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Interview with Associate Professor Andrew Moore
School of Humanities
University of Western Sydney
Campbellotwn NSW 2570

Click on the questions below to view video interview:
1.

What were the circumstances leading up to Lang's dismissal? (Quicktime 263 k)
2. What was the looming event that shaped politics in NSW during the early 1930s? (Quicktime 273 k)
3. What was the financial context of Lang's dismissal? (Quicktime 307 k)
4. What changed with the election of the Lyons' government in Canberra? (Quicktime 282 k)
5. How was the Lyons' government going to get the money owed from the Lang government? (Quicktime 269 k)
6. What were some of the wilder plans propsed by the Commonwealth to get the money? (Quicktime 269 k)
7. Why was Lang dismissed by Governor Game? (Quicktime 279 k)
8. Was Lang dismissed because the Governor believed he had acted illegally? (Quicktime 222 k)
9. What was the role of the New Guard? (Quicktime 142 k)
10. What was the role of the Old Guard? (Quicktime 317 k)
11. What might have happened if the Old Guard had mobilised? (Quicktime 346 k)
12. What was Game's background? (Quicktime 353 k)
13. What were the concerns of the British Government? (Quicktime 326 k)
14. What was Game's attitude to Lang? (Quicktime 316 k)
15. What were the responses to Lang's dismissal and the subsequent results in electoral terms? (Quicktime 235 k)
16. Is there a correlation between the dismissal of Lang and Whitlam? (Quicktime 389 k)