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Image 1 - The 'Little Digger' Billy Hughes being raised high by his fellow Australian troops.
Image 2 - The Spanish Influenza pandemic claimed 10 000 Australian lives.
Image 3 - Socialist and Trade Union protests often ended in violence.
Image 4 - Billy Hughes and the diggers.
Image 5 - Returning Australian soldiers struggled working the land as may of them had never done that type of work before.
Image 6 - The RSSILA instituted the ANZAC Day march, which is held every April 25th.
Image 5 - A 1920s household kitchen
Image 1 - Women worked in various occupations from factory work to nursing and teaching.
Image 2 - Edith Cowan was Australia's first female member of parliament.
Image 3 - A 1920s modern woman
Image 4 - Clara Bow was an icon of the 1920s.
Image 1 - Dr Earle Page. Page had an important role to play in the fate of Australian workers in the 1920s
Image 2 - Prime Minister Stanley Melbourne Bruce came to power in 1923. Out of touch with the plight of workers, Bruce's response to industrial disputes was heavy handed and won him few supporters.
Image 3 - Life in the outback of Australia was difficult and often dangerous.
Image 4 - Melbourne 1924
Image 5 - By 1928 Australians had 500 000 cars, 300 000 radios and 400 000 telephones.
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