If it comes I will end up living in China...without even moving to mainland China. If its a big war like this and national conscription comes....can only imagine how the centerlink crowds and the ''professional protesters for human rights'' will be fighting against large, professional, well-trained Chinese army.
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The Vietnam conscripts could refuse to go to Vietnam as Vietnam were not attacking Australia, this loophole could be due to Archbishop Mannix (was it?) before my time. But they were under great pressure to sign to go Vietnam.
https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/a-dive...daniel-mannix/
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Zionism is racism as defined by the UN, Israel by every dirty means available steals land and water, kill Palestinian freedom fighters and civilians, and operates an apartheid system to drive more Palestinians off their land
Hardly.
However there were numerous grounds for exemption or deferment during the Vietnam ballot
https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/encyclopedia/viet_app
I don't believe that the Taliban were ever planning to invade Australia, so I wouldn't be prepared to fight against them. But I would definitely have enlisted to fight against Hitler. Although, with a PhD in physics, I suspect that I would have made a more significant contribution by staying in Australia.
A Chinese invasion of Australia would be extremely difficult. But any war would almost certainly have escalated to World War III long before a Chinese invasion. I think Desmond was referring to something like this.
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I doubt I'd even do it against an enemy who was invading the country I lived in, unless the risk was very low. Of course, it depends on circumstances - if the risk of dying by not fighting is greater then I'd certainly fight, and also under some other such circumstances (eg a small risk of being killed is better than a certainty of being captured, tortured and imprisoned.)
Pacifism doesn't work very well in self-defence cases in my view. Whether one wants to kill to avoid being killed is a personal decision; it is not morally wrong to kill an aggressor in self-defence or to save lives.
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The Japanese advance was first stopped by Australian conscripts in New Guinea
Quotes attributed to Rommel:but I doubt Germans even knew Australia was fighting against them.
If I had to take hell, I would use the Australians to take it and the New Zealanders to hold it.
Said about the Australians and New Zealanders after facing an Australian-New Zealand infantry division in North Africa
If I'd had one division of Australians, I would have taken the canal in a week. If I'd had three, I'd have taken the world.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Erwin_Rommel
Rommel’s comments on Australian soldiers [1941-1942]
Australia's pivotal role in the 'end of the beginning' remains underrated at home
Australia was then part of the British Empire, which depended on its imperial troops for survival.And was it a good idea for Australia to participate in WW2?
Struth, what a board full of no hopers. My relos here during the War but who were born overseas all served in the "home defense" with military training defending the Brisbane Line if necessary along the border towns in SW Qld. One uncle a businessman for years afterwards gave returned soldiers free clothing and fags.
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