From her first week at the University of Queensland’s St Lucia campus, Anne Richards knew she was in the right place., her memoir about growing up during the student radical movement of the ’60s and ’70s.
“It’s been four weeks now,” Gutteridge says, glancing at the encampment behind us. Students are pottering between rows of tents, shaking out mattresses, chatting and laughing. Her activism this year has carried on that tradition. Last week, she helped organise UQ’s second student general meeting since the ’70s.
One passage describes the “fiery young radical” Brian Laver jumping on a table outside the student refectory in 1966 blasting out political tirades “against US imperialism, the Vietnam War, conscription and civil rights in Queensland”. “It wasn’t just the music,” he says. There were shows for prisoners, Indigenous people and the queer and gay community.
The Vietnam War was over, and Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s 19-year reign over Queensland came to an end in 1987 – the same year the Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption began. Aboriginal rights and recognition was improving, though far from resolved. “Basically, we see the camp as a tactic, and we don’t think it’s a useful tactic going into the holidays,” she says.
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