Australia is rarely considered to have been a part of the great political changes that swept
the world in the 1960s: the struggles of the American civil rights movement student revolts in
Europe guerrilla struggles across the Third World and demands for women's and gay liberation.
This book tells the story of how Australian activists from a diversity of movements read about
borrowed from physically encountered and critiqued overseas manifestations of these rebellions
as well as locating the impact of radical visitors to the nation. It situates Australian
protest and reform movements within a properly global - and particularly Asian - context where
Australian protestors sought answers utopias and allies. Dramatically broadens our
understanding of Australian protest movements this book presents them not only as
manifestations of local issues and causes but as fundamentally tied to ideas developments and
personalities overseas particularly to socialist states and struggles in near neighbours like
Vietnam Malaysia and China.'Jon Piccini is Research and Teaching Fellow at The University of
Queensland Brisbane Australia. His research interests include the history of human rights and
social histories of international student migration.'
