Word: kokoda
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...have enough young people to sustain an all-volunteer military. Conscription "is not a question of if," he says, "it's a question of when." He's found scant agreement among defense experts and none among politicians. But, says Ross Babbage, head of the defense think tank the Kokoda Foundation, "a problem is coming, and we can't afford to neglect...
...Conscription has never been a popular idea in Australia, and the next generation is unlikely to embrace it. "I don't think we need it," would-be reservist Wang says. "I wouldn't support it." Nor does the Kokoda Foundation's Babbage. But one way or another, he says, more Australians will have to do their bit for defense. At present just 26 in 10,000 serve, fewer than in many European countries. "The whole country benefits from national security, and in a crisis the whole country would need to contribute to it. We do that through taxes...