Jack Lang (Australian politician) - Wikipedia
Lang was a powerful orator, and during the crisis of the Depression, he addressed huge crowds in Sydney and other centres, promoting his populist program and denouncing his opponents and the wealthy in extravagant terms. His followers promoted the slogans "Lang is Right" and "Lang is Greater than Lenin."
The Rise and Fall of Jack Lang, Australia’s Renegade Labor
2021年2月27日 · Jack Lang is the only Australian political figure from as far back as the Great Depression who still has a hold on popular memory. A renegade Labor leader and a populist, Lang led the New South Wales (NSW) Labor Party from 1923 to 1939 and served as NSW premier twice, in 1925–27 and 1930–32.
Jack Lang | Labor Leader, Premier of NSW & Politician | Britannica
Jack Lang was an Australian statesman and Labor premier of New South Wales (1925–27, 1930–32) whose defiance of Australia’s Labor prime minister James Henry Scullin’s economic policies contributed to Scullin’s defeat in 1931 and to …
1932 'Lang is Right' badge - Labor History
Returning to Sydney, Premier Jack Lang almost immediately repudiated the Melbourne Agreement, thus confronting the Federal Labor government. The most important ingredient of the subsequent 'Lang Plan' was that there should be a moratorium on repaying debt so that any government revenues could be spent…
Jack Lang (Australian politician) - WikiMili
2024年12月13日 · Lang was a powerful orator, and during the crisis of the Depression, he addressed huge crowds in Sydney and other centres, promoting his populist program and denouncing his opponents and the wealthy in extravagant terms. His followers promoted the slogans "Lang is Right" and "Lang is Greater than Lenin."
Jack Lang and the Labor Party Archives - Labor History
Returning to Sydney, Premier Jack Lang almost immediately repudiated the Melbourne Agreement, thus confronting the Federal Labor government. The most important ingredient of the subsequent 'Lang Plan' was that there should be a moratorium on repaying debt so that any government revenues could be spent…
Badge - Lang is Right, Australia, 1925-1932
Badge, alternatively known as a button, depicting controversial and divisive New South Wales labor politician Jack Lang. Lang was premier of New South Wales from 1925 - 1927 and 1930 - 1932. His period in office was marked by considerable social reforms.
John Thomas (Jack) Lang - Australian Dictionary of Biography
John Thomas (Jack) Lang (1876-1975), estate agent and politician, was born on 21 December 1876 in George Street, Sydney, son of James Henry Lang, watchmaker of Edinburgh, and his wife Mary, née Whelan, of Galway, Ireland.
Jack Lang [Premier of New South Wales 1925-27, 1930-32]
The slogan "Lang is right" had become the watchword of Sydney's unemployed. In 1933 Lang further developed his ideas on finance; he came to advocate views which took the best from Social Credit (while removing the obvious nonsense) and pushed for the "socilaisation of credit", i.e. using the Reserve Bank to provide funds for capital creation ...
Jack Lang: ‘Greater than Lenin’? - Red Flag
2023年3月9日 · On the other side of the class divide, workers proclaimed “Lang is right”. Faced with the mass unemployment and misery of the Great Depression and following the abject capitulation of the Scullin federal Labor government to employers’ demands for harsh austerity measures, masses of workers viewed Lang as the only Labor leader prepared to ...