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What do we want! : the story of protest in Australia / Clive Hamilton ; foreword by Germaine Greer.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: [Canberra] : National Library of Australia Publishing, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: ix, 209 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text, still image
  • cartographic image
  • cartographic image
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780642278913 (paperback)
  • 0642278911
Other title:
  • Story of protest in Australia
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.484 23
Contents:
End the war -- Women's emancipation -- Gay liberation -- Indigenous rights -- Justice for all -- Save the environment.
Summary: In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women’s liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental movement, and examines how these movements have confronted the ugliness in Australian society and caused epoch defining shifts in social attitudes. He describes protests with scores of thousands marching or sitting down in the streets of capital cities; colourful camps of a handful of protesters in Australia’s forests, singing at bulldozers and blocking paths; acts of bravery by individuals using technology to disrupt stock markets or coming out on television; as well as vigils, leafleting, street theatre, occupations and myriad other creative forms of protest. Hamilton shows that progress occurs because a few individuals begin to demand change.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 303.484 HAM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 68341

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-195) and index.

End the war -- Women's emancipation -- Gay liberation -- Indigenous rights -- Justice for all -- Save the environment.

In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern Australia. He includes dedicated chapters on the peace movement, women’s liberation, Indigenous rights, gay rights and the environmental movement, and examines how these movements have confronted the ugliness in Australian society and caused epoch defining shifts in social attitudes. He describes protests with scores of thousands marching or sitting down in the streets of capital cities; colourful camps of a handful of protesters in Australia’s forests, singing at bulldozers and blocking paths; acts of bravery by individuals using technology to disrupt stock markets or coming out on television; as well as vigils, leafleting, street theatre, occupations and myriad other creative forms of protest. Hamilton shows that progress occurs because a few individuals begin to demand change.

© National Library of Australia 2016

Text © Clive Hamilton

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