Trade Unions in Victoria During the Great Depression 1930 32
L. J. Louis surveys Victoria’s trade unions from 1930 to 1932 amid the Great Depression. He finds ill organization and naive theory, rigid faith in Labor governance, and tepid support for reforms. The analysis covers union leadership, interaction with Labor parties, the impact of the Senate, and Communist Party role.
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Victoria
J. Louis
Canberra
ANU Press
Louis
Monash Caley
Commonwealth
Senate
Australia
Theodore
Communist Party
Moscow
Communist Party of Australia
Communist International
Red International
French Drama of the Inter-War Years review summary
Dorothy Knowles surveys inter war French drama 1918 to 1939, praising factual accuracy on dates and venues while noting biases and grouping choices. The critique highlights emphasis on collaborators, theatre figures, and staging styles, with caution about overgeneralized judgments for readers lacking firsthand play experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ANU
Dorothy Knowles
M. Harrap
Ihanstlor
Knowles
Cocteau
Cocteau and Company
Intelligence Unlimited
Anquilh
Brecht
Jouvret
Sartre
Dr Knowles
Polar explorers in perspective two ends of human endeavour
A critical compare of Two polar books. Hayter’s One Year at Scott Base tracks leadership and morale during 1964 65 in Antarctica while Weent’s Peary The Explorer and the Man chronicles Robert Peary from school days to his 1909 celestial reach for the Pole. The review weighs motive, obsession, and distance from civilisation.
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North Pole
Robert Peary
South Pole
Peary
Antarctica
Scofase
Hayter
New Zealand
US Navy
Arctic
Murmers
Riches of music Riches of music review
A critical survey of Harvey Blanks’s The Golden Road and James Glennon’s Australian Music and Musicians. The piece praises Blanks’s enthusiastic record guide while faulting numerous factual errors, Adelaide bias, and missing Sydney musical history, noting misdated, misnamed ensembles and incomplete coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanks
Adelaide
James Glennon
Musica Viva Society
Queensland
Brisbane
Mischief in the making
A 1909 review panel rates The Mischief Makers by Patricia Carroll and other titles from Crone Club. It praises The Mischief Makers as witty, urbane satire on the in group world of television and questions of assassination, while noting Crime in Threadneedle Street, Forty Pieces of Alloy, and With Intent offer varied crime fiction.
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Patricia Carlow
Hreder & Stoughton
Feadnffale Street
George Davis
Crome Club
Prive
Hyams
Threadneedle Street
Charteris
Dornford Yates
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Sydney Harbour
Cedric Flower
Angus and Robertson
Osmar White
Heinemann
Adrian Ayter
Hodder & Stoughton
London
Peary — the
Explorer
Man
John Edward Weents
Yh & Spottiswoode
Moon
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W. L. Hoffmann
Harvey Blanks
Bigly
Bigby
UCH
the Golden Road
World Record Club
Harve Blanks
Hugo Wolf Society
Mr Blanks
Sibelius
Delius
Stravinsky
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Mahler Society
Bruno Walter
Goosens
SSO
Sydney String Quartet
Sydney Conservatorium
University of Adelaide
Peart
Sydney University
Monash University
Conservatorium Directors
Canberra School of Music
Ernest Llewellyn
W. 8
Ramson
Lawrence Henderson
Edward Hyams
Langmens
Sip
Penguin Books
Edna O'Brien
Eris Murdoch
John Updike
Henry James
Richard Graves
Walkabout Pocket Books — New and Gay
Barrier Reet
Bill Beatty
Tetbooks
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Endeavour House
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