The La Trobe Three
Barry York ‘La Trobe Students Freed’ – so ran the billboard of the Melbourne Herald newspaper fifty years ago in its late afternoon edition on 4 August 1972. That edition of
The Marxism and Strategic Concepts of the Communist Party of Australia 1963-1972
Ken Mansell’s honours thesis ‘The Marxism and Strategic Concepts of the Communist Party of Australia 1963-1972’ provides ‘a Marxist critique of Australian Communism’. As Ken’s noted in his abstract, the thesis
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‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1972
1972 January 2 – Anti-war activists in Melbourne meet at Shrine and proceed to U.S Consulate for rally against renewed U.S bombing of North Vietnam January 7 – Further demonstration
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1971
1971 January – Commonwealth police interrogate signatories to Christmas anti-conscription advertisement in The Australian January 9-10 – National Moratorium Coordinating Committee meets in Melbourne to plan February 17-21 National Anti-War
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1970
1970 January 8 – Plain clothes police pull guns and threaten to shoot Ted Poulton and Phillip Twomey near SDS headquarters in Carlton. The two are interrogated for seven hours
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1969
1969 January – Interstate conference in Melbourne sets up National Campaign Against Conscription (NCAC) January 3 – Twenty-year-old medical student Sean Foley begins serving 29-day sentence at Long Bay jail
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1968
1968 January – Vietnam Action Campaign (VAC) and Sydney University Labour Club establish Third World Bookshop and off-campus youth centre ‘Resistance’ at 35 Goulburn Street January 17 – Prime Minister
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1967
1967 January 4 – John Lindsay Anderson is first conscientious objector to apply for exemption solely on objection to the Vietnam war. His application fails January – Monash Labor Club
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1966
1966 January – Robert Menzies resigns as Australian Prime Minister – Harold Holt takes the reins January 20 – Francis James (editor of The Anglican) returns home to Sydney after
‘Taking to the Streets against the Vietnam War’: A Timeline History of Australian Protest 1962-1972 –– 1965
1965 January – U.S extends the war to Laos and blasts trails used by North Vietnamese to pass supplies and cadres to NLF January – ‘National Service’ registration period begins