Oral histories on the topic 'vietnam protests'
Fred Johnson worked on the Parliament House construction site in the mid-1920s. After the Parliament House was opened in 1927, he joined the parliamentary staff, working in the building until his retirement in 1967, when he was Deputy Principal Attendant and Keeper of the Mace. Born in Sydney in ...
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Accommodation, Alan Tregear, Alf Backley, Archie Cameron, Billiard Room, Billy Hughes, Bob Menzies, Bruce Mathews, Builders, Building workers, Burt Fields, Cabinet Room, Canberra (1920s), Caterers, Causeway, Charles Hawker, Charlie Adaman, Choristers, Dame Nellie Melba, David Fairbairn, Doug Blake, Frank Packer, Earle Page, Empire Parliamentary Association, Golf, Gracie Fields, Griffith (NSW), Harry Johnson, Hoskins (steel company), Hotel Canberra, Italians, James ‘Digger’ Dunn, Joe Alexander, John Butters, Joint House Department, Journalists, Kings Hall, Kitchen, Leeton (NSW), Les Dwyer, Littleton Groom, Members Bar, Members Dining Room, Opening ceremony 1927, Opposition Party Room, Parliamentary Refreshment Rooms, Party Room, Press Gallery, Provisional Parliament House, Queanbeyan, Records Office, Sammy Sampson, Save Our Sons, Security, Serjeant-at-arms, Speaker’s Chair, St Andrews Cathedral choir, The Mace, Tradesmen, Vietnam protests, Wilfred Johnson, Working conditions (1920s), World War One
Josephine (‘Jo’) Vallentine, born in 1946, is an Australian peace activist and former senator for Western Australia. She entered the Senate on 1 July 1985 after election as a member of the Nuclear Disarmament Party but sat as an independent and then as a member of the Greens Western Australia fro...
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ALP National Conference, Annabelle Newbur, Anti-Nuclear Alliance, Baha’i, Bob Brown, Bob Hawke, Brian Harradine, Buddhism, Canberra, Catherine Berndt, Catholicism, Charles Court, Children, Colin Barnett, Country Women’s Association, Dorothy Day, Edward St John, Electorate allowance, Environment Centre (WA), Exchange student (USA), Farming, Gareth Evans, George Miles, George Shultz, Green Skills, Greens, Harry Cohen, Indigenous issues, International Year of Peace 1986, Joanna Macy, John Dawkins, Kim Beazley, Loreto Convent Boarding School, Marble Bar (WA), Matthew Fox, Michael Denborough, MX missile crisis, Nuclear disarmament, Nuclear Disarmament Party, Overpopulation, Parents, Peace activists, Peace Education Project, People for Nuclear Disarmament, Peter Garrett, Peter Jones (husband), Peter Walsh, Quaker peace conference (London 1985), Quakers, Ronald Reagan, Ros Kelly, Ruth Coleman, Schooling, Senate, Teachers’ College, University of Western Australia, Uranium mining, Veronica Brady, Vietnam protests, Western Australian Council on Social Services, Women’s Electoral Lobby, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom