Class and courage: anti-conscriptionists in the Hunter, 1916

Title: Class and courage: anti-conscriptionists in the Hunter, 1916
Creator: Moore, Tod; Williams, Harry
Relation: Radical Newcastle p. 60-68
Relation: https://www.newsouthbooks.com.au/books/radical-newcastle/
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2015
Description: It takes remarkable courage to resist the authority that pervades powerful groups in society. There is no better example to illustrate this point than the debates that tore Australia apart in the middle of the Great War. These debates were triggered by a decision of the Australian Labor Prime Minister, W.M. (Billy) Hughes in 1916 to augment the flow of young men from Australia to the war through conscription for overseas military service. When the decision to introduce conscription was blocked in the Parliament, Hughes made the fateful decision to go to the people with a referendum on 28 October 1916. This failed, so he tried again at the end of the following year, with similar results. The focus of this chapter will be squarely on 1916 and the role played by radical ideologies in contesting conscription.
Subject: World War I; conscription; Hunter Valley; radicalism
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309654
Identifier: uon:21925
Identifier: ISBN:9781742232591
Language: eng

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