The First Dismissal – Part One: The Last Days of Jack Lang
On this day 90 years ago, firebrand NSW Premier Jack Lang was sacked by Governor Sir Phillip Game.
In this first of two instalments, we look at Lang's early life and business career, the scandalous aspect of his personal life and his embrace of the White Australia policy, his political rise and the massive opposition he faced from his own party, from big business, from the newspapers and from the fascist New Guard. Then, in early May 1932, during the worst of the Great Depression, Lang's collision with the Commonwealth government threatened chaos and civil violence.
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