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Government. The Cabinet instead insisted he approach Curtin again to form a war cabinet. Unable to secure Curtin's support, and with an unworkable parliamentary majority, Menzies resigned as prime minister and leader of the UAP on 29 August 1941. He was succeeded as prime minister by Fadden, the leader of the Country Party, who held office for a month.
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government in the Southern World". In April 1944, Curtin held talks on postwar planning with President Franklin Roosevelt of the US and with Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain and gained agreement for the Australian economy to begin transitioning from military to post-war economy. He returned to Australia and campaigned for an unsuccessful
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The Japanese air force made 97 air raids against Australia over a 19-month period starting with Darwin in February 1942 until 1943. The Darwin area was hit 64 times. Horn Island was struck 9 times, Broome and Exmouth Gulf 4 times, Townsville and Millingimbi three times, Port Hedland and Wyndham twice
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opposition led by Robert Menzies, Curtin struggled with exhaustion and a heavy work load – excusing himself from Parliamentary question time and unable to concentrate on the large number of parliamentary bills being drafted dealing with the coming peace. Curtin returned to hospital in April with lung
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with 295 other internees, mostly families. There, armed soldiers manned watchtowers and scanned the camp that was bordered by a barbed wire fence with searchlights, and other armed soldiers patrolled the camp. Petitions to Australian politicians, stressing that they were Jewish refugees and therefore
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When Curtin died towards the end of the Second World War in July 1945, Forde served as prime minister from 6–13 July, before the party elected Ben Chifley as Curtin's successor. Following his 1945 election as leader of the Labor Party, Chifley, a former railway engine driver, became Australia's 16th
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In August 1941, Cabinet decided that Menzies should travel back to Britain to represent Australia in the War Cabinet, but this time the Labor caucus refused to support the plan. Menzies announced to his Cabinet that he thought he should resign and advise the Governor-General to invite Curtin to form
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countries as were their enemy aliens for internment in Australia. About 7,000 residents were interned by Australia, including more than 1,500 British nationals. A further 8,000 people were sent to Australia to be interned after being detained overseas by Australia's allies. At its peak in 1942, more
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almost 100 times. Most elements of the Australian I Corps, including the 6th and 7th Divisions, returned to Australia in early 1942 to counter the perceived Japanese threat to Australia. All RAN's ships in the Mediterranean were also withdrawn to the Pacific but most RAAF units in the Middle
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As the end of the war approached, Curtin sought to firm up Australian influence in the South Pacific following the war but also sought to ensure a continuing role for the British Empire, calling Australia "the bastion of British institutions, the British way of life and the system of democratic
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was appointed Director-General of Munitions Supply to assist with mobilisation of national resources. However, in spring 1940, the coal miners under communist leadership struck for higher wages for 67 days. On 15 June 1940 the Menzies government suppressed 10 communist and fascist parties and
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placing virtually all of Australia's newspapers, radio stations, and film industry under the direct control of the Director-General of Information. Newspaper publishers complained it was a blow struck at the freedom of the press. In January 1941, new regulations were directed against speaking
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prime minister on 13 July 1945. The Second World War ended with the defeat of Japan in the Pacific just four weeks later. Curtin is widely regarded as one of the country's greatest prime ministers. General MacArthur said that Curtin was "one of the greatest of the wartime statesmen".
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Menzies proposed an all party unity government to break the impasse, but the Labor Party refused to join. Curtin agreed instead to take a seat on a newly created Advisory War Council in October 1940. Cameron resigned as Country Party leader in October 1940, to be replaced by
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in August. Labor won 49 seats to 12 United Australia Party, 7 Country Party, 3 Country National Party (Queensland), 1 Queensland Country Party, 1 Liberal Country Party (Victoria) and 1 Independent. The Labor Party also won all 19 of the seats contested for the
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organizations as subversive of the war effort. Police and army intelligence made hundreds of raids that night, and later broke up public meetings in the capital cities. In July 1940, the Menzies government imposed regulations under the
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in August 1940 resulted in the death of the Chief of the General Staff and three senior ministers. The Labor Party meanwhile experienced a split along pro- and anti-Communist lines over policy towards the Soviet Union for its
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campaigns, Menzies re-organised his ministry and announced multiple multi-party committees to advise on war and economic policy. Government critics however called for an all-party government.
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in September, the UAP–Country Party Coalition and the Labor parties each won 36 seats and the Menzies Government was forced to rely on the support of two Independents to continue in office.
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to extend government powers to tax, acquire property, control businesses and the labour force and allow for conscription of men for the "defence of Australia". Essington Lewis, the head of
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Willis, Ian C, "The women's voluntary services, a study of war and volunteering in Camden, 1939–1945" PhD thesis, School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong, 2004.
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sent to defend Singapore were sunk by Japan. British Malaya quickly collapsed, shocking the Australian population. British, Indian and Australian troops made a disorganised
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disloyalty in public or even in private. The regulations were aimed at "whisperers" who undermined morale by spreading false rumours. During World War II many
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Australian women were encouraged to contribute to the war effort by joining one of the female branches of the armed forces or participating in the labour force
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Prime Minister Curtin suffered from ill health from the strains of office. He suffered a major heart attack in November 1944. Facing the newly formed
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My fellow Australians. It is my melancholy duty to inform you, officially, that, in consequence of the persistence by Germany in her
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was formed on 27 July 1942 under the jurisdiction of the Director General of Manpower to combat rising labour shortages in the
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in June effectively defeated the Japanese navy and the Japanese army launched a land assault on Port Moresby from the north.
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as leader of the Country Party on 13 September 1939, allowing the conservative parties to re-form a Coalition by March 1940.
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Concerned to maintain British commitment to the defence of Australia, Prime Minister Curtin announced in November 1943 that
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standing alone against Germany. Menzies called for an ‘all in’ war effort and, with the support of Curtin, amended the
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Spizzica, Mia. "On the Wrong Side of the Law (War): Italian Civilian Internment in Australia during World War Two."
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was the magazine of the Australian Army Education Service in the Second World War", with a circulation of 185,000
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The Strength of a Nation. Six years of Australians fighting for the nation and defending the homeland during WWII
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When the Americans came to town : Enlarged revised edition, with new information and many more photographs
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to extend federal government power over employment, monopolies, Aboriginal people, health and railway gauges.
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In January 1941, Menzies flew to Britain to discuss the weakness of Singapore's defences and sat with
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Davis, Joan. "'Women's Work' and the Women's Services in the Second World War as Presented in Salt,"
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After Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, Australian trade unions supported the war.
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The recruitment of a volunteer military force for service at home and abroad was announced, the
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as leader of the Labor Party both pledged support to the declaration, and Parliament passed the
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Curtin went on to lead federal Labor to its greatest win with two thirds of seats in the
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broadcasting to the nation the news of the outbreak of war, 1939. (See quote to right).
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In an effort to isolate Australia, the Japanese planned a seaborne invasion of
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was formed in August 1941 as a non-medical support service for the military.
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General Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences, Heinemann, London, 1967. Page 258.
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National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism.
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has declared war upon her, and that, as a result, Australia is also at war.
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and Derby, Drysdale, Katherine, Mossman, Onslow, and Port Patterson once.
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Although most Australian civilians lived far from the front line, the
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Military history of the British Commonwealth in the Second World War
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serving as acting prime minister, it was Chifley who announced the
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War on the homefront: state intervention in Queensland 1938–1948
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1942 Australian propaganda poster. Australia feared invasion by
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City Hall filled for Soviet Aid meeting, Brisbane, October 1941
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Naval recruits march along Melbourne Street in Brisbane, 1941
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victory and led to permanent changes to Australian society.
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upon their arrival due to their having arrived with German
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for the first time on 26 April 1939 following the death of
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greatly expanded its powers in order to better direct the
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led by Menzies. On 3 September 1939, Australia entered
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(1958). 2204:Butlin, S.J. (1955). 1578:Martin, A.W. (2000). 1251: 605: 573:1943 federal election 502:and Governor-General 485: 473: 420: 419: 397:attacked Pearl Harbor 376: 364: 348: 289: 273:1940 federal election 214: 203: 182:National Security Act 173:National Security Act 158: 101: 100: 60: 21: 5566:Surrender of Germany 5044:Battle of West Hubei 5001:Guadalcanal campaign 4971:Battle of Stalingrad 4897:Battle of Madagascar 3671:Albania protectorate 3458:(formerly Swaziland) 3167:Wehrmacht war crimes 2983:Expulsion of Germans 2767:Art and World War II 2665:British contribution 2614:Governments in exile 2366:9#11 (2012): 121–34. 2246:(192) v 18#1 pp 64+ 2235:Darian-Smith, Kate. 2181:1#2 (1977): 107–118. 893:25 pounder field gun 613:passing through the 567:and over 58% of the 514:, in the Australian 463:in a daring raid on 461:accommodation vessel 429:battle for Australia 92:Coalition government 79:. He led a minority 5656:Potsdam Declaration 5545:Italy (Spring 1945) 5308:Liberation of Paris 4765:Siege of Sevastopol 3783:(until August 1944) 3686:Wang Jingwei regime 3508:from September 1943 3468:from September 1944 3406:from September 1944 3266:Romanian war crimes 3257:Persecution of Jews 3243:Croatian war crimes 3213:Japanese war crimes 3027:Occupation of Japan 2976:First Indochina War 2688:Military production 2600:Declarations of war 1706:on 4 September 2017 1685:F.K. Crowley, ed., 1672:F.K. Crowley, ed., 1663:Long (1961). p. 39. 1645:on 13 November 2013 1141:Machine-gun carrier 948:Bofors 40 mm AA gun 673:Military production 615:anti-submarine boom 569:two-party preferred 554:amphibious assaults 550:New Guinea campaign 546:Battle of Buna-Gona 518:. In May 1942, the 369:, 19 February 1942. 335:minority government 300:British War Cabinet 242:were classified as 37:During the war the 5751:1940s in Australia 5649:Surrender of Japan 5482:Battle of Iwo Jima 5331:Belgrade offensive 4744:Siege of Leningrad 4628:Battle of Shanggao 4557:British Somaliland 4522:Dunkirk evacuation 4473:Norwegian campaign 4411:Invasion of Poland 4238:Japanese prisoners 3206:Italian war crimes 3137:British war crimes 3052:Soviet occupations 2836:South-West Pacific 2723:Allied cooperation 2681:Military equipment 1888:on 17 January 2012 1262: 623: 508: 480: 449:Franklin Roosevelt 406:and battlecruiser 389: 371: 359: 292: 217: 209: 161: 105:invasion of Poland 66: 53:Menzies Government 24: 5723: 5722: 5681: 5680: 5524:Battle of Okinawa 5423:Burma (1944–1945) 5257:Mariana and Palau 5037:Tunisian campaign 4862:Fall of Singapore 4786:Fall of Hong Kong 4529:Battle of Britain 4382:Operation Himmler 4291: 4290: 3955:Dutch East Indies 3598:Southern Rhodesia 3350: 3349: 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Index


Allied
Government of Australia
war effort
Pacific War

Robert Menzies
Robert Menzies
Prime Minister of Australia
Joseph Lyons
United Australia Party
government
Earle Page
Coalition government
World War II
invasion of Poland
Great Britain
Earle Page
John Curtin
National Security Act 1939
RG Casey
World War I
Billy Hughes
Archie Cameron
Second Australian Imperial Force

Low Countries
British Empire
BHP
enemy aliens

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