When did Jack Lang die?
September 27, 1975
Jack Lang/Date of death
What happened Jack Lang?
The 1932 dismissal of Premier Jack Lang by New South Wales Governor Philip Game was the first real constitutional crisis in Australia. Lang remains the only Australian premier to be removed from office by his governor, using the reserve powers of the Crown.
Where did Jack Lang live?
In the mid-1880s, due to his parents’ poverty, he was sent to live with his mother’s sister on a small rural property near Bairnsdale, in the Gippsland region of Victoria, attending for about four years the local Catholic school. Lang returned to New South Wales in the early 1890s to seek employment, aged 14.
How did Australia survive the Great Depression?
Australia’s recovery during the 1930s was led by the manufacturing sector. Federation in 1901 had granted only limited power to the federal government. For example, income taxes were collected by the State governments.
Who was John Lang and what did he do?
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.
When did Jack Lang have his first child?
The Langs lived with the McNamaras and their first child was born in June. By 1899 Lang was an accountant’s clerk in R. Harley’s real estate office at Auburn. In 1901 he and H. H. Dawes became land agent and auctioneering partners there.
What kind of religion was Jack Lang’s father?
Although Lang’s father had been born Presbyterian, he later became a Catholic like his wife, and the family “fitted into the normal low social stratum of the great majority of Sydney’s Catholics”.
When did Jack Lang leave the Labor Party?
After Labor’s defeat at the 1927 election, Lang was Opposition Leader again from 1927 to October 1930. After New South Wales returned to single-member electorates, Lang was elected as the member for Auburn, a seat he held until he left state politics in 1946.