Quiet Protest during Australia's Vietnam War (Online)

Online lecture via Zoom

The Vietnam War saw the largest protests ever seen in Australia, peaking during the Moratoriums of 1970-1971 when hundreds of thousands marched in streets of cities and towns. The public memory of the conflict focuses on young people in the streets, blocking roads or occupying buildings and public squares in capital cities. But not all in society are young, or able-bodied, or capable of dedicating time to active protest. What about everyone else?

Join historian and 2023 State Library of New South Wales David Scott Mitchell Fellow Dr Effie Karageorgos as she uncovers the voices of quiet protesters during the war using images from the archive. This History Week lecture will show that although the public anti-Vietnam War protest movement was unprecedented, so was the ‘quieter’ movement.