The Conscription Conflict and the Great War

Robin Archer is Director of the postgraduate program in Political Sociology at the London School of Economics and Emeritus Fellow in Politics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of Economic Democracy (Oxford, 1995) and Why Is There No Labor Party in the United States? (Princeton, 2008). Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia (Cambridge, 1999), Freud in the Antipodes (UNSW, 2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (Cambridge, 2010). Murray Goot is Professor of Politics at Macquarie University and a former President of the Australasian Political Studies Association. He is the author of Australian Opinion Polls (Hale and Iremonger, 1993), Divided Nation? (co-authored with Tim Rowse, Melbourne, 2007), and numerous scholarly articles on elections, referendums and public opinion. Sean Scalmer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of Dissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia (UNSW, 2002) and Gandhi in the West: The Mahatma and the Rise of Radical Protest (Cambridge, 2011).