Kathie Herbert photographs of the Australian Communist Party at protests in Sydney and Canberra

PXA 7794

fonds

March-May 1971

Graphic Materials, Photographs

9682021

9 photographic prints - 900 x 900 mm

Kathie Herbert is a lifelong social justice activist and advocate with broad networks Australia wide. She has been involved in grass roots campaigns organising against the Vietnam War, Nuclear Disarmament, Climate Change Action, Aboriginal Rights, Anti- Apartheid Movement, conservation and environmental protection, Public Education and Women’s Liberation among others and a member of many organisations fighting for social change, including The Moratorium Movement, Student Underground, NSW Parents and Citizens Federation, Search Foundation, The Greens, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Rural Australians for Refugees. She is also Chairperson for the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of New England and a Graduate Diploma of Arts (Library and Information Science) from Charles Sturt University.

Reference:
Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group. Accessed 5 August 2024. https://bmrsg.org.au/management-committee/

1-3. Women's Lib contingent assembling at Haymarket and a Student Underground group, Sydney, May Day March, 2 March 1971

4-6. Anti-Vietnam War protests, coinciding with the 1971 Arts Festival held at Australian National University, outside the Department of Labour and National Service, Canberra, 21 May 1971

7-9. Vietnam Moratorium, number 7 taken on the ground of the University of Sydney, and numbers 8 and 9 taken outside Town Hall on George Street, Sydney, May 1971

Arranged in approximate chronological order by date.

In copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales