December 20 1917. A date that John Hewson, Jeff Kennett and other Australian conservatives seem to have forgotten as they declare a new class war on workers, women, the poor and dispossessed This was the date when Australians across the country decisively rejected the idea of sending conscripts to die on the killing fields of the First World War. The jingoistic Prime Minister, Billy M. Hughes, recognizing that he did not have the parliamentary support…
