Taking it to the streets: 70 years of Qld protest marches
While Extinction Rebellion might be making headlines right now, street protests are nothing new to Queensland’s long line of activists.
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Extinction Rebellion’s tactics are nothing new. Queenslanders have been protesting for decades against everything from apartheid to censorship and even drainage problems.
Even in the contented 1950s, unionists regularly took to the streets to raise their voices about low wages.
By the 1960s, feminists and anti-Vietnam War protesters had taken their place.
And by the 1970s and early 1980s, street marches hit top gear as the repressive Bjelke-Petersen government cracked down hard on dissidents.
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