http://m.theaustralian.com.au/nation...9278333ae6e3e0
On the evening of July 31, Australian prime minister, Joseph Cook told an audience at Victoria’s Horsham Town Hall that “when the Empire is at war, so is Australia at war”
Opposition leader, Andrew Fisher speaking at a separate event in Colac on the same evening, used a more memorable turn of phrase:
“But should the worst happen after everything has been done that honour will permit, Australians will stand beside our own, to help and defend her, to our last man and our last shilling.”