Mobilising the Masses : Populist Conservative Movements in Australia and New Zealand During the Great Depression.

Intro
Abbreviations
List of figures
Figure 2.1 Occurrence of the phrase 'machine politics' in Australian newspapers, 1926-1935
Figure 4.1 Geographical distribution of members, Citizens' League of South Australia
Figure 4.2 Geographical distribution of members, All for Australia League, New South Wales
Figure 4.3 Geographical distribution of members, Australian Citizens' League, Victoria and New South Wales
Figure 4.4 Age statistics (leadership): All for Australia League
Figure 4.5 Age statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League
Figure 4.6 Age statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion
Figure 4.7 Age statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion
Figure 4.8 Military statistics (leadership): All for Australia League
Figure 4.9 Military statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League
Figure 4.10 Military statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion
Figure 4.11 Military statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion
List of plates
Plate 0.1 The inaugural meeting of the Australian Citizens' League in the Melbourne Town Hall
Plate 0.2 New Zealand Legion cartoon lamenting the lack of unity between political parties during the Great Depression
Plate 1.1 The conjoining of 'Bolshevist savagery' with 'German kultur' in the late 1910s
Plate 1.2 Linking anti-Catholic and anti-Bolshevik prejudices in the late 1910s
Plate 2.1 A 'starvation debenture' lampooning Jack Lang's 'repudiationist' policies during the Depression
Plate 2.2 Cartoon implying that Lang's policies presaged communism 'by stages'
Plate 3.1 Portrait of Robert Campbell Begg, c. 1931
Plate 3.2 Portrait of Alexander J. Gibson, c. 1920s
Plate 3.3 Portrait of Ernest Turnbull, 1931
Plate 3.4 Portrait of Edward Daniel Alexander Bagot, 1938.

Plate 4.1 The Citizens' League of South Australia's 'membership thermometer'
Plate 4.2 Inaugural meeting of the Citizens' League of South Australia at the Adelaide Town Hall
Plate 4.3 Advertisement for a Citizens' League of South Australia 'monster meeting'
Plate 5.1 Australian Citizens' League cartoon in support of Joseph Lyons
Plates 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 Australian Citizens' League billboards in support of Joseph Lyons (after the movement adopted the 'All for Australia League' brand)
Plate 5.5 Cartoon lampooning NSW Nationalist Party leader Thomas Bavin's rocky relationship with the All for Australia League
Plate 5.6 Robert Menzies, president of the National Federation of Victoria, is anointed leader of the United Australia Organisation after failing to consult with the Australian Citizens' League about the change
Plate 6.1 New Zealand Legion cartoon criticising the control of British financiers over the New Zealand economy
Plate 6.2 Cartoon calling for farmers to employ more men so that they can buy farming produce
Plate 6.3 'Caesar's Dilemma': The divisive effect of the New Zealand Legion's policies
Plate 6.4 Robert Campbell Begg arrives in Auckland for a New Zealand Legion meeting
List of tables
Table 4.1 Employment statistics (leadership): All for Australia League
Table 4.2 Employment statistics (leadership): Citizens' League of South Australia
Table 4.3 Employment statistics (leadership): Australian Citizens' League
Table 4.4 Employment statistics (leadership): New Zealand Legion
Table 4.5 Employment statistics (frontline membership): Citizens' League of South Australia
Table 4.6 Employment statistics (frontline membership): New Zealand Legion
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Constructing the citizen: The evolution of conservatism in Australia and New Zealand.

2. From reactionary to radical: The Great Depression and the origins of the citizens' movements
3. Give us a creed: The ideology of the citizens' movements
4. A call to arms: The populist culture of mass conservative mobilisation
5. Flirting with party politics: The Australian citizens' movements and the United Australia Party
6. 'New deals' and 'funny money': The New Zealand Legion and monetary reform
Conclusion
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