World War I conscription in Australia | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-06-13

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00:01:05 1 Conscription debate
00:02:30 2 The role of women
00:03:48 3 The referendum process
00:04:39 4 Daniel Mannix
00:05:35 5 Billy Hughes
00:07:19 6 See also



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During the second half of World War One, the First Australian Imperial Force experienced a shortage of men as the number of men volunteering to fight overseas declined and the casualty rate increased. At the time, military service within the Commonwealth of Australia and its territories was compulsory for Australian men, but that requirement did not extend to conflict outside of Australia. In 1916, Prime Minister Billy Hughes called a plebiscite to determine public support for extending conscription to include military service outside the Commonwealth for the duration of the war. 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.The referenda caused significant debate and division in Australian society, and within the government. Hughes called the first referendum against the advice of his own Labor government, which led to the Labor party splitting, with Hughes and others forming a new National Labor Party.