Queue for employment, Castlemaine Perkins Brewery, Milton, c1937. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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Searching for work, c1932. Reprinted in Sunday Sun (Brisbane), 4 October 1987. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

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The Great Depression of the 1930s, when economies crashed world-wide, had a devastating effect on people.

Gold symbolises wealth. It transformed Queensland’s history and landscape.

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