Category: Political history

Gietzelt at a Vietnam anti-war meeting, n.d., circa early 1970s, public domain.

(1978) Arthur Gietzelt on Eurocommunism

To say that senator Gietzelt’s article (NR, 2 March) is vague would be the least harsh judgement to be made of it. The article does not sustain a coherent thesis, and this letter would be too long and tedious if it were to deal with each elliptical argument, half thought out idea, stale phrase and factual inaccuracy which clogs senator Gietzelt’s argument, if “argument” is the word for the uncritical treatment of the issues raised in his essay.

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Above and below: Extracts from policy statements on election as University of Sydney delegates to the Australian Union of Students (AUS) published in a supplement to Honi Soit in October 1977. Interestingly, as at March 2020, this particular edition of the student paper has not been digitised on the website http://honisoit.com/archived/ 1/2

(1977) Policy Statement for Election to AUS

Election Statement, published with other student candidates seeking election from the University of Sydney to the Australian Union of Students’ (AUS) Conference, published in Honi Soit, newspaper of the Sydney University Students’ Representative Council, October 1977, p. 18.

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(1976) Unemployment

The May figures for the Australian labour market released by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr. Street, show that 5.2% of the Australian workforce is unemployed. In New South Wales this figure is over 6%. Nationally there was an average of 16.1 people out of work for every job available in May, as compared with 15.4 in April.

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(1975) Sexism and The Citizen

Many members of YLC committed themselves to helping distribute the National Citizen during the election campaign. When they saw that photograph (à la Mirror Bird) a number just plainly refused to distribute the paper.

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(1975) Marx and Engels on the Family – A Rejoiner

In a recent edition of Young Labor, an attempt was made to demolish the persuasiveness of Marx’s theories concerning the family. I will attempt to show that Ms. Herman’s article (1) confuses the views of Marx and Engels as being the same; and, (ii) cryptically analyses the faults of Marx and Engels from what is mysteriously called “the Marxist point of view”.

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