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Poster - Dover Heights: Govt gives in on school.

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TF1282222 Plan cabinet drawer 6
Artworks unframed, water damaged . Available .  
TF1282863 Plan cabinet drawer 6
Artworks unframed, good condition . Available .  
TF1285407 Framed picture store 1C [Bookstack]
Artworks Framed poster . Available .  
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Record Number 14383
Location Plan cabinet drawer 6
Title Poster - Dover Heights: Govt gives in on school. [Poster]
Published Sydney : John Fairfax and Sons, 1983.
Collation Headline poster from Sydney Morning Herald, November 18, 1983.
General Note Headline relating to Dover Heights Boys High School.
First copy donated by Frank Barnes 2010.
Collection code: Artworks.
For copyright reasons the original cannot be displayed on the library catalogue.
Weight of framed poster 2.3 kg.
Poster for Keep Dover PUBLIC campaign.
Summary Note Campaign note: In July 1982 it was announced that Dover Heights Boys High School would be sold. “The Federation could not accept the prospect. It initially offered formal resistance and pursued conventional forms of lobbying and persuasion, including huge parent and teacher protest meetings. When this failed the stakes were raised. The government was intransigent. The sale was to go through. A rich private school, Moriah College, would have the site. Then the union moved to picketing the site. The picket line was maintained for 15 days and nights with teachers and union officials involved. An entire Federation annual conference was reconvened at the school for a period [21 December 1982]. The union came under intense pressure and the standard-issue media condemnation of the Federation ensured. Death threats were made against members of the union’s leadership. The president had to be given protection. Community members rallied and sent supplies, including chicken soup, to the picketers. It was a long struggle. A public picnic was held in the park adjacent to the school and the picnic-goers were confronted with the sight of armed guards and Dobermans patrolling the public school. Those at the picnic were also alarmed at the guards taking photographs of parents and teachers and community members protesting the government intentions.” – Denis Fitzgerald, Teachers and their times. Finally, on 17 November 1983, it was announced that Dover Heights would become a TAFE College.
Subject School closures
Dover Heights Boys High School
Public education -- New South Wales
Teachers -- Political activity
Public schools -- New South Wales
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