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  1. When Australia voted no to war: the 1916-17 conscription referenda

    world was permitted to vote on whether it would conscript its young men for war.鈥 She considered its ... saying: 鈥淪o long as Australia hung on to the old country, so long would she be involved in the wars of ... opposition to forcing young men into this war in a rare case of ordinary people being allowed to vote on ...

  2. Conscription conflicts in WWI well detailed in new book

    those who died from the influenza pandemic. A war on such a scale was not conducted without much ... the English-speaking countries involved in the war, with a particular focus on Australia as the one ... provides detailed insights into Liberal thinking on conscription in England before and during the war, and ...