Add to ORKGThis chapter examines a different kind of sacrifice – that made by young men who went contrary to the tide of popular opinion to make a stand against conscription for military service, and in particular, conscription for active service overseas in the Vietnam War. Historians have often portrayed Australians as a nation eager to go to war, especially on behalf of ‘a powerful ally’ such as Britain or the United States of America – an assumption based on the thousands who willingly enlisted in both world wars, and the public scorn directed at those who stayed home. Despite this perception being challenged by Australia’s involvement in an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, conscientious objectors still suffered social stigma, loss of employ...
In democratic societies, governments often assume extraordinary powers during wartime, thus redefini...
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to ...
Martial activity in Australia before the Great War was not confined to the sporadic raising of exped...
Historians generally accept that Australia’s Vietnam War has been clouded in myth, whether those myt...
Many young Christian men faced a moral dilemma when selective military conscription was introduced i...
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscrip...
Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War drew on the selective conscription of additional manpower ...
This article examines men’s responses to the 1916 ‘Call to Arms’ appeal, in which ...
Debate about conscription in Australia is usually concerned with morality and equity and has become ...
In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-...
The Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia (ESHRAA) emerged in 1966, supporting conscient...
Discusses conscientious objection as a weapon of protest. Relationship between citizens and the stat...
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to ...
This thesis examines the evolution of the memory of Australia's Vietnam War. It argues that the curr...
In Australia during the Vietnam War, the charge was frequently made that domestic opposition to the ...
In democratic societies, governments often assume extraordinary powers during wartime, thus redefini...
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to ...
Martial activity in Australia before the Great War was not confined to the sporadic raising of exped...
Historians generally accept that Australia’s Vietnam War has been clouded in myth, whether those myt...
Many young Christian men faced a moral dilemma when selective military conscription was introduced i...
While the Great War raged, Australians were twice asked to vote on the question of military conscrip...
Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War drew on the selective conscription of additional manpower ...
This article examines men’s responses to the 1916 ‘Call to Arms’ appeal, in which ...
Debate about conscription in Australia is usually concerned with morality and equity and has become ...
In late 1945, Australia eagerly put up its hand to join the American-led military occupation of war-...
The Ex-Services Human Rights Association of Australia (ESHRAA) emerged in 1966, supporting conscient...
Discusses conscientious objection as a weapon of protest. Relationship between citizens and the stat...
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to ...
This thesis examines the evolution of the memory of Australia's Vietnam War. It argues that the curr...
In Australia during the Vietnam War, the charge was frequently made that domestic opposition to the ...
In democratic societies, governments often assume extraordinary powers during wartime, thus redefini...
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to ...
Martial activity in Australia before the Great War was not confined to the sporadic raising of exped...