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What would happen if the PM enforces an automatic draft register in Australia towards all adult male citizens? (www.youtube.com)
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For perspective: America has what's known as the "Selective Service System" where it's compulsory for every male citizen to register within a month of their 18th birthday for potential conscription. Now, Trump is considering on making the process automatic by December.

In their case, the current system works under mandatory registration which isn't automated. Not only does it apply to citizens, but also residents, aslyum seekers and immigrants. Now, imagine the same thing happening in Australia, would it be supported or opposed?

Like this: the Australian government in Canberra refers from the database on where every Australian male possesses state photo ID, driver's license or passport (all states and territories) by putting their name onto a draft lottery (the registration process for conscription has been automated).

It would mean, in some time: you can be called up by the ADF saying you have to serve when the circumstances deem it necessary (and failing to comply results in imprisonment) and they are not excluding male Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders from the draft (making it mandatory to serve).

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago

You ask this like we don't know the answer. We had the draft in living memory.

We need a proclamation of a call to war before parliament 90 days before it can be activated. The government needs parliamentary approval from both houses. All Australian residents 18-60 can be called up (not only men in the 21st century) but the government can call up a subset of this cohort ('only men', 'only women with red hair', 'only residents of Bankstown' or whatever 'class' they wish).

Then everyone loses their shit, we storm our politicians and threaten them with being the first to war or something if they even think of voting this in. It would be so wildly unpopular and I can't see any government passing it.

It's not something the PM or Governor General can unilaterally do. Hooray for checks on politicians in Australia.