This film from c1916 features various wartime fundraising and recruitment activities.

It was shot from outside the General Post Office in Martin Place, Sydney, after rain.

This Cinesound newsreel clip shows a bed-pushing marathon and fundraising event.

This newsreel item from 1941 shows a canoe derby on Throsby Creek, Newcastle. It was of a fund-raising event to aid the purchase of a Spitfire aircraft during the Second World War.

Australians responded to the declaration of war in August 1914 with enthusiasm.