Effects of the Great Depression in Australia
Australia
suffered badly during the period of the
Great Depression
of the 1930s. The Depression began with the
Wall Street Crash of 1929
and rapidly spread worldwide. As in other nations, Australia suffered years of high unemployment, poverty, low profits,
deflation
, plunging incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement.
The Australian economy and foreign policy largely rested upon its place as a primary producer within the
British Empire
, and Australia's important
export
industries, particularly primary products such as
wool
and
wheat
, suffered significantly from the collapse in international demand.
Unemployment
reached a record high of around 30% in 1932,
[1]
[2]
[3]
and
gross domestic product
declined by 10% between 1929 and 1931.
[4]
[5]
There were also incidents of
civil unrest
, particularly in Australia's largest city,
Sydney
.
[6]
Though Australian Communist and far right movements were active in the Depression, they remained largely on the periphery of Australian politics, failing to achieve the power shifts obtained in Europe, and the democratic political system of the young Australian Federation survived the strain of the period.
The
James Scullin
Labor
Government had just assumed power with the commencement of the
Scullin Ministry
on 22 October following the
1929 federal election
, however just a couple of days later, "Black Thursday" would mark the start of the
Wall Street Crash of 1929
and the subsequent global onset of the Great Depression. From the outset the government was buffeted by the effects of the global economic crisis. With the government unable to implement the
deflationary
Premiers' Plan
,
Labor had split by 1931
over how to deal with the crisis, with
Treasurer
Ted Theodore
failing to implement his
Keynesian
inflationary
plans, and
New South Wales Premier
Jack Lang
losing office over his plans to boost the budget through a temporary cessation of interest repayments on debts to Britain and that interest on all government borrowings be reduced by 3% to free up money for injection into the economy. Labor defector
Joseph Lyons
helped to form the
United Australia Party
through the ending of the
Nationalist Party of Australia
and succeeded Scullin as
Prime Minister of Australia
from the
1931 federal election
until his death in 1939.
Thus Australia, unlike the United States, did not embark on a significant
Keynesian
program of spending to recover from the Depression. Nevertheless, the Australian recovery began around 1932. Australians took consolation from sporting achievements through the Depression, with cricketer
Don Bradman
and race horse
Phar Lap
achieving long-lasting fame.
1920s: The calm before the storm
[
edit
]
The Great War (
World War I
) had depleted Britain's savings and foreign investments, and wartime
inflation
had deeply upset the United Kingdom's
terms of trade
. A sluggish economy in Britain naturally reduced British demand for imports from Australia throughout the 1920s and this had affected Australia's balance of payments. Throughout the 1920s the Australian unemployment rate floated between 6% and 11%.
[2]
The Great War had also caused many necessary
infrastructure
projects to be delayed or abandoned, many of which began in the 1920s, including the
Sydney Harbour Bridge
[7]
and Sydney's underground railway system
[8]
in addition to the
Commonwealth government
beginning to fund major highways.
[9]
New
dams
and
grain elevators
were built, and the rural railway network was expanded in nearly every state. Large sums of government money were made available to provide returned First World War servicemen with farmland and agricultural equipment under
soldier settlement
schemes.
[10]
All these publicly funded projects were paid for by loans raised by both state and federal governments. Most of these loans were raised on capital markets in the
City of London
at an average of £30 million per annum.
[11]
1929: The storm erupts
[
edit
]
In 1910, the federal government introduced a national currency, the
Australian pound
, which it pegged to the
pound sterling
. In effect, Australia was on the
gold standard
through the
British
peg. In 1914, Britain removed the pound sterling from the gold standard, creating
inflation
pressures. Britain returned the pound sterling to the gold standard in 1925 at pre-1913 parity, effectively
revaluing
both currencies significantly and unleashing crushing
deflationary
pressures and falling export demand. This had the immediate effect of making British and Australian exports far less competitive in non-British markets, and affected Australia's terms of trade.
In 1929, as an emergency measure during the Great Depression, Australia left the gold standard,
[12]
resulting in a devaluation relative to sterling. A variety of pegs to sterling applied until December 1931, when the government set a rate of £1 Australian = 16 shillings sterling.
[13]
This was intended to ease entry of Australian goods into the British and other linked markets.
Falling export demand and commodity prices placed massive downward pressures on wages, particularly in industries such as
coal
mining. Due to falling prices, bosses were unable to pay the wages that workers wanted. The result was a series of strikes in many sectors of the economy in the late 1920s. Coal miners' strikes in the winter of 1929 brought much of the economy to its knees. A riot at a
picket line
in the
Hunter Region
mining town of
Rothbury
saw police shoot one teenage coal miner dead.
The conservative
Prime Minister of Australia
,
Stanley Bruce
, wished to dismantle the
conciliation and arbitration system
of judicially supervised
collective bargaining
which had been the cornerstone of Australia's
industrial relations
system since the 1900s, which would allow employers alone to increase or decrease employee wages in response to economic and market conditions.
The opposition
Australian Labor Party
, led by
James Scullin
, successfully depicted Stanley Bruce as wanting to destroy Australia's high wages and working conditions in the
1929 federal election
. Scullin was elected Prime Minister in a landslide which saw Stanley Bruce voted out as the Member for
Flinders
, the only time until the
2007 federal election
that a sitting Prime Minister lost his seat.
1929?1935: Scullin and Lang
[
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]
The
James Scullin
Labor
Government had just assumed power with the commencement of the
Scullin Ministry
on 22 October following the
1929 federal election
, however just a couple of days later,
Black Thursday
would mark the start of the
Wall Street Crash of 1929
and the subsequent global onset of the Great Depression. From the outset the Scullin administration was buffeted by the effects of the global economic crisis.
[14]
Throughout Scullin's term, commodity prices continued to fall, unemployment rose, and Australia's big cities were depopulated as thousands of unemployed men took to the countryside in search of menial agricultural work.
[
citation needed
]
The stagnant economy had reduced economic activity and therefore tax revenues. However, the debt commitments of both state and federal governments remained the same. Australia became severely at risk of defaulting on its foreign debt which had been accumulated during the relative prosperity and infrastructure-building frenzy of the 1920s.
The Great Depression in Australia saw huge levels of unemployment and economic suffering amid plummeting export income.
[15]
Although the economic downturn was a product of international events, Australian governments grappled with how to respond. Conventional economists said governments should pursue deflationary policies. Radicals proposed inflationary responses and increased government spending. Division emerged within the Labor Party over how to respond.
[16]
In August 1930, Scullin invited Sir
Otto Niemeyer
of the Bank of England to come to Australia to advise on economic policy. Niemeyer met with Federal and State leaders at a conference in Melbourne where he recommended a traditional deflationary response of balanced budgets to combat Australia's high levels of debt and insisted that interest on loans be met.
[16]
It entailed the balancing of the budget through expenditure and wage cuts, without additional overseas borrowing, necessitating reductions in social welfare programs, defence spending and other sweeping cutbacks.
[17]
The Premiers and Prime Minister Scullin agreed to this
Melbourne Plan
, which would go on to form the basis of the
Premiers' Plan
.
Ted Theodore
, Treasurer in Scullin's Government, supported an
inflationary
policy of increased government spending in times of a recession, a view espoused in 1936 by
John Maynard Keynes
. The Senate and Commonwealth Bank (then also acting as the country's central bank) rejected Theodore's spending plans. The Labor Premier of New South Wales meanwhile announced the
Lang Plan
in February 1931, which included a temporary cessation of interest repayments on debts to Britain and that interest on all government borrowings be reduced to 3% to free up money for injection into the economy.
[16]
In 1929, as an emergency measure, Australia took the
Australian pound
off the gold standard, resulting in a devaluation relative to sterling. Starting in September 1930, the Australian banks began to slowly devalue the Australian pound, and a year later it had been devalued 30% against the Pound Sterling.
[
citation needed
]
This had the economic effect of increasing the cost of imported goods and increasing the cost of servicing government overseas debts, which were denominated in the overseas currency, typically in sterling.
Jack Lang
, the Labor Party
Leader of the Opposition
in
New South Wales
and a fiery left-wing
populist
, campaigned vigorously against the provisions of the Melbourne Agreement. He was elected in a landslide in the
NSW state election of 1930
.
Scullin departed for an Imperial economic conference in London, necessitating an absence of five months, during which time he managed to secure reduced interest payments for Australia. With James Fenton as acting Prime Minister and Joseph Lyons as acting treasurer in his absence, Labor continued to negotiate Australia's economic response, with Fenton and Lyons advocating a more conservative fiscal approach and the unions and caucus calling for repudiation of debts.
[17]
In 1931 at an economic crisis conference in
Canberra
, Jack Lang issued his own programme for economic recovery.
[
citation needed
]
The
Lang Plan
advocated the repudiation of interest payments to overseas creditors until domestic conditions improved, the abolition of the Gold Standard to be replaced by a
Goods Standard
where the amount of money in circulation was linked to the amount of goods produced, and the immediate injection of £18 million of new money into the economy in the form of
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
credit. The Prime Minister and all other state Premiers refused.
With the rejection of the Theodore and Lang inflationary plans, the governments of Australia met to negotiate a compromise in 1931. The resulting
Premiers' Plan
required the Australian Federal and State governments to cut spending by 20%, including cuts to wages and pensions and was to be accompanied by tax increases, reductions in interest on bank deposits and a 22.5% reduction in the interest the government paid on internal loans.
[16]
The policy contrasted with the approach put forward by the British economist
John Maynard Keynes
and which was pursued by the United States, which held that governments needed to
spend
their way out of the Depression. The plan was signed by New South Wales Labor Premier
Jack Lang
, but he was a notable critic of its underlying philosophy and went on to pursue his own policy of defaulting on debt repayments, which led to confrontation with the Federal Scullin and
Lyons governments
and resulted in the
Lang Dismissal Crisis
of 1932.
[15]
[18]
The Labor Party soon split into three separate factions. Jack Lang and his supporters, mainly in New South Wales, were expelled from the party and formed a left-wing splinter party officially known as the
New South Wales Labor Party
, commonly known as
Lang Labor
. The Minister for Public Works and Railways,
Joseph Lyons
, led a conservative faction, which believed in the deflationary approach of balanced budgets and cuts in spending and opposed defaulting on debt repayments.
[17]
When the more radical Ted Theodore was reinstated as Treasurer by Scullin on 29 January, Joseph Lyons and James Fenton along with three others resigned from the government, joining the opposition Nationalist Party to form the
United Australia Party
. The Australian Labor Party would remain in government through the parliamentary term however, with Scullin as Prime Minister, and except for a brief stint by Scullin, Theodore as Treasurer.
Lyons government
[
edit
]
The stance of Joseph Lyons and James Fenton against the more radical proposals of the Labor movement to deal with the Depression had attracted the support of prominent Australian conservatives, known as "the Group", whose number included future prime minister
Robert Menzies
. In parliament on 13 March 1931, though still a member of the ALP, Lyons supported a
no confidence motion
against the Scullin Labor government. The
United Australia Party
was then formed from a coalition of citizens’ groups and with the support of the
Nationalist Party of Australia
. Lyons quit the ALP to become parliamentary leader of the newly established United Australia Party, with John Latham, Nationalist Leader of the Opposition, becoming the new party's deputy leader.
[19]
In November 1931,
Lang Labor
dissidents chose to challenge the Scullin Labor government and align with the United Australia Party Opposition to pass a ‘no confidence’ and the government fell. At the
1931 federal election
, the ALP were left with just 14 seats after losing 32 seats, though an extra 4 seats were won by NSW Lang Labor. The Lyons-led United Australia Party in
Coalition
with the
Country Party
commenced its first term of government in January 1932.
[17]
Before being voted out of office, the Scullin government had covered NSW's debt default. The federal government had paid NSW's bond installments and intended to recoup this money from the NSW Government. A dramatic episode in Australian history followed Lyons first electoral victory. When NSW Premier Jack Lang refused to pay interest on overseas State debts, the Lyons government stepped in and paid the debts and then passed the Financial Agreement Enforcement Act to recover the money it had paid. In an effort to frustrate this move, Lang ordered State departments to pay all receipts directly to the Treasury instead of into Government bank accounts. The
New South Wales Governor
, Sir
Philip Game
, intervened on the basis that Lang had acted illegally in breach of the state Audit Act and
sacked the Lang Government
, who then suffered a landslide loss at the subsequent
1932 state election
.
[20]
Australia would recover relatively quickly from the global financial downturn, with recovery beginning around 1932. Lyons pursued an orthodox fiscal policy, favouring the deflationary economic measures of the
Premiers' Plan
, and refused to accept NSW Premier Jack Lang's proposals to default on overseas debt repayments. Australia entered the Depression with a debt crisis and a credit crisis. According to author
Anne Henderson
of the conservative
[21]
Sydney Institute
[1]
, Lyons held a steadfast belief in "the need to balance budgets, lower costs to business and restore confidence" and the Lyons period gave Australia "stability and eventual growth" between the drama of the Depression and the outbreak of the Second World War. A lowering of wages was enforced and industry tariff protections maintained, which together with cheaper raw materials during the 1930s saw a shift from agriculture to manufacturing as the chief employer of the Australian economy - a shift which was consolidated by increased investment by the commonwealth government into defence and armaments manufacture. Lyons saw restoration of Australia's exports as the key to economic recovery.
[22]
A devalued Australian currency assisted in restoring a favourable balance of trade.
Varying experiences of the Great Depression
[
edit
]
During the Great Depression, different parts of Australian society experienced different hardships, challenges and opportunities. There was increased movement of many people to and from country areas in search of work. City and urban people planted gardens to produce fruit and vegetables. In some urban areas co-operatives were formed based on barter systems to share what was available.
Single unemployed men had to make do in illegal camps or makeshift hostels in disused buildings, such as the old
Redfern Fish Market
.
[23]
[24]
[25]
Shacks were built on the outskirts of large cities to house some who lost their homes, for example near the beach at Garie in the Royal National Park south of Sydney. There has been anecdotal evidence of families resorting to living in caves with authorities turning a blind eye as there were no other accommodation available.
Unemployed Australians
[
edit
]
For Australians, the decade of the 1930s began with problems of huge unemployment, because the fall of the stock markets on Wall Street reduced confidence throughout the world. Most governments reacted to the crisis with similar policies, aimed at slashing back government spending and paying back loans. The Australian government could do little to change the effects of the slump and the tough economic times ahead. This affected the country in many ways.
[26]
Because of economic downturn, people’s lives changed drastically. Australia had supplied huge amounts of wool for uniforms during World War 1, and many exports helped Australia achieve a high standard of living in the 1920s. The majority of the people of Australia lived very well prior to the fall, so they felt the effects of the depression strongly. Because of the severe economic contraction, the reduction of purchasing goods, employers couldn’t afford to keep excessive workers. A five-year unemployment average for 1930-34 was 23.4%, with a peak of approximately 30% of the nation being unemployed in 1932. This was one of the most severe unemployment rates in the industrialised world, exceeded only by Germany.
[27]
Many hundreds of thousands of Australians suddenly faced the humiliation of poverty and unemployment. This was still the era of traditional social family structure, where the man was expected to be the sole bread winner. Soup kitchens and charity groups made brave attempts to feed the many starving and destitute. The male suicide rate spiked in 1930 and it became clear that Australia had limits to the resources for dealing with the crisis.
[28]
The depression's sudden and widespread unemployment hit the soldiers who had just returned from war the hardest as they were in their mid-thirties and still suffering the trauma of their wartime experiences. At night many slept covered in newspapers at Sydney’s Domain or at Salvation Army refugees.
[29]
The limited jobs that did arise were viciously fought for. The job vacancies were advertised in the daily newspaper, which formed massive queues to search for any job available. This then caused the race to arrive first at the place of employment (the first person to turn up was usually hired.) This is depicted in the Australian film
Caddie
.
[30]
Many Australians campaigned at a community level through organisations such as the Unemployed Workers Movement to demand improved welfare and relief.
[31]
[32]
Authorities often attempted to repress protest through the use of repressive laws including bans on street marches and free speech.
[33]
[34]
These in turn were resisted by campaigns of civil resistance, with Melbourne social realist artist Noel Counihan famously speaking from inside a cage to prevent arrest.
[35]
[36]
Overall campaigning was successful in terms of gaining improved welfare and relief as well as in disrupting and preventing housing evictions across Australia.
[37]
Culture and society
[
edit
]
Extraordinary sporting successes did something to alleviate the spirits of Australians during the economic downturn. In a
Sheffield Shield
cricket match at the
Sydney Cricket Ground
in 1930,
Don Bradman
, a young New South Welshman of just 21 years of age wrote his name into the record books by smashing the previous highest batting score in first-class cricket with 452 runs not out in just 415 minutes.
[38]
The rising star's world-beating cricketing exploits were to provide much needed joy to Australians through the emerging
Great Depression
and Post World War One recovery.
Between 1929 and 1931 the racehorse
Phar Lap
dominated Australia's racing industry, at one stage winning fourteen races in a row.
[39]
Famous victories included the 1930
Melbourne Cup
, following an assassination attempt and carrying 9 stone 12 pounds weight.
[40]
Phar Lap sailed for the United States in 1931, going on to win North America's richest race, the
Agua Caliente Handicap
in
Tijuana
, Mexico, in 1932. Soon after, on the cusp of US success, Phar Lap developed suspicious symptoms and died. Theories swirled that the champion race horse had been poisoned and a devoted Australian public went into shock.
[41]
The
1938 British Empire Games
were held in Sydney at the Cricket Ground from 5?12 February, timed to coincide with Sydney's sesqui-centenary (150 years since the foundation of British settlement in Australia).
1932?1939: A slow recovery
[
edit
]
Unlike the United States, where
Franklin Roosevelt
's inflationary
New Deal
attempted to stimulate the American economy,
New Zealand
where
Michael Savage
's pioneering
welfare state
tried to reduce hardship, or the United Kingdom where rearmament (from 1936) increased deficit spending, there was no significant mechanism for inflationary Keynesian economic policy responses in Australia.
Australia's recovery during the 1930s was led by the manufacturing sector.
[42]
Federation in 1901 had granted only limited power to the federal government. For example, income taxes were collected by the State governments. Some argued that Australia's
protectionist
high tariffs worked to hurt the economy and that influential interest groups sought no change in this aspect of policy. Additionally, there was no significant banking reform or
nationalisation
of private businesses.
The devaluation of the Australian pound, abandonment of the Gold Standard, recovery of major trading partners like the United Kingdom and
public works
projects instituted by State and
local governments
led to a slow recovery. Unemployment, which peaked at 32% in 1932, was 11% at the start of the
Second World War
compared to 17.2% in the United States.
Legacy of the Great Depression in Australia
[
edit
]
Following Lyons' death in 1939,
Robert Menzies
assumed the United Australia Party leadership and the prime ministership, however the
1940 federal election
resulted in a
hung parliament
. A year later, Menzies'
minority government
was brought down in the
House of Representatives
when the two independents
crossed the floor
and switched their support to Labor, bringing
John Curtin
to power during
World War II
. At the
1943 federal election
, Curtin led Labor to their greatest House of Representatives victory both in terms of proportion of seats and their strongest national two-party vote. Curtin died in 1945 however, and was succeeded as Labor leader and prime minister by
Ben Chifley
, who would lead Labor to their first successful federal re-election attempt at the
1946 federal election
, before their defeat at the
1949 federal election
by the Menzies-led
Liberal Party of Australia
in
Coalition
with the
Country Party
. The
comprehensive economic and social reforms
and reformist nature of the Chifley Labor government was such that between 1946 and 1949, the Australian Parliament passed 299
Acts
, a record until then, well beyond Labor's
Andrew Fisher
's 113 Acts from 1910 to 1913.
Curtin and Chifley, who often used the spectre of another depression in their campaign rhetoric, utilised emergency wartime powers to introduce a
command economy
in Australia based on
Keynesian
principles. Unemployment was virtually eliminated in this period, being reduced to a record low of 1.1%.
[43]
In 1942, income tax became federally controlled with the states conceding that the war effort needed a centrally controlled financial basis.
In 1944, Curtin announced the plan for a white paper on full employment. This white paper served a variety of roles; to establish the priority of full employment; to ensure the depression would not recur; and to propose ways to make these objectives possible. Dr H C 'Nugget' Coombs as director-general of the Reconstruction Ministry had major input into this policy. The economic theories proposed by J M Keynes in 1936 were a major influence on the white paper.
Between 1947 and 1949 Chifley also attempted to
nationalise
the banking sector, arguing that public control over the finance industry would assist in preventing further depressions.
[44]
These plans saw bitter and protracted opposition from the media, conservative parties and the banks themselves. The
High Court of Australia
ruled that the proposed nationalisation of banks was unconstitutional. The government
unsuccessfully appealed the decision in the Privy Council
.
In 1949, the combined perceived threats of international and domestic communism and industrial unrest along with the public's waning support for extended rationing and intervention following the close of the War saw the return of Menzies to the prime ministership. Though Menzies was a conservative, his sixteen subsequent years in power saw the government continue the use of
Keynesian
methods in economic policy as well as further expansion of the
Curtin
and
Chifley economic and social legacies
.
See also
[
edit
]
- The Susso
, welfare in Australia originating in the Great Depression
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