2013.0047
PHOTOGRAPHS OF STUDENT ACTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE WHITE AUSTRALIA POLICY DURING THE 1961 FEDERAL ELECTION [1961-1961]
Creator(s): 
Student Action [1961-],
 Young (nee Tait), Mary E. [-]

Additional material to 2013.0026 donated by Mary Young (nee Tait) relating to the Immigration Reform Group. This collection of photographs includes 7 photographs taken at a demonstration in Melbourne against the White Australia Policy late in 1961, organised by a Melbourne student group formed to campaign against racism, Student Action . The photographs were originally numbered 1-11 (numbers 1, 3, 6, 7, and 10 are missing) but only 6 numbered photographs are included in the collection. Part details of subjects in the photographs supplied by donor include:
2.  Back row: Margaret Crivelli, Rosie Thomas. Front row: far left - John Johnston (President), Mary Tait (with poster, "Labor will give Aborigines the vote.")
4. Unknown, with Mary Tait.
5. Unknown, with Rosie Thomas.
8. Mostly unknown. Front row - John Johnston, Rosie Thomas (with poster, "Control Yes, Colour Bar No.")
9. Painted footpath,  possibly outside the house of John Patterson.
11. Photograph, possibly from University of Melbourne student magazine, Farrago. The donor of this collection recalls that the bearded man and the man with guitar were not students.

An additional un-numbered photograph of the same event shows, L-R: Unknown, Margaret Crivelli, unknown, unknown, Arthur Calwell (Leader of the Labor Party and the Federal Opposition), John Johnson (Chairman of Student Action).

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