YEAR 10 : WORLD WAR II IN AUSTRALIA: Introduction

On 3 September 1939, Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies announced that Australia was at war with Germany.

Fellow Australians, it is my melancholy duty to inform you officially, that in consequence of a persistence by Germany in her invasion of Poland, Great Britain has declared war upon her and that, as a result, Australia is also at war. No harder task can fall to the lot of a democratic leader than to make such an announcement.

[From speech made by Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, 3 September 1939: Screensound Australia, National Screen and Sound Collection, Screensound Title No: 387919]

https://anzacportal.dva.gov.au/history/conflicts/australia-and-second-world-war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q78COTwT7nE&list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9&index=39&t=0s