The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Text poster advertising a public protest at Sydney Town Hall and a poster parade in Martin Place, Sydney, against the gaoling of John Zarb. On 14 October 1969, John Francis Zarb, a 21 year old postal worker and part-time student, was the first man to be found guilty of having failed to comply with his call up notice and was sent to a civilian goal for non-compliance with the National Service Act. When Zarb had applied to be registered as a conscientious objector, the magistrate said that Zarb had established that he had sincere and conscientious objections to service in Vietnam, but the Act did not recognise objections to a particular war. As a conscientious objector, he was sentenced to two years jail in October 1968, but served only 10 months and seven days in Pentridge Prison , Melbourne. He was released in August 1969 on grounds of the distress his imprisonment caused his family. His release on compassionate grounds followed months of sustained protest by many sectors of the community who viewed Zarb as a martyr to the anti-war cause.
A mistakenly drawn peace symbol overprinted with text. On 14 October 1969, John Francis Zarb, a 21 year old postal worker and part-time student, was the first man to be found guilty of having failed t
The silhouette of a man in goal holding the bars of his cell. The accompanying text advertises a demonstration march leaving the University of Melbourne in protest at the goaling of Geoff Mullen for r
Text poster advertising a protest and concert outside Long Bay Goal in support of Louis Christofides who had refused to register for National Service. In Sydney in April 1969, 302 people were arrested
Jeremy Gilling was from a well-to-do Castlecrag family and his mother Bridget Gilling was politically active around women's issues and subsequently a member of Save Our Sons and prominent in the anti-
This poster relates to one of the smaller, side protests relating to the Vietnam Moratorium movement. The Vietnam Moratorium campaigns were a result of a conference held in Canberra in November 196
Bill White b. 1945 was a second year out teacher when he was confronted by conscription and knew there was no way he could go. In 1965, he registered as a conscientious objector citing opposition to