Papers, [1922-1987]. [1922-1987]

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Papers, [1922-1987]. [1922-1987]

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Papers relating to the policies and ideology of the Social Credit Party. Includes diaries, financial records, correspondence, campaign material, newspaper cuttings, Social Credit publications including periodicals, subject files for anti-fluoridation campaign and anti-communist, anti zionist and anti immigration material. Collection also includes papers relating to the Canadian and New Zealand social credit organisations.

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University of Queensland, UQ Library

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University of Queensland, UQ Library

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Harding, Jackie

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The propagation of Social Credit principles in Queensland in the 1920s and 1930s was largely the work of Brisbane resident W.H. Rhys, not Eric Butler as elsewhere in Australia. Populist, anti- semitic and tightly organised, Social Credit gained wide support during the depressed 1930s. In 1939, 39 Social Credit members stormed the Queensland Parliament. The 1940s saw Butler assume national authority and in 1946 he established The League of Rights. In 1960 the state branches amalgamated to form Th...