Identity area
Type of entity
Corporate body
Authorized form of name
Committee of Fifty for the Investigation of the Liquor Problem
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Description area
Dates of existence
History
Committee of Fifty (1982). Formerly the "Makerston Street 10".
Objectives - The end of the permit system of control of leaflet distribution, public speaking in the streets, busking, picketing, assembly, carrying of placards and marching; the repeal of the Commonwealth Games Act; the repeal of oppressive Brisbane municipal ordinances.
Notes: The Committee of Fifty was set up to organize a specific day (September 15) of civil disobedience against the Traffic Act regulations requiring permits for various means of political expression and to organize a number of preliminary actions.