If you remember the Sixties you weren’t there.

The Sixties — an era of protest, free love, civil disobedience, duffel coats, flower power, giant afros and desert boots, all recorded on grainy black and white film footage — marked a turning point for change. Radicals found their voices and used them.

While the initial trigger for protest was opposition to the Vietnam War, this anger quickly escalated to include Aboriginal Land Rights, Women’s Liberation, Gay Liberation, Apartheid, and ‘workers’ control’. 

In Radicals, some of the people doing the changing reflect on how the decade changed them and Australian society forever.

Fifty years on from that era, it is timely to consider the radicalisation of the generation who came of age in the Sixties — how our conversion to radical action came about, how it changed us, and how it changed the society in which we all live today.