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Author
Mickelburough, Peter
Title
Comrie Attacks Protest Course
In
The Herald-Sun
Imprint
[Physical copy courtesy of Viola Wilkins], Melbourne, 27 November, 2000, p. 1
Url
https://professional.dowjones.com/factiva/?LS=sigstr
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Accessed 12 Sept 2020 via http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au:80/record=e1000076~S15

Abstract

Report on the reaction from Victorian Police Commissioner, Neil Comrie to the prospect that organisers of the S11 protests might be used as guest speakers in the advocacy and social action course at RMIT University.

The article quotes Police Chief Commissioner Neil Comrie who said "he would take whatever action he could to ensure such a proposal did not get off the ground." and that he "would be absolutely appalled and outraged if any learning institution were to commit public funds for supporting the sort of tactics engaged in by the S11 Alliance."

However, it also quoted from a statement by RMIT which "dismissed reports that leaders of the S11 anti-globalisation protests at September's World Economic Forum would be invited to lecture students on tactics."

The article refers to the social action elective subject in the School of Social Science, in which, as RMIT public affairs manager Paula Benson informed the Herald-Sun, "the S11 members could be invited to "talk" to students if the S11 protests were used as a case study for an advocacy and social action elective subject in the School of Social Science."

Benson was furhter quoted as stating that "if the S11 protests were studied, students would evaluate the effectiveness of strategies used by the protesters."

A press clipping of this article was deposited in the Reason in Revolt archival collection in around 2011. The full-text online version was accesed at the above url via the University of Melbourne catalogue (http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au:80/record=e1000076~S15 )

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  • Costar, Brian, Vigorous S11 Debate, Herald-Sun, Newspaper cutting, 29 November, 2000, 1 pp. Details