Read the Defining Moment in Australian history: 1913 The newly created Royal Australian Navy’s ‘fleet unit’ sails into Sydney Harbour. Use that information to complete the activities below.

1. Drag and drop the correct information into the spaces in the paragraph below.

2. Look at the cover of the pamphlet below, published on the occasion of the fleet’s arrival.

What symbols in it show a sense of Australian nationalism?

3. Australia agreed to put its fleet under British Admiralty control in time of war. How did this agreement lessen Australia’s independence?

4. What does this event help you understand about why Australia might have gone to war in 1914?

5. Why was this Defining Moment so significant in Australian history?

6. If you were advising the National Museum of Australia on an object that it could display to commemorate this event, what would you suggest? (You can see what objects they actually have using the National Museum of Australia collections search)