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  1. Before you register for national service

    Art

    Maker: Unknown SYDNEY : COMMITTEE IN DEFIANCE OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE ACT, [N.D.]

    A wounded Vietnamese child carried by an adult after the My Lai massacre. The accompanying text advertises the Draft Counselling Centre, Sydney, and solicits donations to the Committee. The poster was...

    ARTV03041

  2. Before you register for national service think

    Art

    Maker: Unknown SYDNEY : COMMITTEE IN DEFIANCE OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE ACT, [N.D.]

    A wounded Vietnamese child carried by an adult after the My Lai massacre. The accompanying text advertises the Draft Counselling Centre, Sydney, and solicits donations to the Committee. The poster was...

    ARTV03035

  3. Before you register for national service think

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act Comment Publishing Company

    A wounded Vietnamese child carried by an adult after the My Lai massacre. The accompanying text advertises the Draft Counselling Centre, Sydney, and solicits donations to the Committee. The poster was...

    ARTV00867

  4. Boy II, The conscript

    Art

    Maker: Counihan, Noel

    The Vietnam War was Australia's longest war commitment, and lasted from 1962 to 1972. In 1964 the National Service Scheme was introduced. This was a form of conscription that was performed by drawing ...

    ART93178

  5.

    Bristowe, Daryl Wayne (Private, b. 1949)

    Private Record

    Maker: Bristowe, Daryl Wayne Various

    Collection relating to the Vietnam War service of Daryl Wayne Bristowe, Vietnam and Australia, 1970 - 1971. Bristowe served in Vietnam with 1 Australian Reinforcement Unit from 15 July to 9 August 197...

    PR04229

  6. Committee in defiance of National Service Act

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act

    Text poster with lists of supporters of draft resisters, declarations against conscription and advertising rallies throughout Australia. A stylised Moratorium symbol appears on the lower right of the ...

    ARTV00880

  7.

    Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act

    Art

    Maker: Unknown SYDNEY : COMMITTEE IN DEFIANCE OF THE NATIONAL SERVICE ACT, [N.D.]

    A text poster with lists of supporters of draft resisters, declarations against conscription and advertising rallies throughout Australia. A stylised Moratorium symbol appears on the lower right of th...

    ARTV03044

  8. Conscript study; verso: Lower half of a portrait in left profile

    Art

    Maker: Cornish, Richard

    Face study of an Australian conscript for the Vietnam War. The conscript, wearing what appears to be a crown of thorns, has an agonised expression on his face, with mouth wide open as if screaming.

    ART29750

  9.

    Don't register

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act

    Poster with text including statements against the National Service Act and urging draftees not to register. The poster was produced by the Committee in Defiance of the National Service Act. It was for...

    ARTV03054

  10.

    Doomed in advance

    Art

    Maker: Beattie, Ray

    From Beattie's 'Definition of peace' series (1976) this work relates to the artist's feelings as he was waiting for the telephone call that would tell him when he had to leave for Vietnam. The title r...

    ART90130

  11. Fight for peace

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Draft Resisters Union

    Geoff Mullen in mock army uniform at the steps outside Anzac Memorial, Hyde Park, Sydney. The accompanying text urges support for Mullen and repeal of conscription. The poster was issued by the Draft ...

    ARTV00878

  12. Four out of five of these men chose their careers

    Art

    Maker: Unknown SYDNEY : VIETNAM MORATORIUM CAMPAIGN, [N.D.] (SYDNEY : COMMENT PUBLISHING COMPANY)

    Cartoons of five young men, dressed in clothes associated with their careers; a doctor in a white coat with a stethescope in his pocket, a lawyer wearing a cloak and wig, a mechanic and a businessman ...

    ARTV03582

  13.

    Four out of five of these men chose their careers

    Art

    Maker: Unknown Vietnam Moratorium Campaign Comment Publishing Company

    The Vietnam Moratorium Campaigns were a result of a conference held in Canberra in November 1969 to plan a series of protests based on the American Moratorium model. There were three Moratorium campai...

    ARTV00866

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    Frank Amy as an employee of QANTAS involved with transporting troops to Vietnam

    Sound

    Joined Qantas 1956 as an Engineer; started flying in 1963, still flying in 1991; first trip to Vietnam late 1966 early 1967 with Ron "Torchy" Uren and Neville Harang; Flights to Vietnam with Australia...

    S01096

  15.

    Free Zarb

    Art

    Maker: Unknown

    Text poster advertising a public protest at Sydney Town Hall and a poster parade in Martin Place, Sydney, against the gaoling of John Zarb. On 14 October 1969, John Francis Zarb, a 21 year old postal ...

    ARTV03070

  16. Genocide

    Art

    Maker: Unknown SYDNEY : [S.N., N.D.]

    Silhouttes of bomber aircraft flying across the sky. The accompanying text calls for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Vietnam, repeal of the National Service Act and advertises a march in Sydney.

    ARTV03116

  17. I got two years for not being a traitor like Geoff Mullen

    Art

    Maker: Unknown [AUSTRALIA : S.N., N.D.]

    A large cartoon of the head and shoulders of an Australian soldier with an angry expression, holding a rifle and wearing a slouch hat, with a voice bubble above him declaring ' i got two years for not...

    ARTV03121

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    Informal portrait of 2794392 Recruit (later Sapper) Michael John Wighton, an Aboriginal ...

    Photograph

    Maker: Freeman's Photo Service

    Informal portrait of 2794392 Recruit (later Sapper) Michael John Wighton, an Aboriginal serviceman (left), and 2794588 Recruit Ross Spencer (right) sitting on the ground holding their self loading rif...

    P00899.001

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    KAPOOKA, NSW. APRIL 1970. GROUP PORTRAIT OF NATIONAL SERVICEMEN OF 9 PLATOON AND STAFF OF A WING ...

    Photograph

    KAPOOKA, NSW. APRIL 1970. GROUP PORTRAIT OF NATIONAL SERVICEMEN OF 9 PLATOON AND STAFF OF A WING 1 RECRUIT TRAINING BATTALION (RTB). LEFT TO RIGHT: BACK ROW: PRIVATES J. J. SEMLER, A. F. MARSHALL, C. ...

    P01406.002

  20. Let no man be forced to kill: Free Zarb

    Art

    Maker: Unknown [S.L : S.N., N.D.]

    A mistakenly drawn peace symbol overprinted with text. On 14 October 1969, John Francis Zarb, a 21 year old postal worker and part-time student, was the first man to be found guilty of having failed t...

    ARTV00881

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