Law in War

A nation often amends its laws during war, not least to regulate life at home. Yet few historians have considered the impact of the law on Australians during the First World War. In her new book, Law in War, author and academic Catherine Bond breathes life into the laws that were central to the way people were managed in Australia, 1914–18.  

Catherine Bond and the Library’s senior curator, Elise Edmonds, discuss how ordinary people were caught up in — and sometimes destroyed by — wartime laws created in the name of victory.