Vietnam War Australia: The Spy Lunch That Changed My Life | Chapter 14 | Razor-Wire Round Our Hearts

In 1968, Australia was split down the middle by the Vietnam War and conscription. In this reading from Chapter 14, “Vietnam War,” I describe what it was like to be a young writer swept up in the anti-war movement, and the extraordinary lunch invitation that nearly sent me to the Mekong Delta as a spy. In this chapter: The late 1960s: protest, Moratorium marches and a nation divided Why I turned down a lucrative Reader’s Digest book deal that required censoring the truth Writing The Surprising Asians, later studied by some 250,000 NSW School Certificate students Meeting American soldiers on R&R at Kings Cross, and the fate of a young B52 pilot A cloak-and-dagger lunch in Kirribilli with two men from ASIO How a single word, “socialist”, changed the course of my life First visits to the Third World Bookshop and the Communist Party of Australia If you enjoy memoir, Australian history and stories from the 1960s counterculture era, please like, subscribe and leave a comment. I’d love to hear your own memories of the Vietnam War era. #VietnamWar #ASIO #AustralianHistory #Memoir #1960s