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Poster - Keep Dover PUBLIC.

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TF1299411 Framed picture store 1C [Bookstack]
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Record Number 19065
Location Framed picture store 1C [Bookstack]
Title Poster - Keep Dover PUBLIC. [Poster]
Published 1982.
Collation 1 poster : col. 32 x 48 cm.
General Note Blue circle with keep Dover Public in the middle yellow. On acquisition attached to wooden backing. No. 10? in a series belonging to NSW Teachers Federation at 300 Sussex Street, Sydney. TUT (Trade Union Training) 1999. 32 x 48 cm.
Transferred to library by Mel Smith, Trade Union Training Officer, September 2018.
Collection code: Artworks.
Probable date of creation 1982.
Created for NSW Teachers Federation "Keep Dover PUBLIC" campaign.
Framed poster on display in library October 2020.
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 Posters. -- Public education -- New South Wales
Teachers -- Political activity
Public schools -- New South Wales
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