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The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

The Dictionary of Sydney was archived in 2021.

Australian Freedom League

Political organisation

Political organisation opposed to conscription and active in attempting to repeal the compulsory clauses of the Defence Act. By 1914 it had a membership of 55,000.

Milestone
Formed
1912
Position
Committee member
Grant, Donald McLennan (Don)
1912
Type
Political organisation

World War I and the Peace Society in Sydney

CC BY-SA 2.0
by
Catie Gilchrist
,
2014

The many wartime tensions between members of the New South Wales Peace Society was, in microcosm, one small example of the way in which the World War I split and deeply divided Sydney. Between 1914 and 1918, political, pacifist and patriotic tensions between the Society's members fractured this once united group.

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