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In the high tide the centre of activism was unquestionably UQ. By the early seventies that had already begun to change. Some movements which picked up pace in the seventies began as primarily community based, or quickly shifted toward that. This was the case for the environment, Aboriginal rights, women’s, and gay movements.
As far as the gay movement 26 is concerned the community based and Australia wide CAMP 27 initiated developments at UQ.
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4ZZZ and Semper are also instances of the move into the community. From its modest start the station had become central to rock music and alternative culture, and a useful resource for non-mainstream political groups, campaigns and ideas. It had long outgrown the student life when, after a final bout of extremely bitter Union controversy (including an attempted eviction), it moved off-campus in 1989. 30 See also Endnotes 28 & 29
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Semper also made a valiant foray off campus. Semper editor Bruce Dickson has written an account of this. The anti-war movement also moved into the community.
Change in nuclear policy with the adoption of strategic use of nuclear weapons, and the consequent deployment of cruise missiles in Europe, provoked a new world-wide upsurge of protest in the eighties. In Australia this merged with the already established movement against uranium mining and export which began in the mid-seventies. |
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In Brisbane this was community based, rather than primarily a campus phenomenon. The ground work had been laid by Campaign Against Nuclear Power (CANP), 31 which was based throughout the suburbs, and from which People for Nuclear Disarmament was formed in 1982. There was extensive campus involvement, represented at UQ by the Campus Movement Against Uranium Mining, 32 and the newly established Griffith University was soon prominent on these issues. |
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The sixties seeds society
