Derek Fielding interviewed by Lindsay Marshall and Angela Dahlke in the Decades of Division oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5037598
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Fielding, F. D. O. (Fred Derek Osmond), 1929-2014, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 107 min.)
- Series:
- Decades of Division oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Derek Fielding talks about his early interest in civil liberties; growing up in Ireland; his education; his reasons for leaving Ireland and subsequent moves; his impressions of censorship in Australia on arrival in the late 1950s and early 1960s; his impressions of Queensland while living in Western Australia and on arrival to work in the state (1965); Joh Bjelke-Petersen; why politicians impose censorship laws; the inevitability of clash between younger generation and a conservative state government; early efforts to form the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties; his first involvement with Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, early activists and students' attitudes; the non-political stand of the Council for Civil Liberties and relationship with police; his views on police Special Branch activities; reasons for assuming presidency of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, methods for liaising with government and recollections of media attitudes; views on media coverage of events such as protest marches; use of legal observers by the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties during right to march protests of the mid to late 1970s in Brisbane and the involvement of churches.
Fielding discusses the level of support for the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties from trade unions and the Labor Party; the Society to Outlaw Pornography (STOP) and their Campaign Against Regressive Education (CARE); his recollections of changes made as President of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties and methods of operation; his response to Fitzgerald Inquiry findings; Queensland Council for Civil Liberties' views on Queensland's weighted electoral system and other political issues at state and federal levels; the structure and working methods of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties during Fielding's time as president; issues relating to drugs dealt with by the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties in the 1970s under Fielding's presidency; changes to the status of civil liberties under the Goss government; views on whether Australian civil liberties can be applied in other countries and why proposals for a Bill of Rights have failed; the erosion of civil liberties and lower levels of activism among university students; the 'war on terrorism' and its impact on civil liberties; his assessment of changes in civil liberties in Ireland and Australia; his greatest achievements through involvement with Queensland Council for Civil Liberties; the future of the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties.
- Notes:
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- This interview was conducted in association with the Queensland Chapter of the Don Dunstan Foundation and the National Library of Australia.
- Recorded on 28 November 2010 in Kenmore, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Corrected transcript (typescript, 58 leaves)
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