For many Australians, the 1920s did indeed herald an exciting new world. The tragic legacies of the Great War and the Spanish flu pandemic were not, perhaps, so easy to forget, but innovation in art, aviation, and the Australian dream proved welcome distractions.
In October 1929, at the dizzying height of the so-called ‘Roaring Twenties’, the American stock market crashed. The United States and the rest of the world soon plummeted into the Great Depression that would last throughout the 1930s, until the world once again went to war.
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