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Is there a ‘right to disobey’?
From the Vietnam War to today’s climate protests
One of the first moves of the newly elected Whitlam Labour government in December 1972 was to free seven men imprisoned for their beliefs.
- Jon Piccini
- The Conversation
Their crime had been refusal to comply with the National Service Act, a so-called “lottery of …