Conscription in Australia in WW1
To answer this question you will need to research these issues:
After three years of bloody conflict the ready supply of troops to the Front was drying up. Australia was faced with a problem: how to maintain the numbers necessary to fight the war. The number of volunteers had fallen and Australia had to decide whether people should be forced to fight.
The Conscription Debate had begun.You are going to research the conscription issue with a view to establishing your answer to this basic question:
Should Australians be conscripted to fight in WW1?
- How was the war going by the start of 1917?
What is the definition of conscription?
Why was conscription regarded as necessary by 1917?
Who were the people involved in the conscription 'debate', and why?
How was the conscription issue 'debated'?
Who won the 'debate'?
