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Fifty years ago this month, 200,000 people marched through Australia’s cities in the first Vietnam moratorium. The period leading up to the demonstrations had been tumultuous on campuses across the country, including at the University of Queensland. Already by 1967, opposition to conscription had merged there with protests against the state government’s restrictions on civil liberties, unleashing an escalating tide of agitation.
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Universities now are outdated.
Student protests against communism or any form of socialism have long been vigorously opposed by university administrations. UQ has just stepped it up a notch or two.
The people who were marching to support the Viet Kong and the North Vietnamese invasion of the South now run the universities.
Useful idiots.
The cost and risk of the Vietnam War effectively put an end to the USSR’s forays into SE Asia.
Let us see – who does this describe from Henry’s Article
Nor is it to gloss over the grievous faults of the students and staff who regularly packed the “forum” at St Lucia, as the campus’ main meeting ground was called. They were, on the contrary, blind to the crimes of the North Vietnamese and ignored the horrors their victory would bring.
You mean all wasn’t peace and lurve after the “liberation” of South Vietnam?
So – he’s been suspended for 2 years, with the Chancellor Varghese promising a review next week, because he’s ‘personally concerned’.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3086748/australian-student-who-led-anti-beijing-protests-suspended
Hoj has stepped in stating that he finds the punishment severe.