Youths wait to protest against Malcolm Fraser, Bourke Street 1975

CHAPMAN, Andrew

Registration number

1784241

Artist/maker

CHAPMAN, Andrew

Title

Youths wait to protest against Malcolm Fraser, Bourke Street

Production date

1975

Medium

digital file

Credit line

Purchased, 2020
City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection

Keywords

Andrew Chapman, demonstrations, Bourke Street, Australian politics, Malcolm Fraser, Melbourne, Protests, 1975

Summary

Youths gather in Bourke Street to wait for a protest against Malcolm Fraser held after Gough Whitlam’s government had been dismissed on 11 November 1975 and before the federal election called for 13 December 1975. The youth animosity towards Fraser would last for another eight years and then slowly dissipate with Bob Hawke’s election in 1983. Andrew Chapman