Australia during World War I (ft. Knights in Shining Llama)

In this video, Mr. Mitchell will explain what happened to Australia on the homefront and at the Imperial Conferences, with a major focus on the conscription plebiscite. Having defeated Joseph Cook in the 1914 election, Australian soldiers then landed at the beaches in Gallipoli in 1915 to open up a supply route to Russia.

Unfortunately for Fisher, he had no idea that this plan was actually happening. After suddenly resigning in 1915, Australia was to be led by a new face, Billy Hughes. Hughes would then go on to divide the nation with two controversial attempts at enforcing conscription and then take on Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George at the peace conferences. There was no question that this is one of the most dramatic chapters in Australian political history.

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