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Exploring the ideas of protest in relation to VCE English

Suffragists

Feminism in Australia

'Reflections on women’s rights – past, present and future’ Australian Human Rights Commission speech given by Rosalind Croucher January 2023

Timeline: the women's movement - Australia ABC News

Women’s Suffrage, South Australia National Museum Australia

The Women's Movement Museum Victoria

Women's Right to vote - Australia

 

Title: Australian Women in Politics

Broadcaster: ABC

Duration: 4:00 minutes

Feminism Internationally

Emmeline Pankhurst Freedom or Death speech November 13 1913

Who were the suffragettes? Museum of London

Are Suffragettes still relevant today? Museum of London The Museum has many artifacts and articles relating to the London movement.

Suffragettes on file The National Archives UK Select primary documents to explore window smashing, hunger strikes and forcible feeding and other aspects of the women's fight for rights.

History Today - Suffragettes articles

Freedom Ride 1965 Australia

1965 Freedom Ride AIATSIS

In 1965, a group of students from the University of Sydney drew national and international attention to the appalling living conditions of Aboriginal people and the racism that was rife in New South Wales country towns. Known as the Freedom Ride, this 15-day bus journey through regional New South Wales would become a defining moment in Australian activism.

 

Students lead 'Freedom Ride' through NSW towns Deadly Story

Protest music

Instagram - Protest by dancing

 Instagram  metamorphosisdanceco 17 March 2025

 

Mahatma Gandhi

How Mahatma Gandhi changed political protest   National Geographic 2019

 

The OG Leader of Nonviolence: Mahatma Gandhi University of Wisconsin-Madison 2021

Martin Luther King Jr

Nonviolence The Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute, Stanford University

 

 Dr King's fundamental philosophy of nonviolence The King Center

CLAUDETTE COLVIN

PEMULWUY

Selection of articles from The Age

TODAY'S ISSUE : Search for recent protest topics

Network (movie excerpt) 1976

Databases

Artist Photoshops Men Out of Political Images

WOMEN PROTEST IN IRAN

Tank Man - Tiananmen Square China

" The Tiananmen Square incident refers to a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing."

"Tiananmen Square incident." Britannica School, Encyclopædia Britannica, 9 May. 2023. school.eb.com.au/levels/middle/article/Tiananmen-Square-incident/609276. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.

  Remembering the Tiananmen Square Crackdown, and the “Tank Man” PBS Frontline 2020

 

Who Was the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square? History Today 2018

Protests

Suggested search terms :   

Occupy Wall Street    Civil Disobedience       

 Black Lives Matter   Rosa Parks

or any of the topics on this page

 

Insight (TV) - Protest June 2023

Insight SBS TV June 2023

Does protesting make things better or worse? And are our laws becoming less tolerant of protestors?

National Gallery of Victoria - Activism and Protest (2021)

ACTIVISM AND PROTEST  : 2021 National Gallery of Victoria

Protests - 3 generations

Protest

Stuart family - 3 generations prepared to stand up and protest.

Newcastle, NSW and Franklin River, TAS

 

Alan Stuart (97 old arrested) Grandfather

newcastle-port-protest-reverend-alan-stuart-97

Video link https://youtu.be/j6MtIeod-WM?si=dnSE4_ExtbwwrPx6

SBS report ​​https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/why-this-97-year-old-grandfather-took-part-in-a-port-blockade/8bh860u1c


 

Graeme Stuart 1982 Son

Protest against the damming of the Franklin River

 

Alexa Stuart Grandaughter

15 years 

climate-strikes

19 years arrested

https://sustainingcommunity.wordpress.com/2022/11/07/my-daughter-was-arrested/