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and teaehers. U Some of the remainder were labour acc.:Vi:scs. radicals. and members
of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). II The last group of those interned
was made up of mentally disturbed. eccentric and poor enemy aliens who had aroused
suspicion in their communities.
Durina: World War I. Australian citizens refused to work alonpide Germans
and wrote Iettm deDClUDCiDl their German-Australian neiJbboun. The public was
joined in this by !he press and authors of spy IIOYeIs who campaigned apinsr. enemy
aliens. There were anri-Gen:naD riots in Sydney and Melbourne a:f1ler the sinkinl of
the LMisiloJli4 in May 1915. Wich the turifx:: losses at Gallipo1i riots spread.
lhrouahout Australia. While the aovemment did not openly participate. they did little
to stop the anti-enemy alien hysteria. The Australian pwernment interned those
enemy aliens it deemed daft&erou$. surveilled some and fon:ed all otben 10 regislCr.
The govemmem: even called on its cititJens 10 help search for spies and saboceun and
10 tum them inIo the Stale." Enemy aliens were defmed as any Australian-bom
citizens whose fadIer or paDdfa!ber bad been a subject ofa country dw Austtalia
was now at wu with. nis meant that all GermaIl cilizenl. all nannlized Australian-
IJNacler, "Victims of the Home Front.· 211.
IINacler, "Victims of the Home Front." 212. The Ameran government
irx:ocTec:l!y viewed the IWW as an auxiliary of the German espiona&e system.
I'Fisc:her, Gertwd. "Fiahrina: the War at Home: the Campaian apjnst Enemy
Aliens in Ausnlia durin&: the First World War," in PuikoI Pamyi. Miltoritie1 in
Wartinw, 268-270.
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