Effects of the bombing on Australian home front
ChildrenEven school children helped build air raid shelters and collected materials such as pots, and pans, old newspapers, books and other materials that could’ve recycled for war effort. World War II was the toughest for children as they had to deal with fathers and brothers being sent away in a foreign country to fight a war that perhaps could kill them. This was a very sad time for children as they had to deal with pets being put down instead of seeing them die from starvation as an effect of war. Major public holidays such as Christmas was not advertised because of scarcity. At school time was given to current affairs to keep up with development in war zone
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PeopleAt home front, before the fall of Singapore and attack on Darwin, people believed that war was serious, however, they did nothing to protect themselves. After the attack, everyone started to take precautions and protect themselves by digging air-raid trenches and building shelters. People took sandbags and filled them to help brace buildings in an air attack, darkened houses, and dimmed lights at night or even brick up windows, and remove streets names and signs that may assist any enemy.
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ConscriptionAfter realising the importance of protecting Australia outside of Australian land, the Curtin government started to suggest conscription. However, it wasn’t easy to persuade the government to agree with this proposal. After a lot of debates and dicussions, the Curtin government finally introduced conscription to any area within the South West Pacific Zone (including New Guinea – now Indonesia) as the bill was passed on 3rd February 1943
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