It’s a policy that Peter Dutton would be strongly advised not to oppose. He’d probably be angry he hadn’t thought of it himself.
When the world gathers every four years for the festival of sport, I always encourage athletes to get out of the cloistered life within the Olympic Village and mingle with locals and tourists as a means of gaining insights as to how others live. Many have taken the opportunity to do this. It was on one such occasion last week that I found myself in a Parisian cafe with Lord Coe, Kieren Perkins, Kyle Chalmers, Emma McKeon and South Korea’s archery gold medallist Lim Sihyeon.
Lord Coe thought this a “magnificent idea”. He began texting newly minted British PM Keir Starmer, while indicating his enthusiasm for compulsory military service. Off the top of his head, Coe listed the countries he knew for a fact had such a scheme – Russia, Turkey, Israel, Iran and Norway. He seemed keen for the United Kingdom to join what he termed “the commonsense club” as a means of keeping “wastrels” with too much time on their hands off the streets.
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