Conscription, also known as national service, is a system of enrolment where it is compulsory for men and women to join the armed forces. ... In November 1964, the National Service scheme was introduced by Robert Menzies and his government and it operated until December 1972, when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government suspended it. 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. A certain number of labelled marbles were drawn randomly by hand, one at a time while Australian families watche...

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With Australia allied to America, it began sending in conscripts (young men forced to join the armed services) and thousands of troops to Saigon to assist the U.S.A. ... It was on the 27th of December 1972, the newly elected Labor government in Australia stopped all Australian involvement in the war. ...

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