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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.
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.
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.
A plebiscite was held in 1916 in Australia to introduce conscription in order to bolster recruitment rates for the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), which was deployed in Europe fighting in the Great War. The plebiscite was narrowly defeated, but with the war still raging in Europe the question of conscription remained a live one.
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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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 ...
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 .