George Williams: ‘More Important Than A Half Dozen General Elections?’, The Communist Referendum

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22/09/2021 31 min Episodio 6
George Williams: ‘More Important Than A Half Dozen General Elections?’, The Communist Referendum

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Seventy years ago Australians were asked to give the Federal Government sweeping powers to ban communists and legislate on them, and by the narrowest of margins they voted ‘no’. Leading Australian constitutional lawyer, Professor George Williams, joins Afternoon Light to discuss the 70th anniversary of the Communist Party Referendum on 22 September 2021.

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