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This is the slightly abridged text of a talk given at a public forum in Sydney on June 6. The author, JOHN PERCY, is national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party.] The campaign against the Vietnam War here developed in similar ways to the movement in the US.

This is the slightly abridged text of a talk given at a public forum in Sydney on June 6. The author, JOHN PERCY, is national secretary of the Democratic Socialist Party.] The campaign against the Vietnam War here developed in similar ways to the movement in the US.

Conscription, compulsory military service for young men, has been a contentious issue throughout Australia's history. The Defence Act 1903 was one of the first pieces of legislation passed by the new Commonwealth government, and it gave the government the power to conscript for the purposes of home defence.

A short histroy on Compulsory Military Training

Protecting and promoting civil liberties and human rights in Australia. Non-government organisation in special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC.

EXTRAORDINARY though it seems, it was not until 1967 that Australian Aborigines were recognised as citizens of their own country. Before that they were classified as native wildlife, along with kangaroos and koalas. This weekend Aborigines are converging on Canberra, the national capital, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a referendum that led to the constitution being amended.

The Office of the Status of Women was upgraded to a Division and returned to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The National Wage Case was held. The Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission (ACAC) acknowledged women's work was undervalued and underpaid but said the economy could not afford to pay commensurate wages.

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