... government and it operated until December 1972, when the newly elected Whitlam Labor Government suspended it. The scheme involved a ballot of birthdays for twenty-year-old men who had registered their names with the Department of Labour and National Service. A certain number of labelled marbles were drawn randomly by hand, one at a time while Australian families watched nervously on their television screens and listened ... news and photos of the conflict fuelling the growth of opposition to the war. The consequences of reporting the Vietnam War was that people could sit at home watchin...

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