Conscription

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WW1

Isabel Swann: the Women’s Peace Army & free speech

An ardent peace activist, an anti-conscription campaigner and defender of free speech

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WW1

The Wobblies

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), also known as the ‘Wobblies’, was a radical labour organisation founded in the United States in 1905

On This Day

Australians vote No to conscription in 1916

On 28 October 1916 Australians went to the polls to vote in a plebiscite on wartime conscription