The depression, of 1929, led to many problems in Australia that had to be addressed by the Australian Federal Government. The depression started on Thursday the 24th of October 1929 due to a stock market crash in Wall Street New York, America. The crash at first devastated New York and America but it quickly spread around the world. The problems for Australian Federal Government concerned their policy decisions on unemployment, imports and exports and government spending. The …showed first 75 words of 747 total…

…showed last 75 words of 747 total…of radical political organisations claiming to defend the interests that more and more people believed democratic institutions could not provide. In NSW, some Communist, socialist, workers' and unemployed organisations advocated direct action. The Federal Government addressed the problems of the Great Depression by trial and error and possibly was hampered by conservative policies. References: -Text Book -http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/eranet/dickson.htm -http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/WEB_FEED/PHWebContent.nsf/PHPages