AUSTRALIANA SCARCE
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White Army (Victoria) | Anti-communist movements — Victoria — History — 20th century. | Social conflict — Victoria — History — 20th century. | Victoria — History — 20th century. | Victoria — Social conditions — 20th century.
In the 1930s the threat of Bolshevik revolution in Australia was so real to some people, that groups like the White Army prepared for an uprising to defend the country.
“The significant source for the Ouyen/Wimmera event was Michael Cathcart’s book 1988 ‘Defending the national tuckshop: Australia’s secret army intrigue of 1931’, based I think on his PhD. He used records recently (then) lodged in the La Trobe Library from a guy in the Wimmera who was supposed to destroy them in the 1930s, but had not done so. Another source, on NSW, was Moore, A. 1989 ‘The secret army and the premier Conservative paramilitary organisations in New South Wales 1930-1932.'”