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
Schoolchildren queuing for free soup and a slice of bread during the Depression, Belmore North Public School, 2 August 1934.State Library of New South WalesIn 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:...