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Conscription - criticism, 1950-present

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Application Forms

  • Commonwealth of Australia, National Service Act 1951-1964 - Registration Form, December 1964. Image PDF Details

Books

  • Levien, Harold, Vietnam: Myth and Reality, Harold Levien, Sydney, 1967. images PDF Details
  • Walker, Bertha, How to Defeat Concription: A Story of the 1916 and 1917 Campaigns in Victoria, Anti-Conscription Jubilee Committee, Melbourne, 1968. Image PDF Details

Conference Proceedings

  • Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Executive Meeting Minutes April 27, 1970, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, April 1970. images PDF Details

Fliers

  • Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act, Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act, June 25, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Melbourne, 1966. Image PDF Details
  • July 4 Independence Day Rally, Melbourne, 1967. images PDF Details
  • The Defence Force Protection Act (Commonwealth of Australia, 1967) and Documents Relating to Resistance to the Act, 1967. Image PDF Details
  • Organizations to contact concerning anti-war activity, information, or advice, Melbourne, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • We appeal for conscience on conscription – Release John Zarb, Melbourne, November 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Day of Conscience on Conscription for Vietnam War, Monday, November 25, 1968, Victorian Branch of the Metal Trades Federation, Melbourne, November 1968. Image PDF Details
  • 1968 membership card of the Monash Anti-conscription Society, Monash Anti-conscription Society, Melbourne, 1968. images PDF Details
  • World Protest: Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee Bulletin, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, October 1968. image PDF Details
  • Conscription - Advice and Discussion, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, circa 1969. images PDF Details

Journals

  • Inscape, vol. 1, no. 1, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, November/December 1968. images PDF Details

Letters

  • Letter from Sandra Zurbo of Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, March 1970. Image PDF Details

Newsletters

  • YCAC Newsletter, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Melbourne. Image PDF Details
  • Vietnam Action Committee, Vietnam Action Committee, Sydney, December 1966. Image PDF Details
  • D.R.M. News: Newsletter of the Draft Resistance Movement, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, February 1968. Image PDF Details
  • ‘Denis O’Donnell conscientious objector now in military prison’., Melbourne University Labor Club, Melbourne, April 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Draft Resistance Movement Newsletter, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, October 21, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Viet Protest News, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, December 1968. images PDF Details
  • National Mobilisation: Mass Non-violent Sit-in at the Prime Minister’s Lodge, Canberra ACT, Draft Resistance Movement, May 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Statement on July 4, 1968 demonstration by Harry Van Moorst, Vice-President of Melbourne University Pacifist Society, Melbourne University Pacifist Society, Melbourne, July 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Viet Protest News, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, December 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Viet Protest New, Vietnam Co-ordinating Committee, Melbourne, May 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Do you approve this?, Sydney, April 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Resist, vol. 2, Draft Resistance Movement, Melbourne, August 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Oppression in Society - Freedom Day: July 4, Association for International Co-operation and Disarmament (AICD), Sydney, June 1970. Image PDF Details
  • CICD Newsletter, Congress for International Co-opreation and Disarmament, Melbourne, April 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Vietnam Moratorum Campaign, n.d.. Image PDF Details

Newspaper Articles

  • 'We Oppose Overseas Conscription', The Australian, Youth Campaign Against Conscription Committee (YCAC), Sydney, 1965. Image PDF Details

Pamphlets

  • They want to conscript out youth of die for them!, Brisbane, 12 May 1950. Image PDF Details
  • Why Register for National Service?/The Right to Dissent, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Sydney, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Moratorium Campaign: Wreck the Draft, Vietnam Moratorium Campaign, Melbourne, July 1970. Image PDF Details
  • Facts about military conscription, Federal Pacifist Council of Australia, Brisbane, n.d.. Image PDF Details
  • Mr Menzies' Most Famous Speech, J.B. Henderson, Brisbane, n.d.. Image PDF Details
  • Holloway, E. J., The Australian Victory over Conscription in 1916-1917, Anti-Conscription Jubilee Committee, Melbourne, 1966. Image PDF Details

Petitions

  • Two Years Gaol: The Price of Conscience, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Melbourne, October 1968. Image PDF Details

Policy Statements

  • Peace Pledge Union, Statement of Principles - Peace Pledge Union. Image PDF Details

Posters

  • Fuck the Draft, 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Don’t be a machine - Refuse to Register, 1969. Image PDF Details
  • End Vietnam War: Get the boys home now! Support Moratorium May 8-9-10, Amalgamated Engineering Union, Melbourne, April 1970. Image PDF Details

Statements

  • Time to Rethink on Vietnam, Communist Party of Australia, Melbourne, February 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Public Statement by Karl Armstrong, November 1969. Image PDF Details
  • Notes on John Francis Zarb: Prepared by Gordon Bryant, Federal member for Wills, November 1, 1968. Image PDF Details
  • Some Results and Tasks of the Vietnam Moratorium, 1970. images PDF Details