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Women’s Movements
Timeline : the women’s Movement
Women’s Liberation Movement (Australia)
Vietnam War
Conscription, moratoriums and Opposition - Vietnam War - public dissent
Thousands in moratorium campaign to oppose the Vietnam War
Indigenous Rights (Australia)
The Struggle for Land Rights - History
Nuclear Disarmament
Greenpeace - Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Greenpeace - End the Nuclear Age
Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior - In 1985 New Zealand was basking in its position as leader of the anti-nuclear movement. As a country it had clearly punched above its weight. Then, just before midnight on the evening of 10 July, two explosions ripped through the hull of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior, which was moored at Marsden Wharf in Auckland.
Nuclear Testing in the Pacific - New Zealand was involved in ongoing protest over French nuclear testing from the mid-1960s, when France began testing nuclear weapons in French Polynesia. Mururoa (or Moruroa) Atoll became the focal point for both the tests and opposition to them. Greenpeace vessels sailed into the test site in 1972, and the following year the New Zealand and Australian governments took France to the International Court of Justice in an attempt to ban the tests. France ignored the court’s ruling that they cease testing.
International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Environment
Australian Conservation Foundation
The Sydney Push - There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Members held strong views on social issues but were anti-activist. Many were involved in creative endeavours as writers, filmmakers, actors, artists, designers and musicians but dismissed cultural elitism.
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