The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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 in ant-conscription marches, sit-ins and occupations across the country. An act of resistance took place on 23 April 1969 when a draft resister, Louis Christofides sat on the railway line at Woollongong holding up a train that was about to take conscripts to Sydney. He was subsequently goaled. Christofides and his supporters were unusual examples of working-class protestors in a predominantly middle-class protest movement.
The Vietnam Moratorium Campaigns were a result of a conference held in Canberra in November 1969 to plan a series of protests based on the American Moratorium model. There were three Moratorium campai
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