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A ‘New Deal’ for Australia: The National Catholic Rural Movement and American agrarianism, 1931–49

Abstract The Great Depression convinced many throughout the 1930s and 1940s that the collapse of industrial capitalism was imminent. Roosevelt’s New Deal and American agrarianism appealed to various thinkers as representing a ‘third way’, an alternative to both capitalism and communism. The National Catholic Rural Movement bore witness to the impact of American ideas on the Australian imagination.