TWO DISMISSALS

jack lang - gough whitlam

DEMOCRACY? AT WORK?

Lang Dismissal Time Line
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DATE EVENT
November, 1930

Jack Lang party re-elected as majority in the New South Wales Parliament. The Great Depression had just begun across the world.

 

 

 

 

1931

Lang disagreed with the ideas proposed by the Federal Government to solve the problems of the depression - the Niemeyer Plan. Offered counter solutions which were

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lang defaulted on the loan payments to the Commonwealth Government and overseas creditors with the result that

 

 

12 April, 1932

Lang instructed NSW public servants to withhold funds from the Commonwealth - resulting in

May, 1932

Federal Government issued Proclamation No 42 ordering NSW public servants to deal, as directed, with moneys received. This had the effect that

10 May, 1932

Lang issued another circular warning

 

 

Sir Philip Game, Governor, believed that Lang's 10 May circular was

 

and Jack Lang was dismissed

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