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View from The Hill: Should we accept displaying the Hezbollah flag as (shocking) free expression?

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par Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

In May 1970, about 70,000 people occupied the Melbourne CBD for the moratorium protest against the Vietnam war.

The Age newspaper reported:

There were Viet Cong flags – carried mainly by members of the Monash Labor Club, who chanted ‘Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh …’. ‘Join us, join us’, the marchers shouted to shoppers and the pavement bystanders.

Labor left-winger Jim Cairns (who went on to be deputy prime minister) led the march. The then Victorian Liberal premier Henry Bolte was dismissive, contesting the numbers and saying “they were all…

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