Download this Timeline Table

Here’s what we will do on OPLE today:

1. Log-in (or line-up to see Mr. March straight-away to get access)
2. If I am not already listed as a “friend,” search for “March” and make me a friend.
3. Go to my Blog and view the instructions for today.
4. Let’s get to work!

The Great Depression

• The Great Depression - from the Australian Federal Government
• Timeline of the 1930s - from the ABC
• Australia and the Great Depression: Trinity College of Western Australia
• Canberra The Nation’s Capital - 1930s Depression
• Australia 1930: An inaugural lecture - Professor LF Giblin
• 1930 to 1939 - Depression and Crisis: New South Wales Parliament
• Trade Union Influence in the 1920s and 1930s: Teaching Heritage NSW
• Working for the Dole: Commonwealth Relief During the Depression - National Archives of Australia
• New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania: The Great Depression - AustLii Reconciliation and Social Justice Library
• Working for the Dole: Appendix One, Chronology of Events - National Archives of Australia
• Australian governments did not have the theory, the means or the will to adequately handle the Depression: Thomas Dickson, Murdoch University
• The Communist Election Manifesto - visual, download the pdf

The Harbour Bridge

• The Sydney Harbour Bridge - from the Australian Federal Government
• 75th Anniversary - Our Bridge - History
• The Telegraph’s 75th Anniversary Page
• Seven pictures from The Guardian Unlimited
• Wikipedia page on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
• HarbourBridge.com.au
• Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylon Lookout
• Sydney Harbour Bridge Workers Honour Roll 1922-32 (pdf)
  
• Sydney Travel Online - Sydney Harbour Bridge

Learning to Look :: Travel posters from the 1930s

• Australian Parrots, Australia 1930s
• Coolangatta (South Queensland) for Your Winter Holidays c.1930s
• Winter Holidays by Rail to Central Australia 1930s
• Winter Tours to Central Australia 1930s
• Off to the North for Warmth 1938
• North Queensland Calls You to a Winter Holiday in the Tropics 1933
• The Marine Wonders of the Great Barrier Coral Reef 1933
• Great Barrier Reef, Queensland 1930s
• The Lights of Adelaide from the Mount Lofty Ranges 1930s
• South Australia. Morialta, 8 Miles from Adelaide 1930s
• Flinders Ranges: South Australia’s Winter Sunland 1930s
• Set Your Course for Pt. Lincoln and a Perfect Holiday 1930s
• Mount Gambier: The Lake District of South Australia 1930s
• Rest and Relax on the Murray Trip: Rail and River Tours 1930s
• The Angler’s Paradise: Kangaroo Island, South Australia. “Where Holiday Dreams Come True.” 1930s
• “Venetian Nights”, Sydney Harbour. Australia’s 150th Anniversary 1938 1937
• Australia Celebrates: January 26 … April 25, 1938 1937
• Aberdeen & Commonwealth Line, One Class Only to Australia via Suez Canal c.1932
• Australia’s 150th Anniversary celebrations, Sydney, 1938

You might compare these to a current set of postcards:

Activity:

1. What is the subject of the imagery 1930s and today?
2. Compare the text / leadline from the two eras.
3. How does the “flavour” of “Where the Bloody Hell Are You?” campaign title compare to the feeling or attitude displayed in the earlier posters?

Building Knowledge As you develop your knowledge of Australia in the 1930s, consider adding to this basically empty page in Wikipedia?!

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