Onthe Bach I hate to differ from your post regarding National Service, it commenced in 1951 and went through until 1972, you are probably confused with the Vietnam saga when the lottery system came in for National Service instead of all 18 year olds being conscripted, I was conscripted to three months training in 1954 and a 2 year stint in the CMF for a fortnight each year, the Cold War was on with Russia and Korea was unstable so Menzies decided to conscript 18 year olds to learn how to kill people in war. Politicians love the war machine, they should participate
This is a correction only and not to do with the subject matter.