- Title
- Ballarat’s Crusading Evening Echo: Fighting Militarism in World War 1
- Creator
- Beggs-Sunter, Anne
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/158848
- Identifier
- vital:11872
- Identifier
- ISBN:978-0-9803883-2-9
- Abstract
- The Evening Echo commenced publication in Ballarat in 1895, becoming the organ of the Ballarat branch of the Australian Workers Union in 1910. In the early twentieth century it had the largest circulation of any newspaper outside Melbourne, with future Prime Minister James Scullin editing the newspaper between 1913 and 1922. During World War I, the paper under the socialist Scullin took a forceful anti-imperialist view, particularly when it came to the two conscription campaigns, when it was the strongest voice against conscription in Victoria. This chapter will examine the role of the newspaper, its editorial stance, reaction to it both locally and in Melbourne, where its twice daily editions were widely read. Its influence in representing labour causes in a strongly conservative media environment will be assessed.
- Publisher
- Leftbank Press
- Relation
- Fighting against war: Peace activism in the twentieth century Chapter 6 p. 104-120
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Pacifism; Peace movements
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