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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Australia's first submarine, which sank along with 35 crew members in the early days of World War I, has been found ... The AE1 became the first Allied loss in WW1 when on Sept.

which disappeared during World War I while assisting in the capture of German territory on New Guinea, just north of Australia. The submarine and its companion ship AE2 were deployed in 1914 in ...

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 ...