Conscription in Australia, also known as National Service following the Second World War, has a controversial history which dates back to the implementation...

I. Mandatory conscription for males aged 12 to 26 had been implemented in 1911. The use of conscripted troops to fight outside Australia was contentious...

Western Australia was by far the most pro-conscription polity, with 69.7% of voters voting "Yes". South Australia was the most anti-conscription state,...

reinforcing the Australian Imperial Force oversea? The 1917 plebiscite was held a year after the highly contentious 1916 conscription plebiscite. The...

Conscription is the state-mandated enrollment of people in a national service, mainly a military service. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues...

Conscription in Russia (Russian: всеобщая воинская обязанность, romanized: vseobshchaya voinskaya obyazannost, translated as "universal military obligation"...

traveling abroad. In April 2024, President Zelensky signed new conscription laws, passed by the national legislature, that lowered the conscription age by two...

However, conscription into a full-time military service had only been instituted twice by the government of Canada, during both world wars. Conscription into...

Conscription in North Korea occurs despite ambiguity concerning its legal status. Men are universally conscripted while women undergo selective conscription...

formed by Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes in 1916, following the 1916 Labor split on the issue of World War I conscription in Australia. Hughes had...