Helping draft resisters
Who you hear in this episode, in order:
Sue McCulloch (b. 1949) *
Tony Dalton (b. 1948) *
Caroline Hogg (b. 1942) *
Frances Newell (b. 1948) *
Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo (b. 1943) *
Tony Dalton (b. 1948) *
Anne Sgro (b. 1943) *
Caroline Hogg (b. 1942) *
Lyn Hovey (b. 1950) *
Ceci Cairns (b. 1944) *
Frances Newell (b. 1948) *
Jean McLean (b. 1934)
Image c/ Ken Mansell ephemera collection. This booklet, designed to assist men who wanted to refuse participation in National Service, was published in 1971.
The wig worn by Frances Newell as part of her disguise when visiting husband Michael Hamel-Green, while he was avoiding arrest for being a draft resister.
Photographer: Hannah Perkins
Museums Victoria
https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/249333.
Accessed 27 July 2023.
Bibliography
Primary sources
Talbot, Jennifer (secretary). Letter about Conscientious Objectors (non-Pacifist), appeared in several student newspapers, including:
RMIT’s Catalyst (20 March 1968);
La Trobe University’s Rabelais (1 April 1968);
Melbourne University’s Farrago (19 June 1970).
University of Melbourne Archives. Margaret Frazer. University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library Special Collections: 1993.0158.
“Further information about non-registration,” Box 1.
Secondary sources
Oliver, Bobbie. Hell No! We Won’t Go! Melbourne: Interventions, 2022.
Oliver, Bobbie. “The Peacemaker’s Role in the Anti-Vietnam War movement.” Fighting Against War. Ed. Phillip Deery and Julie Kimber. Melbourne: Leftbank Press, 2016.
Scates, Bob. Draftmen Go Free: a history of the anti-conscription movement in Australia. Melbourne: Bob Scates, 1988.
Witham, Rennis. “The Safe House Project: An Oral History.” Victorian Labor History Foundation, on Victorian Labor Party website. Last accessed 24 July 2023.
Bob Muntz, Michael Hamel-Green, Tony Dalton.