Does Australia have mandatory military service?
No conscription
No conscription
Australia is one of 123 countries classified “No conscription” for military conscription — 64% of the 192 with data. (Also searched as the draft, national service.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Conscription
- Last checked
- 15 September 2026
- How it was classified
- Read directly from the source’s own table, without interpretation.
Nearby countries
- Timor-Leste
- Active conscription
- Papua New Guinea
- No conscription
- Solomon Islands
- No conscription
- Indonesia
- No conscription
- Palau
- No conscription
- Vanuatu
- No conscription
Other laws in Australia
- Death Penalty
- Fully abolished
- Gun Laws
- Restrictive
- School Corporal Punishment
- Varies by region
- Jury Trials
- Jury trials used
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