Talk:Great Depression in Australia

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Contents 1 earlier comments 2 Ten Pound Poms 3 This Article Needs Lots of Work 4 Pegging?? 5 British immigants suspicious???

[edit] earlier comments

"Unlike the United States where Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal stimulated the American economy"- This sentence makes it seem as if America quickly recovered from the depression because of the new deal. Anyone who remembers history knows that in 1937-1938 America experienced another depression and it was WWII and not new deal economics that brought America out of the depression in the 1930's.

CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE FIX THIS ARTICLE, WE NEED IT FOR OUR ASSIGNMENT

Maybe if some idiot school students from Western Australia didn't keep vandalising this article, you'd be able to use it for the assignment. I wrote this article, it's my baby, but I couldn't be bothered fixing it up until the idiot vandals get lost. Oh, and Wikipedia really isn't ideal for use in school assignments; it's not reliable enough. --Humehwy 03:51, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

I just fixed it up anyway, it wasn't that hard. If the vandalism keeps up, I'll ask an administrator to block the page from further edits. --Humehwy 04:00, September 9, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ten Pound Poms

Just noticed a reference to Ten Pound Poms - in actual fact the ten pound fare assisted passage scheme was implemented after World War II, and Ten Pound Poms are those who immigrated in the 1950s and 1960s - this is quite a while after the depression! I'll write a Ten Pound Poms article to clarify this Triki-wiki 06:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)Triki-wiki. lol u rule

Hmmm. My grandfather, who migrated from England as a four year old in 1926, told me (before he was stricken with senile dementia) that he was sneered at as a "ten pound pom" when he was at primary school in Bankstown, New South Wales between the wars. Though I'll agree with your removal of the "ten pound pom" reference until somebody can find online evidence that assisted passage only came about after the Second World War. --Humehwy 15:28, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Well, your grandfather isn't able to be cited as a Wikipedia source, and all the other evidence I've found says that Ten Pound Poms were post WWII - there's a brief history at http://www.immi.gov.au/facts/04fifty.htm, and there are also the sources cited in the Ten Pound Poms article. Nice work on this article all the same! Triki-wiki 02:03, 21 March 2006 (UTC)Triki-wiki

The "ten pound Poms" thing is only peripheral to the story of the Great Depression in Australian anyway, so I'll agree with your removal of that reference. It's probably sufficient to just say that there was a very high rate of migration in the 1920s which created a building boom which turned into a bust in the Depression. --Humehwy 03:44, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This Article Needs Lots of Work

There are no,omg this is soooo SAD zero, citations to sources for the opinions expressed in the article. The article is full of conclusions and I can only assume these conclusions are based upon the personal opinion of some Wikipedian because there are no citations to any formal authorities. For example, one sentence states flatly that the Depression ended in the U.S. because the of policies of FDR. That is NOT a fact, it is an opinion. The economy might have turned around because of the high military spending of WWII. This is an issue that under debate and has been for many, many years. It is NOT the role of Wikipedians to simply decide what cause of the some is or isn't. The role of Wikipedians is give both sides and let the reader decide. May be FDR's program's had some affect and may be they didn't, but clearly it is NOT up to a simple Wikipedian to make such a decision. If so, then that Wikipedian is engaging in non-NPOV editing. --- --70114205215 03:42, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Pegging??

"The Australian pound was pegged to the pound sterling." Um, what does this actually mean? Making the article a bit clearer here might be of help.

Okay, somebody changed it to 'linked'. That provides a much for clearer view, so whoever it was, much thanks!

[edit] British immigants suspicious???

how could such a statement be true when Australia was under the Men Money Markets policy in which W.A.S.P's (white anglo saxon prodesants) were encouraged to immigrate to australia?? It was believed that by boosting the work force numbers the economy will again raise as the demand for goods rises. this did not work as wages did not increase along with the price of goods and thus the policy was a failure, but in no way was the british immigration to Australia suspicious or were they accused of job stealing.