... and the electric vacuum cleaner. Although these appliances were initially targeted at an upper class, they changed the life of the house working middle-class wife forever. The changes overtaking Australian lives saw the evolution of new technologies. New methods of transportation included the automobile, (mostly imported from Britain and America), the electrification of trains spread through Sydney and Melbourne, as ... February, and Bolsheviks overthrew both in October. A new wave of communists lead by Lenin spread throughout Russia, and soon influenced the rest of the world. The domin...

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... joining for various reasons. They however did encounter problems. Women were not included in the war effort immediately. At first the government was reluctant about allowing women into the military forces, and they were only allowed to work as nurses, drivers, signallers and motor mechanics ... . Then, in 1940 the Women's Australian National Service was established to co-coordinate the groups of women interested in participating in the war. Only in 1941 did the government allow women to partake in the armed forces, however only nurses were ... leaning new skills. There were many branche...

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... those that had been to war and returned in a state that they could not go out and get a job. As the Australian industry suffered greatly from a lack or workers the Australian government allowed women to enter the workforce in great numbers. Women in their hundreds and thousands took on work, some of this was ... traditionally men's jobs. This kept the Australian industries going. During World War II women made up to 40% of the working force ... in factories. By October in 1942 the were over half a million women working in Australian industries. Their working hours were long, and often t...

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... job and put in all their effort to succeed! Women in the forces, services and helping out! As the same as world war one, generally the government and military commanders didn't want women to be present in the battle zones of war. The only jobs they wanted the women to do at the ... changed not only in war related situations but the whole of society as well. Prejudice against having women in armed forces was overcome by the need of Australian involvement in war. Soon enough women were no longer treated as fragile. But still only the nurses served in the combat areas. Women were not allowe...

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... men to enlist. The people who were in favor for conscription were those such as conservative politicians, the Universal Service League, Protestant church leaders and businessmen. These people urged the Australian government to follow Britain in introducing conscription. They argued that "eligible men should not be allowed to avoid their duty while others who had volunteered were dying for them." Australia's Federal ... Labour government and the Labour party were traditionally against conscription. They argued "should there was conscription of working men when there was no conscription o...

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