What happened when

by Barker, Anthony

When was the Melbourne Cup first run? When did women get the vote? When was Vegemite invented? When did Nellie Melba give her last Australian concert? When, indeed, did any noteworthy event happen in Australia? The answers are all in What Happened When. If you want to know what was going on in a particular year, you can browse. In 1932, for example, you will find that the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened, Phar Lap died, the ABC was established, Ion Idriess wrote Flynn of the Inland, Ken Hall directed On Our Selection, Walter Lindrum made a world-record billiards break of 4,137, the basic wage was [pound]3 3s 11d, and over 30 per cent of the workforce was unemployed. The year-by-year arrangement of the text makes it easy to refer to, and the 128-page index is a valuable reference source in itself, providing answers to questions such as: What was Chips Rafferty's real name? When was Germaine Greer born? When was The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll first staged and filmed? Who were the Pri