Conscription, also known as national service, is a system of enrolment where it is compulsory for men and women to join the armed forces. ... The scheme involved a ballot of birthdays for twenty-year-old men who had registered their names with the Department of Labour and National Service. ... "By 1969 anti-war protests were gathering momentum in Australia and opposition to conscription mounted as more people came to believe the war could not be won....

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Little Saigon is: an ethnic enclave [that] not only brought new possibilities for imagining community, but it also resurrected the old capital in a new physical space, complete with cultural institutions to foster this imagined community (Nguyen 199). ... To the Vietnamese, Little Saigon expresses a distinctive and indispensable Vietnamese character, Tran- a 65-year-old Vietnamese woman says, "I don't come to buy things, I come to see people, strangers mostly, who come...to do ordinary, everyday things, but in an environment where, because of the familiarity of faces and language, w...

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The people of the counterculture were young college age men and women. ... Some of the largest and most well known communes are Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, Greenwich Village in New York City, and Old Town in Chicago. ... This movement was "part rock concert and literary event, part protest and mass consciousness-raising," and was described as "a 'Gathering of the Tribes' meant to unite and incite the different wings of the counterculture movement".4 This event specially concentrated on the ideals of the counterculture and even the youth movement such as pers...

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