Conscription Dividing Australia WW1

After the three years of bloody conflict the ready supply of troops to the Front was drying up. Australia was faced with a problem: how to maintain the numbers necessary to support Britain in the war. Volunteers became scarce. Australia had to decide whether people should be forced to fight. And so the Conscription Debate began. Conscription is defined as compulsory enrolment, especially for the armed forces. The process was quite simple, resembling that of a lottery. A birth date was chosen and men of a certain age, with that birth date were conscripted.
There were many arguments both for and against this motion and much debate on the issue. It was believed widely that conscription was a successful way of approaching the lack of troops to ally Britain in the Gallipoli campaign. The basis of this argument was that conscripting men to the armed force would theoretically contribute to a quicker peace among nations and a glorious victory. Some supposed that the British Empire wo...