POL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Jim Cavanagh, Jim Cairns, Gorton Government
30 Aug 2018
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What is radicalism: goes to the root" (cited in engler 2004, seeks a fundamental change in the pattern of social relationships" (love 1988, 151, fry (1983): radicals have confronted the powerful authorities of their day", making connections. 60"s: time of hope: bipartisan support, 1968 turning point: Whitlam years, were the time of critical change" (horne 1980, 7; emphasis added) One of the most turbulent periods in australian history" (langley 1992) Jim cairns: the war in vietnam seriously called in to question the whole of that society which was capable of waging it (hansard, 22 september 1977: 1529) Initially popular: vietnamese resistance, troop rebellions, protests. For the first time in 25 years, mounted troopers last night were ordered at full canter into violent crowds in front of the u. s. consulate-general . The horses charged into the crowd at least a dozen times to the aid of police fighting savagely with demonstrators close to the building (the age, 5 july 1968)
