Am sorry Crackcup [typo when addressing your name].

I'd be interested to understand the nature of this evidence.
Pericles,
you've answered your own question unless of course you're still very young. Look around & observe the utter uselessness of so many who, instead of helping to build this nation are inexcusable parasites simply due to the lack of discipline & responsibility that those of us who pay for our oxygen, are getting tired of supporting.
Can I ask you a question in return ? What do you see wrong with a young person having to put in some effort to go through life ? There're many young people who do that. My motto is help those who need help but don't do things for those who are too lazy.

Again Individual, I'm looking around but struggling to see very many of such people- as most people I can see tend to, funnily enough, get jobs or study eventually anyway; so for the vast majority (and I mean VAST) of Australians, national service is just a waste of time.

Hence Pericles' request for some evidence that the population in general needs NS, and what in NS is supposed to change them for the better.

In other words, NS seems little but a vague cure for a seemingly imagined social problem.

King Hazza,
All I can reply to your observations is that you are very,very fortunate indeed not to live in a part of this country where young people chose to be unemployable. To those who don't think people should not have to perform tasks they don't want to do I can only say go out & talk to those millions of workers who'd rather do something different. Choice of work is a priviledge that simply no society can afford for everyone.

To All:

I would like to add one very important stipulation to my enthustastic recommendation for the implemntation of National Service!

It must NOT be used simply to create a pool of "cannon fodder" for the bolstering of Australia`s involvement in "illegal actions" ie the invasion of Iraq.

The Government of the day and each successive Government must accept and guarantee that the young people trained via National Service will not be "wasted" on cavalier expeditions, in support of other nations vested interests, again, "Weapons of Mass Deception"

"Choice of work is a priviledge that simply no society can afford for everyone."
But it will be "everyone" being robbed of their choice just for the few too lazy to get of their bums.
You could have NS-for-the-dole; a more voluntary system that actually targets those who need it (again, the minority who needs it, as I'm sure any check of employment statistics would tell), instead of a blanket conscription, to (theoretically) instill a positive attitude?

Again, WHAT services are they performing?