Phantom Civil Liberties Marches - Queensland University 1978-79

Non violent politics in action at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia (1978 - 1979). Part of the Queensland Campaign for Civil Liberties. This campaign's street marches aimed to restore the basic rights to peaceful protest denied to citizens for over a decade by the repressive Joh Bjelke-Petersen State Government.
In effect a police state existed in which democratic rights to effective free speech and meaningful citizen opposition to such abuses of power were dead.

More information on the era:
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/the-making-of-civil-liberties/story-e6freo...

For more on Joh Bjelke-Petersen on YouTube - See 'Joh's Jury' in 12 parts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeR0REXzzrk

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Great work.

Let all Australians remember this episode in the recent history of Queensland, so that it is never allowed to happen again.