The arguments for and against, Recruitment and conscription, Australia and World War I, History, NSW Introduction The Australian Prime Minister William Hughes' call for conscription was a consequence of heavy Australian casualties being experienced on the Western Front in World War I and a decline in volunteers to enlist to fight at home.
TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER COMMUNITIES Gracelyn Smallwood, MSc, Colin White, BA (Hons) "We took the children from their mothers."1 With these words, Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating, while launching the Year of Indigenous Peoples at Redfern Park in Sydney in December 1992, officially acknowledged that in the process of colonization, white Australia had denied generations of Aboriginal children their most precious and fundamental right-that of a mother's love and family's care.
The Office of the Status of Women was upgraded to a Division and returned to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The National Wage Case was held. The Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (ACAC) acknowledged women's work was undervalued and underpaid but said the economy could not afford to pay commensurate wages.
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