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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.
Early in 1917, the two then merged into the Nationalist Party of Australia and won the May election, with Hughes pledging to resign if again defeated at the plebiscite in December that year. The question was defeated by a yet greater margin this time, and Hughes honored his promise to resign—only to be reinstated as prime minister by the ...
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.
1917 Billy Hughes (1862–1952) The Nationalists form a government under Billy Hughes. A second plebiscite on conscription is held and is defeated again in 1917. 22 53 75 Election Year Prime Minister Summary Labor Nationalist Various Agrarian Parties [1] - Independent Other parties Total seats 8th 1919 Billy Hughes (1862–1952)
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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 ...
Conscription in Australia, also known as National Service following the Second World War, has a controversial history which dates back to the implementation of compulsory military training and service in the first years of Australia's nationhood. Military conscription for peacetime service was abolished in 1972.
The 1917 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 5 May 1917. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party , led by Prime Minister Billy Hughes , defeated the opposition Labor Party led by Frank Tudor in a landslide.