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00:00Jack? Jack, wake up.
00:05The Japs are in. They've attacked Malaya, the Philippines and the Yanks naval base at Pearl Harbour.
00:11And God knows where else.
00:20Oh, well, it's come.
00:25Thank you, Don.
00:31A DOI listening post then heard the faint message,
00:35in addition to Pearl Harbour, Singapore is being bombed.
00:39That was at 0420 hours.
00:41You're absolutely certain there was no prior declaration of war?
00:44None whatsoever.
00:47They're mad. Humiliating a nation as powerful as America with such an insult.
00:53And the King.
01:01Ready, Jack?
01:05I reckon I would be.
01:08Right, yeah?
01:11Ladies and gentlemen, the Prime Minister.
01:16Men and women of Australia,
01:20we are at war with Japan.
01:24History in the making.
01:26First time we've ever declared war off our own back.
01:29And struck like an assassin in the night.
01:33We did not want war.
01:36The Australian Government has repeatedly made it clear
01:40that if war came, it would be of Japan's making.
01:44A war we have striven sincerely and strenuously to avoid.
01:51Japan made war.
01:53We anticipate their next moves will be attacks on the outlying island bases
01:57with attempts to occupy Rabaul, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
02:02And raids on, or attempts to occupy, Darwin.
02:06With subsequent naval and air attacks on vital areas of the Australian mainland,
02:11here and here.
02:14If Japan gets her brutal way,
02:18if Japan gets her brutal way,
02:21this is our darkest hour.
02:26Let that be fully realised.