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The New Southern Cross by Claude Marquet. The 1916 Australian referendum, concerning how conscripted soldiers could be deployed, was held on 28 October 1916. It was the first non-binding Australian referendum (often referred to as a plebiscite because it did not involve a constitutional question), and contained one proposition, which was Prime Minister Billy Hughes' proposal to allow ...
On 30 August 1916, he announced plans for a referendum on the issue (the 1916 Australian conscription referendum), and introduced enabling legislation into parliament on 15 September, which passed only with the support of the opposition. Six of Hughes's ministers resigned in protest at the move, and the New South Wales state branch of the Labor ...
Hughes, however, knew that he did not need to create a new law but could just amend the old one to include conscription via a democratic referendum. As a result, on 28 October 1916, an advisory referendum was held to decide whether the community of Australia supported conscription. The vote was rejected, and Hughes was sacked from the Labor Party.
The Australian Century: The Political Struggle in the Building of a Nation. Text Publishing. ISBN 978-1875847211. McKinley, Brian (1979). A Documentary History of the Australian Labor Movement 1850–1975. Drummond. ISBN 0-909081-29-8. Scates, Bob (1988). Draftmen Go Free: A History of the Anti-Conscription Movement in Australia (PDF).
Pressured by British leaders for increased Australian participation in the war effort, Labor Prime Minister Billy Hughes announced his intention to hold a national referendum on compulsory military conscription in October 1916. After a particularly bitter campaign, a majority of Australians voted against the proposal, the issue splitting the ...
28 February – Frank Crean, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2008) 14 April – Don Willesee, Western Australian politician (d. 2003) 11 July – Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia (d. 2014) 29 July – Sir Rupert Hamer, 39th Premier of Victoria (d. 2004) 27 August – Sir James Ramsay, 20th Governor of Queensland (d. 1986)
In the past, however the terms were used interchangeably, [6] [7] [8] with the non-constitutional 1916 Australian conscription referendum and the 2009 Western Australian daylight saving referendum being examples. Voting in a referendum is compulsory for those on the electoral roll, in the same way that it is compulsory to vote in a general ...
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.