Conscription
Conscription was the most divisive issue in Australian society during world war 1. ... Conscription is the forced enrolment recruitment of men and women into the armed forces. ... Billy Hughes wanted to force men into fighting in the war, but the issue of conscription wasn’t a simple one and many people opposed, and this divided the country. There were many people for conscription and many people against conscription, Billy Hughes would’ve needed to change the constitution in order to bring in conscription, but because conscription was already in the constitution it wasn’t necessary. Although conscription was in the constitution it only meant that people could be forced to enlist to fight in Australia only, but Hughes wanted to make it overseas as well.