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[[Image:Work fight or perish (RC02370).jpg|thumb|An Australian Government leaflet bearing the likeness and signature of Prime Minister [[John Curtin]], telling Australians that they must make sacrifices for the war effort.]]
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==After the war==
[[Image:HMAS Shropshire (123797).jpg|thumb|[[HMAS Shropshire|HMAS ''Shropshire'']] arriving in Sydney in November 1945 carrying long serving Australian soldiers]]

World War II cost thousands of Australian lives and consumed a large portion of national income. During the war
 II, 27,073 members of the Australian military were killed or died of wounds or died while prisoners of war. Of these, 9,572 were killed in the war against Germany and Italy and 17,501 in the war against Japan. Nearly half of Australia's deaths in the Pacific were prisoners of the Japanese.<ref>Long (1973). Page 474.</ref> In financial terms, total Australian war expenditure was [[Australian pound|£]]2,949,380,000. At its peak in 1942-43 war expenditure accounted for 40.1 percent of national in(contracted; show full)
* {{cite web |url=http://www.ww2australia.gov.au/index.html |title=Australia's War 1939—1945 |accessdate= |author= |date= |work= |publisher=[[Department of Veterans' Affairs (Australia)|Department of Veterans' Affairs]] }}


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