Ahead of their Time – the French Economic Mission to Australia 1918

Author: JACQUELINE DWYER
The French Australian Review No 59 (Australian Summer 2015 (Special World War I Issue)): 30-54
https://doi.org/10.62586/XFAA6871

This article undertakes a more detailed description and analysis of the Mission than has been done to date, in order to cast light on French-Australian relations of the time. The author has drawn on a number of sources: the Mission’s official report for the general public, The Economic Relations between France and Australia; an article by Robert Aldrich ‘La Mission Française en Australie de 1918’, which was based on the diplomatic archives of the Quai d’Orsay; and the Rapport Thomsen.

Keywords: French Economic Mission to Australia, General Pau, trade, wool, Labour Mission