Mel Gibson admits Braveheart inaccuracies!

[Galician]

True that Australia was involved in Viet Nam, but no where near the degree as the U.S., where the draft was presumed to mean being shipped there...and very often was. I'm not even sure if they had a draft in effect there.

I realized that Mel was still a bit young at the time of the move, that's why I said it was the family that moved. It was, however, indicative to me of a mindset in which he was very likely to have been raised.

P.S. Wiki quotes a newspaper article which has the senior Gibson specifically saying that the move was partly prompted by the parents' belief that Mel would not be drafted in Australia.