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2 unusual facts about Jack Lang


Balls Head Reserve

The area was proclaimed as a public reserve by Premier Jack Lang in 1926.

Sydney University Labor Club

The first president was H.V. Evatt, however the this first incarnation was short-lived, ceasing to function after a split between Jack Lang and Peter Loughlin in the NSW ALP in 1927.


Andrée Putman

From the 1980s, she led more and more interior design projects: hotels such as Le Lac in Japan, Im Wasserturm in Germany and the Sheraton in Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris; stores for Azzedine Alaia, Balenciaga, Bally and Lagerfeld; offices, particularly the one for French Minister of Culture Jack Lang in 1984; and museums like the CAPC, Bordeaux’s contemporary art museum.

East Sydney by-election, 1931

The by-election was won by Labor candidate Eddie Ward, who was associated with New South Wales Premier Jack Lang's wing of the party.

Mark Gosling

He died in his sleep in Bexley, New South Wales on 3 May 1980 as one of the last surviving members of Jack Lang's 1930 ministry.

Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1930–1933

:3 Adelaide MHA Bob Dale was also expelled from the Labor Party in August 1931 for supporting the rival Lang Plan of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang.

Newcastle by-election, 1935

As Newcastle was the only remaining New South Wales seat held by the federal Labor Party, the by-election was closely fought with the breakaway New South Wales Labor Party, supporters of the controversial former Premier Jack Lang.

Union of the Theatres of Europe

The UTE was founded in 1990 by Jack Lang, then Culture Minister of France, and Italian theater director Giorgio Strehler.


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