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The plebiscite was held due to the Australian Government's desire to increase the recruitment of forces for overseas service to a total of 7,000 men per month. It was conducted under the War Precautions (Military Service Referendum) Regulations 1917. [8] It formed part of the larger debate on conscription in Australia throughout the war.
In November 1917 during World War I, the Australian Government conducted a raid on the Queensland Government Printing Office in Brisbane. The aim of the raid was to confiscate any copies of the Hansard , the official parliamentary transcript, which documented anti-conscription sentiments that had been aired in the state's parliament .
On 29 November 1917, an egg was thrown at the Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes at the Warwick railway station, Queensland, during his campaign for the 1917 plebiscite on conscription. The egg was thrown by Patrick Michael Brosnan, possibly assisted by his brother Bartie Brosnan. [1]
The referendum, held on 28 October 1916, narrowly rejected the proposal. A second plebiscite, held a year later on 20 December 1917, also failed (by a slightly larger margin) to gain a majority. [2] [3] The referendums caused significant debate and division in Australian society, and within the government.
12 December – The Royal Australian Navy battlecruiser HMAS Australia is damaged in a collision with the British cruiser HMS Repulse. 20 December – The second plebiscite on the issue of military conscription was held; it was defeated. Daniel Mannix becomes a Catholic archbishop of Melbourne. He publicly supports Sinn Féin.
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The plebiscite was narrowly defeated, but with the war still raging in Europe the question of conscription remained a live one. When Prime Minister Billy Hughes was decisively re-elected at the 1917 general election , proposing to hold a second plebiscite on the question of conscription, tensions began to flare in the community between ...
During the late 1960s, domestic opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription grew in Australia. In 1965, a group of concerned Australian women formed the anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons, which was established in Sydney with other branches later formed in Wollongong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide. The movement ...