HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden
Battle of Cocos HMAS Sydney and SMS Emden Emden on beach, Cocos Islands. NRS4481_ST13298_A HMS Sydney off Cocos Islands. Glass plate negative. NRS4481_ST13298_D When war broke out it was important for both Great Britain and Australia to keep the trade...Sydney in 1914
By 1914 the population of Australia had reached nearly five million people and there were 1.8 million people living in New South Wales. Of that 1.8 million, 40% lived in Sydney and the surrounding metropolitan suburbs, making Sydney Australia’s largest city.[1]
NSW prepares for war
The response of the people: When men and women throughout New South Wales woke up on 5 August 1914 they found that Australia was at war with Germany. The initial reaction to the outbreak of war was one of jubilation and fervent exuberance.
Daceyville – the Garden Suburb
By 1910, much of the housing available in inner Sydney was overcrowded, unsanitary and often expensive. When the first Labor government of New South Wales was elected in October 1910, John Rowland Dacey, the Colonial Secretary, pushed for the creation of garden suburbs with low cost housing for workers.
