The Role Of Anti-Vietnam Protests In Australia

Vietnam was a country in constant rebellion against the French occupation. They were promised independence by Japan during World War 2 (WW2) when they occupied the land. When the French later retook it after Japans defeat, the French negated Japans original promise. Ho Chi Minh was a revolutionary who wanted to pursue Japans original promise. Leading the independence movement against France he established a new communist ruled party in his goal to unify Vietnam. (The Northern Chinese controlled and the Southern French controlled Vietnam.)

When France was defeated by Ho Chi Minh and his followers they were pushed back out of South Vietnam. In fear that Vietnam and Asia would become communist, the United Nations declared war.
Australia followed America into the war in 1962 with a small contingent of military advisors later committing 7,600 personal, making it the second largest military commitment by Australia since WW2.
The anti-Vietnam war protests were often lack-luster. Their movements often lacked recognition and many movements faulted from not enough people taking part in them. First public opinions were rapid and critical but hardly noticed by the major public and the government because of their scarcity. It was not exactly that they didn’t exist or they weren’t noticed at all, more or less they weren’t considered to be all