Conscription in Australia
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Conscription in Australia was in place for most of the 20th century, with young men and boys subject to various forms of compulsory training and military service during major conflicts including World
Supporters of conscription campaigning at Mingenew, Western Australia in 1917
Industrial Workers of the World anti-conscription poster, 1916
Cartoons such as this one, by artist Norman Lindsay, were used both to recruit and to promote conscription.
1917 Handbill – The Blood Vote
Draft evasion in the Vietnam War was a common practice in the United States and Australia during the conflict. Significant draft avoidance was taking place even before the United States became heavily
Conscription in Australia
…and expanded the previous national service scheme and from 1966 Australian conscripts were controversially deployed in Vietnam. Following increasing draft evasion and general opposition to the Vietnam War, the national service scheme was abolished in 1972. In 1909, the Deakin government introduced an amendment…
Five young people sitting and talking intently, Mark Satin (left), director of the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme, counseling American draft evaders, 1967
Anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Sydney, 1965
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) was one of several countercultural figures to encourage draft evasion.
David Harris and "The Resistance" helped organize Stop the Draft Week in Oakland, California, October 1967.