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Australia's War, 1939-45

Australia's War, 1939-45

edited byJoanBeaumont

First published 1996 by Allen & Unwin
Reprinted 1996, 1999, 2000 by

Published 2020 by Routledge
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Copyright Collection Joan Beaumont, 1996
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National Library of Australia
Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Australia's war, 1939-1945.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
ISBN 1 86448 039 4.
1. World War, 1939-1945Australia. 2. World War,
1939-1945Political aspectsAustralia. 3. World War,
1939-1945Social aspectsAustralia. 4. World War,
1939-1945Economic aspectsAustralia. I. Beaumont, Joan.
940.5394

Set in 10/11pt Times by DOCUPRO, Sydney

ISBN-13: 9781864480399 (pbk)

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This book arose out of our experience of teaching the history of Australia during the Second World War at Deakin University. This revealed the need for a study in one volume of the various aspects of Australia's involvement in that conflicta study of where Australians fought and why; the impact of the war on domestic politics, society, and economy; the representation of the war in literature; and the changes wrought in Australia's place in and attitudes towards the world.

A number or people at Deakin contributed to the development or this book: especially, Frances Baensch, Ian Fox, Paul Schmidt, Doug Scobie and Penny Williams. Colleagues throughout Australia and overseas read drafts and offered encouragement and advice: Carl Bridge, Robin Gerster, Jeffrey Grey, Ross McMullin, Stuart Macintyre, A. W. Martin, Kay Saunders, Andrea Shimmen and Garry Woodard. Finally, we owe thanks to our families, particularly Diana, Caroline and Julia Beaumont who sometimes thought this book would take longer than the war.

• AAM Australian Archives (Melbourne)
• ABDA American, British, Dutch, Australian Command
• AIF Australian Imperial Force
• AFM Australia First Movement
• AGPS Australian Government Printing Service
• ALP Australian Labor Party
• ANU Australian National University
• ANZAC Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
• ARP Air Raid Precautions
• AWAS Australian Women's Army Service
• AWLA Australian Women's Land Army
• AWL Australian War Memorial
• AWSC Australian Women's Services Corps
• BHP Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd
• CAEP Council of Action for Equal Pay
• CMF Citizen Military Forces
• CPA Communist Party of Australia
• DAFP Documents on Australian Foreign Policy
• EATS Empire Air Training Scheme
• GDP Gross Domestic Product
• NHMRC National Health and Medical Research Council
• POW prisoner of war
• RAAF Royal Australian Air Force
• RAF Royal Air Force
• RAN Royal Australian Navy
• RSL Returned Services' League
• SWPA South-West Pacific Area
• UAP United Australia Party
• WEB Women's Employment Board
• WAAF Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force
• WOI Department of War Organisation of Industry
• WRANS Women's Royal Australian Navy Service
• YMCA Young Women's Christian Association

Joan Beaumont is a Reader in History in the School of Australian and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, Deakin University. She is editor of Australia's War, 1914-18 (Allen & Unwin, 1995), and author of Gull Force: Survival and Leadership in Captivity, 1941-45 (Allen & Unwin, 1988, 1990), as well as articles on various aspects of the British and Australian experience of the Second World War and the treatment of prisoners of war.

Kate Darian-Smith is a Lecturer at the Department of History and the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. She was previously Deputy Director of the Menzies Australian Studies Centre, University of London. Her publications include On the Homefront: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945 (Oxford University Press, 1990) and, as coeditor with Paula Hamilton, Memory and History in Twentieth Century Australia (Oxford University Press, 1994)..

Marnie Haig-Muir is a Lecturer in Social and Economic History and Development Studies in the School of Australian and International Studies, Deakin University. Her publications include: 'The economy at war' in Joan Beaumont (ed.), Australia's War, 1914-18 (Allen & Unwin, 1995) and 'Economic History: A Client?' Working Papers in Economic History, no. 148, ANU, 1991.

Roy Hay is Senior Lecturer in Social and Economic History in the School of Australian and International Studies at Deakin University, He has written widely on the development of the social welfare state in Britain and Australia, and on sports history.

David Lee is a Research Officer in the Historical Documents Branch, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is author of Search for Security (Allen & Unwin, 1995) and articles on Australian politics and foreign policy.

David Lowe is Associate Lecturer in History in the School of Australian and International Studies, Deakin University. He has published articles on (and is writing a biography of) the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Percy Spender. He contributed the chapter on 'Australia in the World' to Joan Beaumont (ed.), Australia's War, 1914-18 (Allen & Unwin, 1995).

David Walker is Professor of Australian Studies and Director of the Centre for Australian Studies at Deakin University. He has written extensively on Australian social and cultural history. With Professor Peter Spearritt of Monash University, he devised the 'Out of Empire' television programs for Open Learning. He has edited the journal Australian Cultural History since 1989.

1939

23 August	Soviet-German (Nazi-Soviet) Non-Aggression Pact
1 September	Germans invade Poland
3 September	Britain declares war on Germany Australian Prime Minister, R. G. Menzies, broadcasts that Australia is at war
8 September	National Security Act passed Earl Page steps down as Country Party leader, replaced by Archie Cameron
15 September	Announcement of formation of Australian division for service at home or abroad. Militia called up
13 14 October	HMAS Hobart and five RAN destroyers leave Australia

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