engaged in animated discussions about Australia’s involvement in the international conflict that had begun only weeks earlier, when on 28 July 1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. After ...

Richard Butler was not at the time the Premier, but he had been in 1905 and in 1914 was still a ... 1pm on a Wednesday that Australia got official word that war had broken out between England ...

World War One changed Australia ... As well as trade, Australia was still dependent on industrial capital from Britain, so as the British economy slumped after WWI so did the Australian economy.

On 9 November 1914 the Royal Australian Navy made a major contribution when HMAS Sydney destroyed the German raider SMS Emden.” It added: “For Australia, the First World War remains the ...

Britain’s declaration of war against Germany was greeted with ... holding at its peak almost 1000 Austrian and German internees. In 1914, Australia had been in the midst of a federal election ...

1914. Three years later, President Woodrow Wilson also said that the war will "make the world safe for democracy" to justify his call for a declaration of war on Germany. He was convinced that ...

The first shot of the war, as far as Australia is concerned ... and following so soon upon the news of the declaration of war between Great Britain and Germany, proved that Victorian defences ...

BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — A century to the day after Australian troops broke through Ottoman defenses in a daring World War I victory ... issued a declaration calling for “the establishment ...