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1914
July
30
Australia places its fleet on a war footing alongside the Royal Navy
On 30 July 1914 a British warning of possible war reached Melbourne. The Australian navy took up war stations and on 3 August was offered to the Admiralty.
1917
February
17
War government in Australia
On 17 February 1917 Billy Hughes announced a new government in which his former Labor comrades sat beside Liberals. The Nationalist Party was born.