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University of Queensland Democratic Club
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University of Queensland Democratic Club (1945-197?).
Objectives - To maintain academic freedom in an era where the actions of sections of the university community threaten this freedom and to articulate policies for the security and betterment of Australian democratic society, policies which often conflict with left-wing ideologies.
Publicists - Pat Byrne, Phil Lawler, David Lewis, Catherine Mullins.
Notes: The Club was originally formed to encourage political discussion with an emphasis on constitutional reform. It soon became defunct and was revived in the late sixties-early seventies period. It was associated with the "Counter-Revolutionary Moratorium Committee".