Unemployed men clashed with police in protest at the replacement of beef with mutton on their ration tickets
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Corinne Ball, Migration Museum, ‘Beef Riot’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/milestone/beef-riot/
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Advertiser, 10 January 1931, ‘Story of scene at Treasury Building’, p9
Border Watch, 13 January 1931,’ The Adelaide riot’, p3
Broomhill, Ray, ‘The social history of Adelaide during the Depression’, typescript, 197?
Broomhill, Ray, Unemployed workers: A social history of the great depression in Adelaide (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1978)
News, 15 January 1931, ‘Unemployed demands’, p15
News, 9 January 1931, ‘Riot in Adelaide streets after unemployed parade’, p1
State Library of South Australia, OH24/18, Interview with Wally Bourne, 1978
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