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Australian Vietnam veterans were honoured at a "Welcome Home" parade in Sydney on 3 October 1987, and it was then that a campaign for the construction of the Vietnam War Memorial began. [120] This memorial, known as the Vietnam Forces National Memorial , was established on Anzac Parade in Canberra , and was dedicated on 3 October 1992.
Conscription ended in December 1972, [6] and the remaining seven men in Australian prisons for refusing conscription were freed in mid-to-late December 1972. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] 63,735 national servicemen served in the Army, of whom 15,381 were deployed to Vietnam.
During the late 1960s, domestic opposition to the Vietnam War and conscription grew in Australia. In 1965, a group of concerned Australian women formed the anti-conscription organisation Save Our Sons, which was established in Sydney with other branches later formed in Wollongong, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Newcastle and Adelaide. The movement ...
Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young men in the United States and Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as part of the anti-war movement. The first draft-card burners were American men participating in the opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War.
Robert Martin (born 1949) is an Australian historian who resisted conscription for military service during the Vietnam War.. Martin refused to register for conscription, holding an objection to the Vietnam War in particular.
John Zarb was [ambiguous] an Australian conscientious objector to military service (conscription) during the Vietnam War.Objecting to the principle of forced drafting for military purposes under the National Service Act (1964), Zarb refused to nominate for conscription.
William "Bill" White was a Sydney school teacher during the Vietnam War. [1] In July 1966, White defied a notice to report for duty at an army induction centre. White was the first Australian to be a public conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Both this initial application for total exemption and subsequent appeals were rejected.
Conscription in Vietnam has existed since 1975 and requires male citizens between the ages of 18 and 25 (18 to 27 for those who attend colleges or universities) to perform compulsory military service. [1] Women are not required to perform military service, but they may voluntarily join the military. [disputed – discuss]