As in World War 1,

As in World War 1, the Commonwealth Government forced an extensive number of new controls over individuals' lives. They did this through the power of the National Security Act of 1939. This Act did two real things: it viably overrode the Constitution for the span of the war - giving the Commonwealth influence to make laws in territories where it didn't have that influence under the Constitution; and it adequately overrode the influence of parliament by giving the legislature influence to make regulations, that is, laws that obliged just the marks of a few priests and the Governor-General. 

The legislature utilized its powers to make an enormous number of laws and regulations influencing all parts of individuals' lives. Among these were: 

the diminishment of the Christmas - New Year occasion period to three days; 

the confinement of weekday brandishing occasions; 

power outages and brownouts in urban communities and seaside territories; 

sunlight sparing; 

expanded call-ups of the Militia; 

the issue of individual character cards; 

expanded selection of ladies into the assistant powers; 

regulations permitting strikers to be drafted into the Army or into the Army Labor Corps; 

the settling of overall revenues in industry; 

confinements on the expenses took into account building or redesigns; 

the setting of some ladies' pay rates at close male levels; 

internment of parts of the Australia First association; 

controls on the expense of dresses; 

the proportioning of apparel, footwear, tea, margarine and sugar; 

the banning of the Communist Party, and the Australia First Movement for restriction to the war; 

the structuring of a Women's Land Army; 

the pegging of costs; and 

the arraignment of around one thousand scrupulous objectors, and the detaining of some of them. 

Balance of Sacrifice 

The Australian individuals experienced six years of war with significant solidarity. Obviously there were numerous divisions and strains, however overwhelmingly the individuals appeared to be very united, especially in correlation to the World War 1 experience. 

Some piece of the clarification for this could be the truth of the risk to Australia for a great part of the war. Once the fake war period was over, the Germans were unmistakably ready to thrashing all of Europe, including Britain. British urban communities were enduring daily flying besieging, and the German submarines were capable seriously to confine gear and supplies arriving at Britain. At that point, with the section of Japan into the war in December 1941, the Australian terrain itself appeared powerless against an intrusion.