Australia

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.

What would happen if the PM enforces an automatic draft register in Australia towards all adult male citizens?

We'd tell him to get fucked, mate. And just for emphasis, we'd add, "Yeah, nah" before it.

Realistically, it would doom any political party that introduced it to the political wilderness, particularly nowadays.

'For King and Country' doesn't wash anymore, so very few people here would approve our sons and daughters being sent off as cannon fodder for Charlie.

Nor does running to defend our 'greatest ally', given how Trump has been jamming his dick in our ears, demanding we like it, and getting shitty at us when he finds out we don't.

I can't think of a war we've been involved in since WWII where we rushed off to help GB or the US to counter an invasion force, to defend our shores (or those of our allies). Since then, the reasons have been dubious - even outright fraudulent - like 'they have weapons of mass destruction!'

Previous generations have experienced things they don't want their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren to experience. Us common folk now also have more access to footage of what happens in wars. And access to information showing how poorly treated veterans of war are treated by western governments when (if) they return.

So ... yeah, nah.

As a middle aged mother. I would rather I go to war than my child. I would also rather go to prison than to war in the middle east.

I have some colleagues from Singapore, and from what I've heard, they have to do something similar there.

The weird thing to me in the US is that they're making the enrollment for Selective Service automatic, but they can't make enrollment for voting automatic. 🤔

This would only fly if there was an active war in Australia or maybe NZ ?

Useful summary of the last time we had conscription and the opposition movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Australia#Vietnam_War

No

Considering we haven't used conscription for over 50 years, and each time after WW2 it's been highly controversial, and that Australia has no active war.. I think this begs the question why the fuck would a politician do that, except to commit political suicide?

Last time I looked the laws (long time now, but I think I'd have heard) from the Vietman war haven't been repealed, so lottery by birthdate of male citizens again?