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	HOME - Conscription in Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Australian Government Cabinet documents released by Australian National Arcһives in 2001 sһow tһat in 1970 tһe conservative Government were initially concerned about tһe growtһ of conscientious objection and outrigһt opposition to tһe National Service Act.
		Tһe Australian plebiscite¸ 1916 was һeld on tһe 28tһ October 1916 and narrowly rejected conscription witһ a margin of 49% for and 51% against.
		A Australian plebiscite¸ 1917 was һeld on December 20 1917 ¸ and was defeated by a greater margin.
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	Harry Knowles \| Arthur Rae : a 'Napoleon' in Exile \| Labour History, 87 \| The History Cooperative
		By the end of the 1890s, it was clear that the fledgling Australian union movement was in no condition to continue an offensive against capital, and despite his obvious passion for the cause, Rae was pragmatic enough to realise this.
		In was on Rae's motion that the 1916 NSW Labor conference resolved to oppose conscription overseas which was to produce 'a chain of expulsions' from the party including W.G. Spence.
		The South Australian Branch secretary, Frank Lundie argued that the AWU did not permit sections inside the union and that the Group had 'put themselves outside the pale of the organisation'.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lab/87/knowles.html (9989 words)

	Timeline-191 Encyclopedia Article @ Hostilities.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bitter over their treatment by the whites, and fueled by a rhetoric of Marxism and the teachings of Abraham Lincoln, the fls declared Red revolution in several areas across the CSA and established "socialist republics," while massacring whites and seeking justice against their former white masters; most trials were shams, however, and the executions brutal.
		In mid-spring of 1916, a new armored technical advance called the "barrel" (referred to as a tank by the British) was introduced to combat for the first time by US forces operating in the Roanoke Valley.
		So was Sequoyah (which was placed under occupation), and western Texas, which the USA admitted into the Union in 1917 as the state of Houston, with its capital at Lubbock.
	www.hostilities.org /encyclopedia/Timeline-191 (8469 words)

	Persons Missing : Home of The Missing Persons Register - Australiana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		When the Australian colonies federated to form the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901, the Union Jack had been the official flag for 100 years to the day.
		The Federal Government encourages the flying of the Australian national flag by all Australians and is committed to retaining and promoting pride in the flag and actively encourages all Australians to be aware of, and proud of, their country’s identity.
		In 1974 the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducted a national opinion poll of 60,000 and in 1977 a plebiscite for a national song was conducted.
	www.personsmissing.org /australiana.html (2221 words)

	Appendix 8: Notes on Some Personalities
		The result was a fine of £50 on each of two counts in default 6 months' gaol and costs and was to enter into recognisances totalling £200 (two of £100 each) to observe the regulations for the period of the war.
		On 3rd March 1916, he was elected as leader of the Party, but ceded the position to Holman almost immediately after his election to the position.
		It was resolved that the executive be requested to expel him from the Australian Labor Party as the members of the Balmain league consider his actions as Mayor of Balmain are a violation of his pledge to the Australian Labor Party.
	www.takver.com /history/myunion/myunionapp08.htm (5926 words)

	How Labour Governs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		But emptiness is not to be reckoned by the population per square mile, but by the number which the country is actually capable of supporting and, when this is taken into consideration, the disproportion between the immense acreage of Australian soil and her meagre population becomes less striking.
		The unfavourable position of the Australian trade balance at the beginning of the war was reversed by 1916-17, when the percentage of exports to imports reached 128.5.
		From 1916 to 1919 the industrialist section dominated the Executive in N.S.W., and they were obsessed with the idea of controlling the politicians.
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	AUSTRALIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Australian Flag came into being after the the federation of the Australian States into the Commonwealth of Australian on 1 January, 1901.
		The outer diameter is 3/5 the width of the Union Jack (3/10 the width of the fly) and the inner diameter is 4/9 the outer diameter.
		The stars of the Southern Cross represent Australia's geographic positioin in the Southern Hemisphere; the Commonwealth star stands for the federation of States and Territories; the Crosses represent the principles on which the nation is based, namely: parliamentary democraxy, rule of law, and freedom of speech.
	www.heathheathens.com /Australia.htm (2287 words)

	11 March: This Date in History
		He was bullied into canceling the plebiscite, and he obediently resigned, ordering the Austrian Army not to resist the Germans.
		A “Plebiscite” was set for 10th April on the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, which was only a mockery.
		Following a sequence of teaching and electronics jobs, he returned to graduate studies and, in 1916, received a doctorate in electrical engineering that was awarded jointly by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), then located in Boston, and Harvard University, in nearby Cambridge.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4mar/h4mar11.html (11855 words)

	Prime Minister - Joseph Benedict Chifley.
		He was totally opposed to conscription and in 1916, took a leading part in Bathurst's anti-conscription movement when the Prime Minister WM Hughes moved to introduce conscription to boost flagging enlistments for the war in Europe.
		In a 1916 plebiscite, the conscription proposal was only narrowly defeated.
		New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party, The Light on the Hill, with a foreword by J.A. Ferguson, The Party, Paddington, New South Wales, 1951.
	www.gavmag.com /austpm/pm_chifley.htm (2449 words)

	Department of the Parliamentary Library - Referendums on alterations to the Constitution of the Commonwealth
		Including 133 813 votes by members of the Australian* Imperial Forces, of which 72 399 were for, 58 894 against, and 2520 informal.
		* Including 199 677 votes by members of the Australian Imperial Forces, of which 103 789 were for, 93 910 against, and 1978 informal.
		The Whitlam Government, following the result of a public opinion poll conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, changed the anthem to Advance Australia Fair, except on specifically royal occasions.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/elect/referend/pleb.htm (312 words)

	West Papua Information Kit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		West Papuans saved many American and Australian lives (see war photos) while Gen. MacArthur built his Pacific HQ and bases in West Papua for the safety afforded by our Papuan Allies.
		Of fourty years of world silence as the Indonesian military executed the members of government, as the population has been bombed by aircraft donated by the United States to the Indonesian military; of colonial occupation by a Asian power of a Pacific nation.
		Of a gold mine and gas project that have no intention of allowing West Papua to have the plebiscite which East Timor had in 1999 and which West Papua was meant to have in 1969.
	www.fandom.net (1232 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Mexican Punitive Expedition (1916-1917) - Apr. 13th, 2003
		With congressional approval of the National Defense Act on June 3, 1916, National Guard units from the remainder of the states and the District of Columbia were also called for duty on the border.
		Its purpose was to recognize the National Guardsmen and regular army troops mobilized to patrol the Mexican border between 1916 and 1917.
		From March to July 1916, QM Truck Companies delivered over 4,000 tons of supplies and hundreds of troops to Pershing’s mobile force, validating the truck’s worth.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/892090/posts (9619 words)

	Periodbot output starting #21056912
		This [[plebiscite]] was held due to the Government's desire to increase the available forces for overseas service during the ongoing [[World War I]].
		It was conducted under the ''Military Service Referendum Act 1916''
		'''Carpathian''' are an [[Australia]]n [[hardcore punk]] band from the [[Mornington Peninsula]], [[Victoria]].
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