A Turbulent Decade - Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965 - 1975

Edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill

During the turbulent decade 1965-1975, a cultural revolution took place in Australia. The future was seeded with movements and ideas that changed Australian society and culture, and enlarged the space for democratic action. In A Turbulent Decade: Social Protest Movements and the Labour Movement, 1965-1975, edited by Beverley Symons and Rowan Cahill, veterans of the period recall and reflect upon the decade, often candidly, at times vulnerably so. The focus is Sydney and New South Wales, and a great deal that is new is added to the public record. The book covers the Anti-Vietnam War and Anti-Conscription Movements, the Student, New Left and Counter Culture Movements, Women's Liberation, Gay and Lesbian Rights, Aboriginal Land Rights and Civil Rights, the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Trade Union Movement, and the Australian Labor Party.

Contributors are Brian Aarons, Anthony Ashbolt, Wendy Bacon, Suzanne Bellamy, Lester Bostock, Charlie Bowers, Meredith Burgmann, Rowan Cahill, Jack Cambourn, Bruce Childs, Ken Davis, Diane Fieldes, Dulcie Flower, Graham Freudenberg, Hall Greenland, Bob Gould, Noreen Hewett, Suzanne Jamieson, Craig Johnston, Gillian Leahy, Greg Mallory, Race Mathews, Audrey McDonald, Tom McDonald, Peter McGregor, Jack Mundey, John Myrtle, Sue Tracey, Shane Ostenfeld, Joe Palmada, John Percy, Robyn Plaister, Mavis Robertson, Lyndall Ryan, Joyce Stevens, Paul True, Barrie
Unsworth, Sue Wills.

Published by the Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History

ISBN 0 909944 09 1

First published: 2005

Available from:

Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH)
PO Box 1027 Newtown NSW 2042
ABN: 68-349-801-417

$20ea plus $4ea postage

Communism in Australia: A Supplementary Resource Bibliography, c.1994-2001.

Compiled by Beverley Symons with an Introduction by Stuart Macintyre

Communism in Australia: A Resource Bibliography (Symons, Wells and Macintyre, National Library of Australia, 1994), has been a valuable resource tool for researchers of the Communist Party of Australia and the impact of communism on Australian society.

This 90-pp. supplementary biography will again assist all scholars of the subject. It brings the collection of relevant sources up to date, with almost 800 items listed, including manuscript and oral history collections, books, chapters, articles, reviews and theses.

Publisher: Sydney Branch, Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Price: AUS $14.95 + $2 postage (GST not applicable).

Orders can be placed by phone (612 2) 4962-2160 or bevsym@hunterlink.net.au