50 years on, the Vietnam moratorium campaigns remind us of a different kind of politics

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Protest at Parliament House in Canberra, May 8 1970. National Museum of Australia

Fifty years ago this month, hundreds of thousands of Australians assembled across the country to call for an end to the Vietnam War. The first of the moratorium campaigns, the demonstrations of May 8 1970 were the zenith of the anti-war movement in Australia that had...

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