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WW1 Conscription Crisis in the mining towns of Yorke Peninsula
Date/Time: Thursday, 28 May 2015, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Napier 102, Napier Building, North Terrace Campus
Cost: Free Event
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The conscription crisis in Australia in 1916-17 emphasized existing divisions in Australian society and created new ones, and was especially catastrophic for the Labor Party which was split over the issue. Although the conscription debate was nation-wide, it exhibited strong regional dimensions, influenced by economic, political, religious, ethnic, class and other variables.
This talk alights on the crisis as it was manifested in the copper-mining towns of northern Yorke Peninsula in South Australia, and examines in particular the increasingly fraught relationship between Methodism and the Labor Party locally.
From being a region noted for its community solidarity and developed sense of Cornish ethno-occupational and ethno-religious exclusivity, the Peninsula became a community divided against itself as the conscription crisis aggravated existing tensions and provoked new divisions.
Contact: Olivia Power, Email: olivia.power@adelaide.edu.au, Website: http://www.dunstan.org.au, Manager, Administration and Events, Don Dunstan Foundation, Business: 8313 3364
Ms Sharna Pearce, Email: sharna.pearce@adelaide.edu.au, Don Dunstan Foundation, Business: +61 8 8313 6246
