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Fair points, but as I stated, the issue isn't even about conscription, it's so much bigger than that. It's about committing men and blood globally and regionally in support of alliance, rather than uniquely Australian, goals. This pattern has repeated itself time and again. It'll happen with China and the USA if they ever go to war, just you wait.It was a minority, mostly British born old campaigners, and they consistently lost support because of it. Those few that wated it ripped the Labor party apart because of it.
Its one thing that they went to war to support an ally - as soon as they began to understand what the war involved they resisted conscription and once they saw what a farce it was the ALP began to oppose recruitment and began supporting the strikers and other anti war measures. Australia had a volunteer army. We chose to go there and fight initially and when we saw what a joke it was we began to turn against the war. The Labor Party reflected this and the other campaigners did what the ruling class always does - work on ways to kill the poor.
True - I've known plenty of vets from Vietnam onwards and this is still the case.
You could put a lot of Australia's historical problems with alcohol and violence (public and domestic) down to PTSD from ww1 and subsequent wars imo.
The footage of the way that shell shock victims were treated still haunts me.