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Oliver Sinclair

Oliver Sinclair

Oliver Sinclair is a lawyer and is studying a Masters of International Relations at the Australian National University.

The soldiers' vote: men of the 44th Battalion cast their ballots; conscription referendum, Belgium, December 8, 1917?

Why so many Diggers voted ‘no’ to conscription in WWI

Australians, including many thousands of Diggers fighting in Europe, voted against conscription during the Great War. It was a blow to then-prime minister Billy Hughes.

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