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'''The Susso''' is an Australian slang term referring to "sustenance" ([[welfare]]) payments, especially during the [[Great Depression in Australia|Great Depression]]. "Susso" could also be used as a noun, for someone depending on such payments,<ref>Ramson, W. S. ''The Australian National Dictionary'' p.652 Oxford University Press 1988 ((ISBN|0-19-554736-5))</ref> often unsympathetically.

==Background==

By late 1929, the [[Great Depression]] had hit all Western countries.

== Causes ==

The prices of wool and wheat — two of the nation’s biggest exports — had been in rapid decline. Overseas investments and loans started to disappear. As money became tight, there was a large decrease on spending on public work, which led to an increase in unemployment. 
The unemployment was further exacerbated by the falling income from primary producers. At the end of 1929, Australia's unemployment 
rate sat at around 13%. By 1932, it had peaked at a staggering 29%.

== Effects ==

Though the downturn in the economy had a much greater effect on the lives of the poor, not even the very rich could ignore the situation, as evidence of the Depression could be found everywhere. It was seen in the [[Unemployment benefits#Australia|dole]] queues, [[Soup kitchen#History|soup kitchens]] doling out [[Staple food|staple]], filling foods, such as bread and potatoes, and [[shanty town]]s that sprang up across the nation. The Depression was illustrated by the estimated 40,000 homeless who had to create makeshift accommodation in public parks and fields and by the men that went wandering—"on the track"—in search of work during this time, or even food, known as [[swagmen]]. These men, estimated to be somewhere around 30,000 in number, had to report to a police station every week, where they could claim very basic rations of food.

== The susso ==

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. Relief was state-based; in [[South Australia]], it was in the form of rations and vouchers.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article55933644 A Wife Intervenes] ''The Mail (Adelaide)'' 7 August 1937 p.7 accessed 25 July 2011</ref> At a time when the basic wage was £2/11/8d,<!-- 1/4d per hour for 40hrs --> "the susso" in [[Queensland]] was 3s. to 4/6d per child. "Many spend more than that on a dog", one speaker was quoted as saying.<ref>[http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41786529 Actual Poverty in Land of Plenty] ''Cairns Post'' Saturday 7 November 1936 p.6 accessed 25 July 2011<br/>£2/11/8d and 3s. translate to around $800 and $45 in today's money.</ref> Numerous campaigns took place around Australia in which community members carried out protests over inadequate levels of sustenance and the invasive and patronising treatment of recipients. In many cases these forced authorities to make improvements.<ref>((Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Iain |date=2020-08-31 |title=Jim Munro and the Unemployed Workers Movement in the 1920s and 1930s |url=https://commonslibrary.org/jim-munro-and-the-unemployed-workers-movement-in-the-1920s-and-1930s/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU))</ref><ref>((Cite web |last=Stone |first=Janey |date=2022-06-22 |title=Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years |url=https://commonslibrary.org/women-fighting-back-in-the-depression-years/ |access-date=2023-02-28 |website=The Commons Social Change Library |language=en-AU))</ref>

It was immortalised in a contemporary children’s rhyme (probably based on "[[You're in the Army Now (song)|You're in the Army Now]]", a [[World War I]] song featured in [[intertitles]] of the 1925 [[King Vidor]] silent film ''[[The Big Parade]]''):
:"We’re on the susso now,
:We can’t afford a cow,
:We live in a tent,
:We pay no rent,
:We’re on the susso now."<ref>Carter, J. ''All Things Wild'' p.7 cited in ''The Australian National Dictionary'' Ed. W. S. Ramson, Oxford University Press 1988 ((ISBN|0-19-554736-5))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* ((YouTube|u97nM6w6Zu8|We're On The Susso Now))

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[[Category:Great Depression]]
[[Category:Slang]]
[[Category:Economic history of Australia]]
[[Category:Social security in Australia]]

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