Super 8 Soldiers

Clip 2: ‘Punch a postie’

2 min 18 sec

Taken from the documentary Super 8 Soldiers (1991)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

Vietnam veteran Peter Stainthorpe recollects the anti-Vietnam demonstrations with ambivalence. He explains that when unions put a go-slow on mail delivery to soldiers in Vietnam as part of the protest, that was too much and the ‘punch a postie’ campaign was born. Peter’s mother, Kath, was annoyed with the protestors at the time but comments that she would take a different view of conscription now.

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