1. Civil Liberties and the Referendum.
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Waghorne, James
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COMMUNISM , *CIVIL rights , *REFERENDUM , *LEGISLATION , *PUBLIC opinion , *COMMUNISM & democracy , *POLITICAL parties , *COLD War, 1945-1991 ,AUSTRALIAN politics & government, 1945- - Abstract
The defeat of the Australian government's attempts to outlaw communism in 1950 and 1951 was a significant victory for the protection of civil liberties. Yet for the Australian Council for Civil Liberties, which had fought a long battle against the measures, the result was not greeted with a sense of triumph. The campaign to avert draconian powers exposed a Council struggling to adapt to the Cold War, and revealed tensions in the Council's belief in democratic institutions and the popular opinion that underpinned them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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