When Did the Susso Begin?

By 1932, more than 60,000 people depended on sustenance payments, known as "the susso", merely to survive. This was only for the truly destitute, who had been unemployed for a sustained period of time, and had no assets or savings.

When was the susso introduced?

By 1932 more than 60,000 men, women and children depended on government payments for food, called 'susso' (short for 'sustenance'), which allowed them to buy only small amounts of food.

When did the Great Depression start and end in Australia?

The Depression, set off by the October 1929 Wall Street stock market crash, hit the New South Wales economy with great severity. Unemployment, already high at 10% in mid 1929, was 21% by mid 1930 and rising, hitting almost 32% in mid-1932.