Brisbane Military

      Despite a widespread climate of support for Britain , WWI saw Queensland 
	  vote in an anti-conscription Labor government. Labor continued in 
	  government until 1957, during which time a series of social and industrial 
	  reforms were introduced.  These included workers' compensation and 
	  compulsory voting.

      During World War II, many British, American and Australian troops were 
	  based in Brisbane, and for some time the city was the headquarters for 
	  General Douglas MacArthur. This was also the time of the infamous Brisbane 
	  Line - a defence strategy whereby facilities south of this line drawn on 
	  the map north of the city were to be defended and everything to the north 
	  was to be abandoned.

      As the Americans fought against Japan throughout the Pacific there were a 
	  number of locations in the state that were transformed into military camps, 
	  with thousands of US troops garrisoned in the Brisbane area. One of the 
	  fundamental outcomes of this war was the realisation how vulnerable we are 
	  to invasion, and consequently resulted in Australia shifting its allegiance 
	  from the UK to the USA.