Shortly before the historic re-election of Daniel Andrews’ Victorian Labor government for a third term, an overseas centenary anniversary passed with little local comment.

At the mid-November 1922 British general election, although victory went to the Conservatives, for the first time Labour surpassed the divided Liberal Party, reducing the latter to third-party status. The Tories dominated British politics for the next four decades, yet this realignment led to Labour becoming their main electoral rival.