Frank Hyett

Francis William "Frank" Hyett (9 February 1882 – 25 April 1919) was an Australian politician, trade unionist, first-class cricketer and anti-conscription activist.

[1][2] He was born near Ballarat, Victoria, the elder child and only son of William Hyett, a sawmill laborer from Tasmania, and his wife Annie.

Among the formative friendships he built at that time, the future Prime Minister John Curtin,[3] Frank Anstey and Tom Mann were the most prominent.

In February 1910, he took a role of a paid organizer at the Amalgamated Society of Railway Employees, and became its general secretary in July.

During the first World War, Hyett was a strong opponent to conscription, and from 1916 to 1918, the Victorian Railways Union's paper was one of the more visible platforms used by the anti-conscription movement.