University of Melbourne students
(and a brief mention of RMIT and Swinburne Technical College)
Who you hear in this episode, in order:
Sue McCulloch (b. 1949) *
Frances Newell (b. 1948) *
Diana Crunden (b. 1948) *
Erika Feller (b. 1949) *
Elisabeth Jackson (b. 1950) *
Frances Newell (b. 1948) *
Sue McCulloch (b. 1949) *
Erika Feller (b. 1949) *
Diana Crunden (b. 1948)
Image from Museums Victoria: https://collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/items/268768.
Accessed 27 July 2023.
Some students at the University of Melbourne were involved with “Students for a Democratic Society.”
Possibly the weirdest story I’ve come across in all my research.
I don’t know whether any women were involved in it, and I don’t even know if it’s real or a wind-up.
In 1966, the October 21st edition of Farrago (the Melbourne University student paper) featured a headline screaming “LBJ Assassination: Student Attempt exposed”. That’s bizarre enough, but the really weird thing is the claim that the assassination was going to happen by way of an “intense radio-thorium source” that would apparently deliver “a fatal dose … to anyone in a slowly-moving vehicle near the centre of the road.” It was apparently all uncovered because of a road fatality.
Bibliography
Primary sources
Catalyst (RMIT student paper):
No author, “Commonwealth Building’s Sit-in,” 1 May 1968, p2.
No author, “Moratorium,” 20 April 1970, p6.
Scrag (Swinburne student paper):
Margaret Haste, “Turning a blind eye” letter, 7 May 1970, p4.
No author, 11 March 1971, pp5-6.
Farrago (University of Melbourne student paper):
No author. “Conscription Referendum.” 22 April 1966.
No author. “SRC Acts of Vietnam Poll Results.” 23 Sept 1966.
No author. “500 Protest on Conscripts.” 7 October 1966.
Garrie Hutchinson. “The Continuing Story of Civil Disobedience.” 3 May 1968.
No author. “Awaiting this Call.” 14 March 1969.
Nine signatories. Letter to the editor about by-law 418. 14 March 1969.
Helen Clark. “NLF Policy.” 9 May 1969.
Erika Feller. “Feller at the demo.” 11 July 1969.
“Draft signatories.” 6 October 1969.
Several authors. Vox populi. 24 April 1970.
No author. “City Anti-Draft Demonstration.” 17 July 1970.
Frances Newell. “Australian Anti-War Students in Saigon.” 17 July 1970.
No photographer listed. Images, “Vietnam Moratorium.” 25 September 1970.
No author. “Police Vandalism Raid.” 30 September 1971.
University of Melbourne Archives. Records of the Melbourne University War Resisters International. University of Melbourne, Baillieu Library Special Collections: 1974.0004.