1 Dollar - Elizabeth II 4th Portrait - War Declared

Issued as part of Australia's World War I centenary commemorative program, this dollar marks the centenary of Australia's entry into the war following Britain's declaration against Germany on 4 August 1914. Australia was automatically drawn into the conflict as a dominion, a constitutional reality that generated surprisingly little political opposition at the time — Prime Minister Joseph Cook's government had actually fallen just days earlier, and the incoming Labor leader Andrew Fisher famously pledged support "to our last man and our last shilling" during the election campaign itself.