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Dedication: This book is dedicated, on one level, to my beloved family.
But it is also dedicated, on another level, to those in the Australian Government who are responsible for building a society in which the culminating event of this story could well be not only possible, but inevitable. It is dedicated to these 'guardians of democracy' in the hope that they might heed its warning, and so reorientate their thinking as to recognize that a democratic Government dignifies its people rather than degrading and suppressing them.
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Author's note: 'When stories and characters of fiction become animated within a framework of history, past or present, the author must, if conscientious,devote himself to a most comprehensive programme of research....In this vital work, my good fortune has been such that I have reason to be extremely grateful to many people, whose names I should like to mention here, although obviously I cannot do so. Suffice it to say that 'inside' information has been most cooperatively given to me upon subjects ranging from drug-addiction to ASIO, and from police structures and 'policies' to the organizing of student demonstrations. To those who have helped me so generously in these particular fields, my sincere thanks.'
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'All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance' : The Vietnam War Protest Movement in Australian Women’s Fictions by Janine Burke, Patricia Cornelius, Nuri Maas, and Wendy Scarfe
2011
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— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 2 no. 1 2011; (p. 123-141) 'Nearly fifty years ago, the Australian government sent thirty military advisers to South Vietnam, thereby initiating a commitment to a war which was to last for over a decade. Altogether, nearly 47,000 Australians, including 17,500 national servicemen served in Vietnam; 500 died and 2500 were wounded. Almost as disturbing as the results of the battlefield were the shockwaves that reverberated throughout Australian society, for the war years turned out to be one of the most turbulent periods in the nation’s history. The events of these tumultuous years are examined in five little-known Australian women’s fictions—Nuri Maas’s 1971 As Much a Right to Live, Janine Burke’s 1984 Speaking, Wendy Scarfe’s 1984 Neither Here Nor There and her 1988 Laura, My Alter Ego: A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Conscience, and Patricia Cornelius’s 2002 My Sister Jill. Together these texts chronicle the politicization of Australian youth, recount the kinds of overt challenges to the traditional standards of masculinity which had prevailed in Australian society since its inception, and document the emergence of the secondwave feminist movement.' Source: Donna Coates.
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'All We Are Saying Is Give Peace a Chance' : The Vietnam War Protest Movement in Australian Women’s Fictions by Janine Burke, Patricia Cornelius, Nuri Maas, and Wendy Scarfe
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the European Association for Studies on Australia , vol. 2 no. 1 2011; (p. 123-141) 'Nearly fifty years ago, the Australian government sent thirty military advisers to South Vietnam, thereby initiating a commitment to a war which was to last for over a decade. Altogether, nearly 47,000 Australians, including 17,500 national servicemen served in Vietnam; 500 died and 2500 were wounded. Almost as disturbing as the results of the battlefield were the shockwaves that reverberated throughout Australian society, for the war years turned out to be one of the most turbulent periods in the nation’s history. The events of these tumultuous years are examined in five little-known Australian women’s fictions—Nuri Maas’s 1971 As Much a Right to Live, Janine Burke’s 1984 Speaking, Wendy Scarfe’s 1984 Neither Here Nor There and her 1988 Laura, My Alter Ego: A Novel of Love, Loyalty and Conscience, and Patricia Cornelius’s 2002 My Sister Jill. Together these texts chronicle the politicization of Australian youth, recount the kinds of overt challenges to the traditional standards of masculinity which had prevailed in Australian society since its inception, and document the emergence of the secondwave feminist movement.' Source: Donna Coates.
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cVietnam,cSoutheast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s
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