Person
Jack Lang
Jack Lang was a Labor premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and from 1930 to 1932. During the Great Depression his Lang Plan called for suspending interest payments to British bondholders, and his government defaulted on payments to the Commonwealth. In May 1932 the state governor, Sir Philip Game, dismissed him, and his party lost the following election.
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