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 | OPPOSITION TO THE VIETNAM WAR IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, 1965-73 MALCOLM SAUNDERS The announcement in April 1965 that Australia would send a battalion of combat troops to assist the United States in South Vietnam elicited protests in South Australia as it did in other states} Over the next few week[...]Adelaide, the United Trades and Labor Council of South Australia another at Trades Hall, and the South Australian Committee for International Cooperatio[...]long time remained very weak. During this period South Australia did not experience the development in the eastern[...]nucleus of a peace movement did not then exist in South Australia. The SACICD, a sister group of the much larger As[...]f Vietnam was the occasion for the revival of the South Australian branch of the Women’s International[...]demonstration against the war and conscription in South Australia/1 A Conscientious Objectors’ Advisory Committee[...]r at this time. No such group was established in South Australia until the beginning of 1966. Formed by fou[...] |
| [...]worked with other groups in the peace movement in South Australia — principally SACICD, WILPF, and SOS — in a c[...]ounterparts in other states the peace movement in South AustraliaSouth Australia than in NSW, Victoria, and Queensland. Its activi[...]e of Representatives and only three of the eleven South Australian seats.7 The Australian peace movement[...]s public visibility was very low. The movement in South Australia fared no differently. In June 1967 CVP secretary,[...]s supporters. Precisely the opposite occurred in South Australia. Several years were to elapse before South Australia experienced a similar rift. Apart from the Communist Party of Australia no group had yet developed a radical criti[...] |
| [...]the movement in Adelaide and the likelihood that Australia would be involved in Vietnam for several years, l[...]ation of a group which could embrace all those in South Australia opposed to the war.” In July 1967 50 prominent[...]t enduring of all groups in the peace movement in Australia formed specifically to oppose the war in Vietnam[...]te and successful pressure group of its type that South Australia has ever seen. The CPV was unique in othe[...] |
| [...]out 55 per cent of Australians and 62 per cent of South Australians then supported the withdrawal[...] |
| [...]the election of Labor candidates in five marginal South Australian seats — Adelaide, Grey, Hawker, King[...]o Labor across the nation was 7.2 per cent but in South Australia it was 11.7 per cent — greater than that in any[...]e marginal seats and thus eight of the now twelve South Australian seats in the lower house. Many in the[...]al secretary of the Liberal and Country League in South Australia who later commented that an important factor cont[...]but the CPV thought the party’s performance in South Australia had shown the Campaign to be the most effective g[...]f not only the CPV but also the peace movement in Australia. In November 1969 the Australian peace movement u[...]groups in Adelaide, established the VMC group in South Australia. Thereafter the CPV was a dead letter; the VMC do[...]ted a shift to the left for the peace movement in South Australia. It was not that the aims of the VMC were[...] |
| [...]stified. In most respects the first moratorium in South Australia differed little from that in any other state. Loc[...]ceful anti-Vietnam war demonstration ever held in South Australia. This was not particularly distinctive. On 8 or 9[...]emonstration in its history. But two features set South Australia apart. One was that many radicals in the movement[...]which most clearly distinguished the movement in South Australia from its eastern counterparts. Here the ALP, now[...]mittee it seemed at first as if the Labor left in South Australia would be in complete control of the second campai[...]tical of its association with the VMC but only in South Australia did the party publicly dissociate itself f[...] |
| [...]st violent and dramatic day the peace movement in Australia had ever experienced. There were scenes of violen[...]heir plans at the eleventh hour. What happened in South Australia, then, was part of a national pattern. But, unlik[...]and the moratorium had produced a controversy in South Australia unequalled in any other state. But the clashes h[...]and determined the form the anti-war movement in South Australia was to take over the next two and a half years. South Australia now experienced a cleavage in the peace movement[...]s, Trotskyists, members of the Communist Party of Australia, and unattached revolutionaries. Most of those wh[...]t and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam as integral parts of its aims.”[...] |
| [...]tes — such as Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia — VMC groups continued to enjoy good relations with the ALP. In South Australia alone the ALP saw the VMC as a political outcast[...]be continued by the exercise of repression within Australia. He went on to say that ‘the Police Force is t[...]and, of course, the capitalist press, the VMC in South Australia was very much an isolated body. The activities o[...]he VMC, in conjunction with VMC groups throughout Australia, held a third moratorium campaign in South Australia. Both of its main marches, one on 30 April[...] |
| [...]on, and Sir Mark Oliphant, soon to be governor of South Australia. The newspapers, which had condemned the VMC’s[...]adicals were greater and more publicly visible in South Australia than in any other state. The federal government'[...]ng of the end of the anti-Vietnam war movement in Australia. Public interest in Vietnam rapidly waned; suppor[...]strations against the US throughout the world. In South Australia the public was again presented with a contrast, t[...]Clearly, then, the anti-Vietnam war movement in South Australia cannot be viewed simply as part of a much wider w[...]he 1966 federal elections simply did not occur in South Australia. The movement here was too small, the radicals to[...]nd when a split did take place in the movement in South Australia three years later its effects were far- reaching.[...]aced with a unique situation — the existence in South Australia of a Labor government sympathetic to the b[...] |
| [...]rast that Lynn Arnold could write in 1973 that ‘South Australia for no apparent reason highlighted the arguments[...]Austra1ia]’.3“ But moderates and radicals in South Australia cannot simply be linked to counterparts in other[...]m, so cautious in method. So, too, was the VMC in South Australia. VMC groups elsewhere were wary of so strong an e[...]ialism and supporting the revolutionary forces in South Vietnam and were aghast at the South Australian group’s hostility to the Labor Party[...]ionary could cooperate in other states but not in South Australia. Perhaps the root cause of the way in which the movement in South Australia developed has already been mentioned, that is, th[...]t time. What is perhaps most remarkable about the South Australian experience is that the movement was fo[...]d admiration of longstanding activists throughout Australia. Footnotes 1. This article is largely ba[...] |
| [...]Activities of the Vietnam Moratorium Campaign in South Australia (Adelaide, 1970), pp. 17-18. . For a more thorough treatment of the second Vietnam moratorium campaign in South Australia see N. Blewett, ‘The ALP and the Morator[...] |
| [...]Killed by Fascists in the Internment Camp 14A in South Australia in November 1942, Fantin, the anarchist and anti-[...]d is, viewed as a martyr by the political left in Australia, both within and outside the Italian community. A[...]-Fascist struggle within the Italian community in Australia. His story helps to communicate to future[...] |
| [...]rved in the Italian army.5 In 1924 he migrated to Australia, arriving on 27 December“ on the ship Re D’It[...]broad, De Cicco, to each secretary of a Fascio in Australia on 4 January 1939: The Minister for Forei[...] |
| [...]ng on suspect members of the Italian community in Australia. Files were kept on fifty anti-Fascists in Adelaide alone, that is ten per cent of the Italian community in South Australia. 10 Fantin was an early victim of consular spying[...]Vito of Leguzzano on 18th May. I896, emigrated to Australia in March, I922. Right up to the outbreak of Comm[...]tin, their normal policy towards anti-Fascists in Australia; they denounced him as a subversive, a com[...] |
| [...]finitely opposed to Democracy. Fantin has been in Australia since 1924 but has not at any time made applicati[...]Cairns and Sergeant Walsh of the Edmonton police. Maps of the war zone and letters were seized to[...] |
| [...]thorne to the Loveday Internment Camp in Barmera, South Australia. Loveday 14A The Loveday Internment Group of camps, situated at Barmera in the South Australian Riverland, was first establishe[...] |
| [...]Fascist, saying that he had been well treated in Australia, that he liked the Australian people and that Australia was a good country. The Fascist responded by thre[...]i intervened and defended the man who had praised Australia. A number of Fascists called him a low dog[...] |
| [...]of Fascist intemees arrived from camps in Western Australia. They were welcomed by the Fascist contingent wit[...]contingent of internees who arrived from Western Australia at the beginning of November 1942. The day[...] |
| [...]ed by German and Italian anti-fascist aliens in a South Australian Internment Camp. In addition t[...] |
| [...]cy. K.H. Kirkman, Deputy Director of Security in South Australia and also Master of the Supreme Court, wrot[...] |
| [...]o Bishop Burgmann, John Curtin, Prime Minister of Australia, wrote on 24 February 1943: ‘Although segregati[...]h had an immediate effect on internment policy in Australia, particularly where it touched the lives o[...] |
| [...]of much of a generation, not only in Italy but in Australia too. It was a dominant ideology with poten[...] |
| [...]ind Barbed Wire: Wartime Experiences in Italy and Australia, University of Adelaide, 7 August 1988, Sponsored[...]ianfranco Cresciani, Anti-Fascism and Italians in Australia 1922-1945 (Canberra, 1980). 5. National Security[...]2, 21218, I bid. 27. 12.1". Dean, Internmerzt in South Australia: History of Loveday I940-I946 (Adelaide, 1[...] |
| [...]scist. I would not be prepared to do any work for Australia. It would be against my principles to work for Australia particularly while the war is in progress. I beli[...]yal to Germany and Japan. If the Japanese came to Australia I would help them. It would be my duty as an Ital[...]m: Q30084. A.A.: A.P. 80/1. P2565. Fantin File, South Australian Police, Criminal Office Reports[...] |
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| Opposition to the Vietnam War in South Australia, 1965-1973 | |
| Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 10, 1982. | |
| <p>Article from the Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia, no. 10, 1982, by Michael Saunders, in which the author writes on the peace movement in South Australia during the period 1965-1973.</p> | |
| Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Protest movements -- South Australia | |
| Peace movements -- South Australia -- History | |
| South Australians at war | |
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Saunders, Malcolm, 1949-, Opposition to the Vietnam War in South Australia, 1965-1973. State Library of South Australia, accessed 18/03/2026, https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/4044