Pros And Cons Of Ww1

The Experience of WW1 on Australia’s home front led to all Australian men to enlist for war in support of Great Britain ‘the mother country’ meant Australia was at war. The Australian home front was affect due to many effects of WW1 such as, conscription, government power, Gallipoli .Conscription was called on in 1916 by prime minster Hughes, when the Australian army needs troops to fight in war, but there aren’t enough volunteers, he began conscription which is a law that says if you are able to fight, you have to fight. In 1916 prime minster Hughes suggested raising the numbers of Australian troops to maintain the full strength at the front line, by conscripting those who are unwilling or opposed to enlist in war. Conscription affected those

There was a political debate over governments wish to bring in conscription. Many people had sons, bothers, husband fighting in the frontline knew there were a shortage of men and feared that this would lead to injuries or deaths of their loved ones. There were many pros and anti-conscription forces. The pro of conscription were that Australian units had very high causalities because they were often used as front line troops. Voluntary enlistment had dropped, but the Australian governments committed to the British government to maintain a substantial army. The government tried various tactics to increase the rates of recruitments, including lowering standards for enlistments and promoting propaganda to convince men that they should volunteer. The issues of conscription was opposed by the people and churches for several reasons. In Victoria the campaign was led by the Irish archbishop, Daniel Mannix. There 921,000 catholic in Australia at the time, most of these catholic were of Irish descent. The Irish Catholic Church also dominated the labour party and the labour movement. The views of church leaders were heard in parliaments and public debate. Other Australians developed an understanding of the horror of the conditions on the western front. In the end issues was decided by a referendum, which was put to the Australian public twice in October 1916 and

Although the defeat, the bravery and sacrifices associated with the eight month struggle that had profound Australians views during this period. The first newspaper report on the Australian landing in Gallipoli was published. This created and audience of those who were, about Australian soldier’s reputation for being undisciplined, concerned that Australians behaved poorly during military engagements, wanted to see Australian at soldiers’ least equal effort to British troops. Pride in the Anzac’s showed propaganda poster. For nearly hundreds years Australians promoted the Anzac’s legend concept of Gallipoli as ‘baptism of fire’ and the Australian soldier at Gallipoli has created Australia’s national