Victor Harbor High Old Scholars
The 20s
Australia in the 1920s
Due to the successful exploits of Australian servicemen during the war and in international politics, 'the digger' was enshrined as an Australian icon and legend. The 1920s saw a higher level of material prosperity for non-Indigenous people than ever before. ... The 1920s was known as the Jazz era.
Top 10 Songs in the 1920's!
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Ain't Misbehavin' – Fats Waller.
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Dark was the night – Blind Willie Johnson.
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Down Hearted Blues – Bessie Smith.
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In the Jailhouse Now – Jimmie Rodgers.
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Makin' Whoopee! – Bing Crosby.
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My Man – Fanny Brice.
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Swanee – Al Johnson.
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West End Blues – Louis Armstrong.
Films of the 1920s
Long Boards in the 1920s
Cricket 1920s
Bathing Beauties 1920s
Ladies Ice Hockey Team 1920s
Chariot Racing 1920s
Traffic chaos in 1920s
Music and Dance in the 1920s
The 1920s the host of musical styles was jazz to soul. Louis Armstrong, perhaps one of the most famous Jazz players of all time, rose to fame in the nightclubs of the 1920s. People eager to forget their sorrow and leave their pasts behind them would not only dance to their favorite tunes, but also with the revolutionary gramophone, listen to their favorite tracks in the comfort of their living rooms.
Movies that incorporated music were now also being released. Ben Hur, the most noted film of the 1920’s, incorporated nearly two whole hours of music in the film, which was met with open arms. The audience could now tell what the film was going to be about, just by listening to the music, due to the emotions that could be invoked with instruments. The Charleston also became rather famous.
The Great Depression
In the second half of the 1920s the Australian economy suffered from falling wheat and wool prices, and competition from other commodity-producing countries. Australia was also borrowing vast sums of money, which dried up as the economy slowed.Thousands of men went on the road to seek work on farms and stations.
Then the Wall Street crash of 1929 led to a worldwide economic depression. The Australian economy collapsed and unemployment reached a peak of 32 per cent in 1932.
It took Australia almost a decade to recover from the Great Depression ( read more....)
https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/great-depression
The 30s
First Trans Atlantic link with Britain 1930
Sydney Harbor Bridge Opening 1932
On 19 March 1932 the Sydney Harbour Bridge opened to the public. The event marked the end of almost a century of speculation and planning around a bridge or tunnel that would cross the harbour.
In 1922 the New South Wales Parliament passed the Sydney Harbour Bridge Act and preparation for the building got underway.
Construction began on the approaches to the span in 1923 and on the bridge itself in 1925. More than 1600 people worked on the bridge during its construction.
1930s. The Australian Broadcasting Commission (the ABC) was officially launched on 1 July, 1932 by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons and ABC radio announcer Conrad Charlton. “This is the Australian Broadcasting Commission,” Charlton said, before the Prime Minister inaugurated the ABC for listeners at home.
Sport in 1930s
Horse Racing
Phar Lap
Cricket- The Ashes 1932/33
Don Bradman
Douglas Jardine
Women’s cricket England versus Australia
The first international women’s cricket team to visit Australia was the English team, invited to tour in the summer of 1934-35 to play a series against an Australian team captained by Margaret Peden. Three Test matches were played against Australia and one against New Zealand – the first ever women’s Test matches. Although the English women had to pay their own way out, the newly-formed Australian Women’s Cricket Council, (AWCC), sponsored the tour, paying all in-country costs and retaining match profits.
The public and media interest in the English players was intense. Betty Archdale, captain of the English team, was praised in the press for being a fair and professional player. This was the first international tour since the controversial Bodyline tour of 1932, and Archdale and her team were conscious of the need to heal the cricketing rift between the two countries. The matches set crowd records at grounds across the country. Men in particular, were eager and curious to see the women play.
Aboriginal History 1930s Australia
1930s
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First stamp of Australia showing a reference to Aboriginal culture.
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Victorian Yorta Yorta man William Cooper petitions the King to have an Aboriginal representative in the federal House of Representatives, the main chamber of the national Australian parliament. A similar attempt is made in NSW. They are unsuccessful.
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The Tweed Heads All Blacks and the Redfern All Blacks are both in operation as early as 1930.
1937
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Segregationist practices continue until 1960s with separate sections in theatres, separate wards in hospitals, hotels refusing drinks and schools able to refuse enrolment to Aboriginal children
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The governments in the 1930s said children had to be taken away from their parents because the influence of their own communities was immoral and they were in danger of abuse and neglect, but the real agenda then was to de-Aboriginalise them.— Michael Anderson, Aboriginal leader
Stolen Generations
Between 1910-1970, many Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations. The policies of child removal left a legacy of trauma and loss that continues to affect Indigenous communities, families and individuals.
What happened and why?
The forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families was part of the policy of Assimilation. Assimilation was based on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority, which proposed that Indigenous people should be allowed to “die out” through a process of natural elimination, or, where possible, should be assimilated into the white community.
Children taken from their parents as part of the Stolen Generation were taught to reject their Indigenous heritage, and forced to adopt white culture. Their names were often changed, and they were forbidden to speak their traditional languages. Some children were adopted by white families, and many were placed in institutions where abuse and neglect were common.
Assimilation policies focused on children, who were considered more adaptable to white society than Indigenous adults. “Half-caste” children (a term now considered derogatory for people of Aboriginal and white parentage), were particularly vulnerable to removal, because authorities thought these children could be assimilated more easily into the white community due to their lighter skin colour.
Assimilation, including child removal policies, failed its aim of improving the lives of Indigenous Australians by absorbing them into white society. This was primarily because white society refused to accept Indigenous people as equals, regardless of their efforts to live like white people.
Stolen Generation Books
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The Burnt Stick (Hardcover) ...
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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time (Paperback) ...
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Stories for Simon (Hardcover) ...
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My Place (Paperback) ...
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Stolen Generations: The Pocket Windschuttle (Paperback) ...
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The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Volume three (Hardcover
Stolen Generation Films
Stolen Generations Music
