Allan Martin, Janet Penny, Clem Lloyd, Pat Troy, Carolyn Allport and Michael Howard present their papers at the Post-war reconstruction seminar [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2227463
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Martin, A. W. (Allan William), 1926-2002, speaker
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 3 Sept. 1981
- 6 tape reel (ca. 188 min.) : 7 1/2 ips., 2 track stereo ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Post-war reconstruction seminar.
- Summary:
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Allan Martin and Janet Penny talk about Australia's rural situation in the early 1940s; the Atlantic Charter; relevance of the Farmers Relief Board; decision to appoint a Rural Reconstruction Commission; Commission members; contributions to the Commission by Wadham, Judd and Lambert; Commission's terms of reference; Chifley's expections; Dept. of Post-War Reconstruction; 'Rural Reconstruction' bulletin; research undertaken; reports produced between 1944 and 1946; procedures of reports; confidentiality; difficulties; late release of reports; Agricultural Council's adoption of Commonwealth proposals; prescriptions for the coordination of land use and settlement; Land Utilization Council; uncertainty about market prospects; vision of a capitalist rural economy.
Clem Lloyd and Pat Troy speak of home ownership; growing awareness of the problems of bad housing in the early 20th Century; Hawthorne's Bill, 1910; Workers Dwelling Scheme; S.A. Advances to Homes Act, 1910; W.A. Workers Homes Act, 1912; Victorian Workers Dwelling Act, 1914; Credit Foncier loans; NSW Housing Act, 1912; Dacey Garden suburb; Agricultural Bank of Tasmania; War Service Homes Act, 1919; Commonwealth Housing Act, 1928; Commonwealth Savings Bank; Frederick Stewart and the national housing policy; the Depression and the building industry; slum clearance and re-housing; establishment of the Commonwealth Housing Commission; interim reports; Model Housing Act; public housing; Commonwealth's role; policy for urban and regional development; War Housing Division, Dept. of Labor and National Service; Dept of Works and Housing; building standards; Commonwealth discouragement of home ownership; economic rents; implementation of the rental housing program; housing and capitalism; political support of home ownership; Home Builders Account; creation of the Federal Housing Dept.; fall in the number of public houses available for rent; achievement of the CSHA.
Carolyn Allport speaks of women's hopes from reconstruction; Flora Eldershaw and women's reconstruction problems; Georgina Sweet's relations with Eldershaw; Eldershaw's investigatory fields; the appointment of Mary Margaret Ryan to the Commonwealth Housing Commission, 1943; criticism of Kathleen Best and Mary Ryan's appointments; Ryan's house and her attitude to housework; Australian Women's Conference for Victory in War and Victory in Peace; the Australian Women's Charter; low status of women; application of modern scientific equipment to the home; mass production of standardised kitchen and laundry equipment; reductions in workload through house and kitchen design; relationship between housing standards and the birthrate; semi-isolation of women; need for cultural outlets for women; integrated communities; community centres; decentralisation of facilities; Housing Improvement Board estimation of housing; women's desire to stay in inner city slums; problems faced in the outer suburbs; Re-establishment and Employment Bill; pressures on women to return to the home after the War.
Michael Howard speaks of the main domestic objectives of post war reconstruction; Full Employment White Paper; the building industry in the 1930s; demands on the building industry during the war; Constitution Alteration (Post War Reconstruction) Bill; Commonwealth Housing Commission reports; expanded Commonwealth role in the building industry; housing targets and demand projections; 'indicative planning' for housing construction manpower; design and management innovation; public housing authorities and bulk purchase of materials; establishment of the Commonwealth Experimental Building Station; controls; transition period, problems and limitations; post war shortages; Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme; Ten Year Plan, 1946; pre-fabricated buildings; Commonwealth assistance, 1946-1949; housing shortage; conference on building materials production; BWIU and semi nationalization; Commonwealth Prices Commission; Displaced Persons Program; Beaufort Homes project; Commonwealth Building Research Advisory Committee; economic and industrial statistics collection.
- Biography/History:
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Allan Martin is a Senior Fellow in the History Dept., Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.
Jane Penny is a Research Assistant at the Australian National University.
Carolyn Allport teaches Australian History, Economic History, Women's History and Urban Politics at Macquarie University.
Michael Howard completed a Ph.D in History at Sydney University in 1978 on the Growth in the domestic economic and social role of the Commonwealth Government in Australia, 1937-49, some aspects.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at the Australian National University, Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
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- Allan Martin and Janet Penny present 'The Rural Reconstruction Commission'
- Clem Lloyd and Pat Troy present 'The Commonwealth Housing Commission and a national housing policy'
- Carolyn Allport presents 'The Princess in the castle: women and the new order housing'
- Michael Howard presents 'Beyond full employment: the nature and scope of Commonwealth intervention in the building industry during post war reconstruction, 1941-49'
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