Street). He was the third son (and sixth o ...
List of Premiers of New South Wales No. Name(lifespan) Portrait Term of Office Party Constituency Ministry Election(s)1 Stuart Donaldson(1812–1867) Stuart A. Donaldson.jpg 6 June 1856 25 August 1856 ...
Theodore was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the second son of Basil Teodorescu, a Romanian immigrant. He was educated at Lefevre Peninsula Catholic and Aldgate State schools in Adelaide, but left ...
Sir Otto Ernst Niemeyer GBE KCB (1883–1971) was financial controller at the Treasury and a director at the Bank of England.Niemeyer was educated at St Paul's and Balliol College, Oxford before joinin ...
Returning to Australia in 1931, Scullin was faced with a party now deeply divided over how to respond to the Depression. Jack Lang had won election as Premier of New South Wales and had become a leadi ...
James Henry Scullin was born in Trawalla, Victoria on 18 September 1876. His parents, John and Ann (née Logan) Scullin, were both Irish Catholics from County Londonderry. His father was a railway lab ...
The Australian economy is dependent on imported crude oil and petroleum products, the economy's petroleum import dependency is around 80% – crude oil + petroleum products.Trade and economic performan ...
20th century This Section is incomplete. (February 2014)Australia's average GDP growth rate for the period 1901–2000 was 3.4% annually.Economic liberalisation From the early 1980s onwards, the Austr ...
