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  Jack Lang (Australian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lang and the Labor Party lost the June 11, 1932 election in a massive landslide.
Lang was ousted as NSW Opposition Leader in 1939 by the Labor Party's Parliamentary Caucus and was replaced by William McKell who became Premier in 1941.
Lang was expelled from the ALP once again in 1942, and he once again started his own parallel Labor Party.
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 jack lang (australia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Therefore it was no surprise that Jack Lang - who had skilfully refined his populism and oratory early in his Parliamentary career -- was elected in a landslide in October 1930.
In March 1932 Lang opened the Sydney Harbour Bridge, an engineering marvel that is still the widest bridge in the world and the most easily recognisable symbol of Sydney.
John Thomas Lang died in his beloved Auburn on September 27, 1975, and was comemmorated with a packed house and overflowing crowds outside Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral at his Requiem Mass and memorial service.
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 Jack Lang (Australia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jack Lang continued in his political pursuits becoming an Alderman on Auburn Municipal Council and eventually Mayor.
However Australia was - and still is a constitutional monarchy with a federal system of Government and only the Government in Canberra had the power to control the - only Canberra could control monetary policy policy customs duties and foreign relations.
This programme was justified by Lang on grounds that wealthy investors and bondholders in far-away land could afford to have their payments delayed for a period of time that the needs of Australia's own unemployed (which reached 28% of the working-age male in 1932) were much more pressing than debt committments.
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 Jack Lang (Australian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After the ALP lost government in 1922, Lang was relegated to the Opposition benches, where he was elected as Opposition Leader in 1923 by his fellow Labor Party MPs.
Governor Sir Philip Game was left with no choice but to dismiss Lang and install the conservative Opposition Leader Sir Bertram Stevens as temporary Premier pending a state election.
John Thomas Lang died in his beloved Auburn on September 27, 1975, aged 98, and was commemorated with a packed house and overflowing crowds outside Sydney's St. Mary's Cathedral at his Requiem Mass and memorial service.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Lang_(Australia)   (1945 words)

  
 4Reference || Jack Lang (Australia)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jack Lang's Early Life John Thomas Lang - familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella" during his political career - was born on December 21, 1876 into an impoverished family in the slums of Sydney.
Lang Enters The Political Arena Jack Lang continued in his political pursuits, soon becoming an Alderman on Auburn Municipal Council and eventually Mayor.
Lang's Second Term and The Depression In 1930, over one in five adult males in New South Wales was without a job.
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 Jack Lang
Lang's nationalism was anathema to the officer and commercial classes; the ordinary ex-soldier became the bully-boy of those whose class snobbery was as much directed towards the poor veteran as the city working class.
Lang was Treasurer in the NSW Labor government of 1920-21, and Premier and Treasurer of the State twice (1925-27 and 1930-32).
Lang Labor was centred in NSW, and at one stage encompassed virtually the whole NSW branch of the Party.
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 Australia's Experiment in Communism (Jack Lang)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
[Jack Lang was the Premier of New South Wales during 1925-1927 and 1930-1932 (and had been Treasurer in the NSW Labor government of 1920-21).
It is interesting to recall that Australia had an experiment in Communism, 24 years before the Russians achieved their present subjection to Communist Bureaucracy.
That was the background against which we first heard of the plan to establish a New Australia which was to be free of all poverty, without capitalism and with equality for all.
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 Australia's Prime Ministers - Who's Who   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was a member of Australia’s delegation to the League of Nations in 1923 and in 1925 he helped found the Federal Health Council, and in 1928, the College of Surgeons of Australasia.
Nationalist/United Australia Party Member of the House of Representatives 1922–34 (Kooyong), Latham was Attorney-General (18 December 1925 – 22 October 1929) in the Bruce–Page government, and from 6 January 1932 – 12 October 1934 in the Lyons government.
In 1937 with PR Stephenson she formed the anti-imperialist Australia First movement and advocated a trade pact with Japan as a means of averting war.
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 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Australia Day January 26 | Australian national holiday commemoration ...
This being the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Colony of N. Wales by Governor Phillip, who landed first at Sydney on 26th of Janry 1788, I directed 30 guns to be fired from Dawes Battery in honour of the occasion corresponding with the age of the Colony.
The strength of the argument to retain January 26 as the National Day of Australia is that it has been celebrated as such, in various styles but substantially the same way, from the beginning of European settlement.
On Australia Day 1911, it stated that while it had a deep regard for the past, the landing of Phillip was not worth celebrating.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /austday.html   (1599 words)

  
 National Archives of Australia - Fact Sheet 96 - JT Lang and Lang Labor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Lang was Treasurer in the NSW Labor government of 1920–21, and Premier and Treasurer of the State twice (1925–27 and 1930–32).
Lang's dismissal arose from his defiance of the Commonwealth Government's financial agreements legislation.
As NSW Premier and Treasurer Jack Lang's principal dealings with the Commonwealth were through bodies such as the Premiers' Conferences and the Australian Loan Council.
www.naa.gov.au /Publications/fact_sheets/FS96.html   (666 words)

  
 Jack Lang (Australia) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jack Lang (Australia) Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography
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 WWW-VL History Index
"Australia on the Map: 1606-2006" (AOTM) is a national not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping and encouraging the people of Australia plan events for 2006.
The Discovery of Australia, by Diego de Prado, from the University of Sydney Library.
Australia Felix, by Henry Handel Richardson, from the University of Sydney Library.
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 Australia's "Republic" referendum reveals mass disaffection
The longer the official campaign has gone on, the more obvious it has become that the November 6 referendum on whether Australia becomes a republic, dispensing with the British monarchy, gives the broad mass of people no choice at all.
In 1931 the Governor of the state of New South Wales dismissed the Labor Party government of Premier Jack Lang at the height of the Great Depression.
One hundred years ago the nation was founded on “White Australia” racism, an ideology supported by the employers and Labor leaders alike.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/nov1999/ref-n04.shtml   (1932 words)

  
 Australian Immigration Hotlist!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
White Australia and racism - Discusses the racist ideologies present in early Australia and the government policies that reinforced such ideologies.
Settling in Australia (Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs) - Since its establishment in 1948, the Adult Migrant English Program has helped more than 1.6 million migrants and refugees to learn English and settle in Australia.
White Australia Saved Australia - Written by Jack Lang (former NSW premier), expressing his controversial view that without the White Australia Policy we would have been lost to the “yellow hoards of Asia”.
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 Lang family of South Australia and Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
William Maddever LANG and Elizabeth HARRIS married and had the following children (in South Australia): William (1853), Richard (1856), Elizabeth (1858), Sarah (1861), Lydia (1864), John (1866), Amelia (1868) and Catherine (1870).
William Harris LANG married Catherine Emma COOPER and after her death married Elizabeth OLDFIELD.
Richard Maddever LANG was a miner who moved around following the work.
www.austega.com /familyhistory/lang.htm   (121 words)

  
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Jack Lang, Premier of New South Wales, was dismissed by the Governor of New South Wales in 1932 because, according to the National Archives, he defied the Commonwealth Government's financial agreements legislation when he argued for the suspension of loan payments to overseas creditors and his government defaulted on their interest payments to the Commonwealth.
Gough Whitlam, Prime Minister of Australia, was dismissed by the Governor General of Australia in 1975 because, according to the Governor General and the Shadow Attorney General of the time, his failure to obtain supply was an expression of a loss of confidence in the Government and should have resulted in the Government's resignation.
When he did not resign he was dismissed and elections were called.
www.ans.com.au /~janbrady/webquests/WQdismissals   (235 words)

  
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Jack Lang continued in his political pursuits, soon becoming an Alderman on After Lang's loss in the 1927 election, Jack Lang was Opposition Leader
John Thomas (Jack) Lang (1876—1975) was a significant figure in New South Wales and As NSW Premier and Treasurer Jack Lang's principal dealings with the
Lang and Labor, 1916-1932’, 1977 Bede Nairn, ‘The Big Fella : Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party 1891-1949’, 1986, revised 1996 Guide to the papers of
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 The Hon. John Thomas LANG [Former Member]
Member of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia.
Willis, ‘The Lang plan: a case for Australia’, 1931 M.
Ellis, ‘The red road : the story of the capture of the Lang Party by Communists, instructed from Moscow’, 1932 John H. Sleeman,’The life of J.T. Lang’, 1935 R.
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 Australia's Folklife - a Reading List
While customs and beliefs often only get passing mention in much writing about Australia’s past, the increasing popularity of oral history is gradually remedying that.
Given the scope of the subject this reading list is very selective and some topics are not covered at all (for example, Aboriginal heritage and the heritages of post World War Two immigrants).
Folk Songs of Australia and the men and women who sang them (Ure Smith, Sydney 1967) 300pp.
www.folk-sa.asn.au /Folk_Federation/folklife.htm   (915 words)

  
 BOS guestbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Miguel Nance (19/08/2001) All my friends say that origami is gay and just foldibng a pice of a papper its realy easy do you have the same problem and what do you think.
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 Government House - Perth, Western Australia
The reserve powers would only be exercised as a last resort.
The reserve powers have only been used twice in Australia – in 1975 when the Governor-General dismissed Prime Minister Gough Whitlam on the basis that he was unable to secure supply and in 1932 when Governor Game of New South Wales dismissed Premier Jack Lang on the grounds that he had acted unlawfully.
A guide to the workings of government in Western Australia.
www.govhouse.wa.gov.au /powers.htm   (393 words)

  
 Citizens Electoral Council of Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the 1930s Depression, some of Australia's leading corporations and families sponsored mass fascist armies against the attempts of the Labor governments of Scullin and NSW Premier Jack Lang, to put the interests of the Common Good above those of the financiers.
In the early 1940s, those same financiers set up the Liberal Party.
Jack Lang and Frank Anstey on the Synarchy
www.cecaust.com.au /main.asp?id=publications/newcitizenv5n5.htm   (307 words)

  
 jobs Auburn - Local area business directory. Local services.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
During the banking crash of the 1890s which devastated all parts of Australia, the teenage Jack became interested in politics, spending time frequenting radical bookshops and
This study abroad program connects more than 42 countries, areas, and about 250 universities which are in America, Europe, Africa, Australia and so on.
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Charles Lang, whose hands are in the photographs.
The Members of the eGCI team for considerable labour and expertise.
www.fourgrandmere.com (Click on the Union Jack to get the English version).
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 Peace Bibliography A-H   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ackerman, Peter, and Jack Duvall, A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict, St. Martins Press, NYC, 2000.
Australian Council of Churches, Conscientious Objection to Military Service; Report of a Special Committee, Australian Council of Churches, Sydney, Australia, 1968.
Badr, Ibrahim H., Giono et la Guerre: Ideologie et Imaginaire, P. Lang, NYC, 1999.
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 Adherents.com - Print Resources
The Land and People of Australia (book series: Portraits of the Nations Series).
John Gunther's Inside Australia; New York: Harper and Row (1972).
South Africa: A Tapestry of Peoples and Traditions (book series: Exploring Cultures of the World).
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 1932   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
May 12 - Ten weeks after his abduction, the infant son of Charles Lindbergh is found dead in Hopewell, New Jersey just a few miles from the Lindbergh's home.
May 13 - The Premier of New South Wales, Jack Lang (Australia)Jack Lang/, is dismissed by the State Governor, Sir Phillip Game
May 15 - Japanese troops leave Shanghai; May 15 incident occurs.
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