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“When the crowd dispersed, people heading home via the
railway station were greeted by a mysterious toilet pan in the
middle of the footpath,” The Phantom wrote. “One kind soul
came back and erected a keep left sign so that no-one tripped
over it.”
Hamish Robson, a leading participant in the engineering
group which hung the FJ off the footbridge the following year,
recalls that Chris Stanley and AUES President Andrew Fletcher
were under the platform, while he, his cousin John Hendrickson
and Flett Steele were above. Hamish said former Premier Steele
Hall “climbed onto the platform at one stage and delivered a
stirring address that further whipped up the enthusiasm of
the crowd”.
As the AUES magazine, Hysteresis, later stated: “The AntiDemo Demo has since become a legend.”
Mark Douglas is Editor of Lumen. Images supplied, and courtesy
Hysteresis magazine 1970 from the Barr Smith Library collection.
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