Justifying the ban

Industry workers

How to identify a communist

1950

the CPA was to be declared an unlawfulorganisation and that the party's propertycould be seized and disposed of.

Anyone who carried on the work of theparty after it was declared illegal was to bejailed for five years

as soon as someone was declared to be a communist,they were to be suspended from their job if it were inthe federal government, the defence forces, or in theunions

a communist was 'a person who supports oradvocates the objectives, policies, teachings,principles or practices of communism, asexpounded by Marx and Lenin

Bill failed on first attemptbecause of the ALP said thatthe bill was a move towards atotalitarian state

The CPA and trade unionswent to the high court toask for an injunction

1951 Referendum

Each Party recognises that aggression by means of armed attack in the Treaty Area against any of the Parties or against any State or territory which the Parties by unanimous agreement may hereafter designate, would endanger its own peace and safety, and agrees that it will in that event act to meet the common danger in accordance its constitutional processes.

Article IV of the SEATO Treaty, 1954

The main point of the treaty is "The parties will consult together whenever, in the opinion of any one of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened in the Pacific."

Article III of the ANZUS Treaty, 1951

Not until 1994 was Agentorange acknowledged fordiseases

Pyschologial issues withhandling these diseases.

Heart Disease and Otheralcohol related diseases

Felt Blamed for the war

Emotionally detached fromfamily and lives

overcrowded, unsanitary and unable todeal with the evergrowing numbers ofpeople arriving