Autonomy Day quiet - 20th July 1967.

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DescriptionAutonomy Day quiet - 20th July 1967. Newcastle Morning Herald.

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Autonomy Day quiet

The University of Newcastle Students’ Autonomy Day celebrations yesterday were the quietist and most orderly on record.

The highlight was the possession down Hunter-street, in which nine floats and about 200 students took part.

For the first time, police kept the procession in one lane to allow traffic to keep moving. In previous years the procession has covered two lanes of Hunter-street and has blocked traffic movement in westerly direction.
Floats took a satiric look at Vietnam, Mr Holt and President Johnson, the churches and censorship. There was an emphasis on avant-garde trends such as hippies, drugs and the psychedelic movement.

Placards included such bon-mots as “Make love not war” and “Pater Pan is a junkie.”
Some of the marchers waved brass incense burners; most were festooned with colour streamers and carried crudely lettered placards.

Crest Float

The most elaborate float was a big paper-mache reproduction of the university’s seahorse crest, painted in bilious green.

Students moved along on-lookers thinly lining Hunter-street to watch the procession pass, selling copies of the student newspaper “Opus.”
Proceeds from the sale of the newspaper go to abschol for the promotion for aboriginal education.

Stunts and student pranks were almost non-existent this year. Students clamed this was an over-reaction to damage caused in last year’s Autonomy day.
Date1967 Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

Last edited by: lyn.keily@newcastle.edu.au

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SubjectAutonomy DayAutonomyNewsclippingsActivismNewspapersEvent Autonomy Day 1967Exhibition Autonomy!

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