To the Last Man and the Last Shilling
This is the date Australia entered WWI alongside Britain.
What is 5 August 1914?
This 1914 law gave sweeping powers to control people and information during the war.
What is the War Precautions Act?
These are the two years in which conscription referendum were held.
What are 1916 and 1917?
These were the main purposes of propaganda during the war.
What is to increase enlistment and support for the war?
These are three kinds of work Australian women did on the home front.
What is clerical, factory or farm work?
He was Prime Minister when Australia entered the war in 1914.
Who is Andrew Fisher?
These were two powers granted by the War Precautions Act.
What are censorship and arrest without trial?
He led the Yes campaign in both referenda and later left the Labor Party.
Who is Billy Hughes?
Artist Norman Lindsay often portrayed Germans using this technique.
What is bestialisation?
Indigenous Australians were initially prevented from enlisting because of this legislation
What is the Defence Act 1903?
This military force was created on 15 August 1914 to send Australians overseas.
What is the Australian Imperial Force (AIF)?
This was the main reason censorship was used on the home front.
How did the Government protect morale and suppress anti-war views?
After the 1916 referendum loss, Hughes split from the Labor Party and formed this new political alliance
What is the Nationalist Party?
Propaganda used this emotional appeal in posters like “It’s Nice in the Surf…”
What is guilt or shame?
This 1917 change allowed some Indigenous Australians to enlist.
What is the relaxation of the Defence Act allowing “half-caste” men to join?
This was the name of the German ship that attempted to flee Port Phillip Bay in August 1914, prompting a warning shot from Fort Nepean.
What is the SS Pfalz?
The government used the War Precautions Act to target this radical group.
What is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?
Archbishop Daniel Mannix opposed conscription for these two reasons.
What are opposition to forced military service and British oppression in Ireland?
Propaganda posters often portrayed Germans as monstrous and inhuman. This term describes the method used to depict the enemy in this way.
What is bestialisation?
These are two ways German Australians were treated during the war.
What are internment and changing of German place names?
According to historian David Day, these were two reasons Australians supported Britain’s war effort.
What are loyalty to the Empire and economic dependence on Britain?
This female activist and founder of the Women’s Peace Army opposed conscription on moral grounds and argued it placed women in an impossible position.
Who is Vida Goldstein?
During the 1917 campaign, Billy Hughes argued that this recent military disaster justified the need for conscription.
What is the Battle of Bullecourt?
This famous anti-conscription poster used a mother and child to stir emotion.
What is “The Blood Vote”?
The IWW opposed the war for this reason, and the government responded how?
What is they saw it as capitalist exploitation and were deported or jailed under the War Precautions Act?