Anti-Conscriptionism in Australia: Individuals, Organisations and Arguments
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This chapter explores key individuals and organisations involved in the fight against conscription, and the arguments that they deployed against the proposal. In the end, in a secret ballot system, any conclusions about why people voted the way they did in the plebiscites on conscription held in October 1916 and December 1917 will necessarily be tentative. Leslie C. Jauncey, one of the earliest historians of conscription in Australia, remarked that '[e]xcept in working-class circles there was...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Bongiorno, Frank | |
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dc.contributor.editor | Archer, Robin | |
dc.contributor.editor | Damousi, Joy | |
dc.contributor.editor | Goot, Murray | |
dc.contributor.editor | Scalmer, Sean | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-05-10T23:46:41Z | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781925377224 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/264746 | |
dc.description.abstract | This chapter explores key individuals and organisations involved in the fight against conscription, and the arguments that they deployed against the proposal. In the end, in a secret ballot system, any conclusions about why people voted the way they did in the plebiscites on conscription held in October 1916 and December 1917 will necessarily be tentative. Leslie C. Jauncey, one of the earliest historians of conscription in Australia, remarked that '[e]xcept in working-class circles there was a tendency for opponents of compulsion to keep their peace'. But active anti-conscriptionists did talk incessantly about freedom; and, in a society where British culture provided so many of the resources of political discourse, it seems plausible that appeals to British liberty had a resonance among 'silent' voters wary of handing over to government greater power over the lives of its citizenry than the state already possessed. | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | |
dc.publisher | Monash University Publishing | |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Conscription Conflict and the Great War | |
dc.relation.isversionof | 1st Edition | |
dc.rights | © Copyright 2016 ©Copyright of this collection in its entirety is held by the editors, Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Murray Goot and Sean Scalmer. © Copyright of the individual chapters is held by the respective authors. | |
dc.title | Anti-Conscriptionism in Australia: Individuals, Organisations and Arguments | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 210303 - Australian History (excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u3555277xPUB266 | |
local.publisher.url | https://publishing.monash.edu/books/ | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Bongiorno, Frank, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.description.embargo | 2099-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 68 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 91 | |
local.identifier.absseo | 970121 - Expanding Knowledge in History and Archaeology | |
dc.date.updated | 2020-12-27T07:27:59Z | |
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublication | Melbourne | |
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