Past Programs
Depression (1930s) - 2008
Don Dunstan
14/08/2008
Don Dunstan was born in 1926, and grew up between two very different worlds—the years spent in Fiji, where his Australian father was a manager for the Adelaide Steamship Company, and his time in South Australia, where he lived with relatives in the small town of Murray Bridge and attended boarding school in Adelaide.
This experience, and a childhood set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, had a lasting influence on Don Dunstan's later life—as a lawyer, as a sometime socialist and, later, as a politician. When the ALP won the 1970 election, Dunstan became premier of South Australia. He held the positon until 1979. Don Dunstan died in 1999.
