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Plenty of resilience, but little resistance in a new account of Australia's Great Depression

  • Written by: Marilyn Lake, Professorial Fellow in History, The University of Melbourne
Plenty of resilience, but little resistance in a new account of Australia's Great DepressionSchoolchildren queuing for free soup and a slice of bread during the Depression, Belmore North Public School, 2 August 1934.State Library of New South Wales

In her latest book, Australia’s Great Depression, Joan Beaumont offers a deeply conservative history animated by the neoliberal spirit of our age.

In many ways a sequel to Broken Nation:...

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