REMINDER: This thread is about conscription, not child-minding and discipline for kids whose parents haven't raised them properly.

ttbn,
I'm not in favour of conscription but if people don't get their act together soon it may be the only way forward. If they can force us to keep supporting them then we can demand that they had better pull their weight to a reasonable extent.
Man to man or woman to woman or XYZ to XYZ, everyone will need to be able to at least put up a fight once hostile forces head this way. The new invaders will most definitely not have the welfare system that the British invaders eventually established.
Those enemies who are already here face no opposition & they more than likely count on the apathy of the average Australian on display thus far to continue.

Come to think of it. If Australia faces an invasion, where would those who don't want to defend this Nation go to claim refugee status ?

"If they can force us (us is supporting you) to keep supporting them then we can demand that they had better pull their weight" Absolutely Indy, and the sooner we get the old folk out of 'Gods Waiting Room' an into a SENIORS NATIONAL SERVICE for those of your ilk with their snout in the taxpayer funded trough all's the better! You'd be up for a little light duties working on the "Seniors Road Gang". How many of the 300,000 18 year old's in Australia do you propose to press ganged into your national service? According to you, all 300,000.

Paul1405,
No need to get so desperate trying to prove your silliness, you've convinced us long ago.

Indy,

You refuse to answer the simplest of questions about your 18 years old's doing National Service. You said it would be mandatory for ALL of that age, I point out the fact there are around 300,000 people at the moment aged 18 in Australia. I asked how with so many is national service possible, you clam up, you don't have an answer. During the Vietnam War conscription, the intake of males per ballot was about 7,000, 300,000 makes YOU look like the fool.

BTW, with the increased defence spending announced by the government, particularly for the Navy, the Navy will require 5,000 extra personal a number the Navy believes will be difficult to recruit.