In March 1969, Brisbane student and political activist Margaret Bailey was suspended from Inala High School – ostensibly for “undermining the authority” of her teacher – prompting claims of political suppression. Through a case study of the subsequent campaign for Bailey’s reinstatement, the purpose of this paper is to explain the emergence of the high school activist as a new political actor in the late 1960s.,The paper draws on newsletters and pamphlets produced by Brisbane activists, alongside articles from the left-wing and mainstream press, to reconstruct the key events of the campaign and trace the major arguments advanced by Bailey and her supporters.,Initiated by the high school activist group, Students in Dissent (SID), the campaign in support of Bailey lasted over two months, culminating in a “chain-in” staged by Bailey at the Queensland Treasury Building on 8 May. Linking together arguments about students’ rights, civil liberties and democratic government, the campaign reveals how high school activism was enabled not only by the broader climate of political dissent in the late 1960s, but by the increasing emphasis on secondary education as a right of modern citizenship in the preceding decades.,This is the first study of the campaign for Bailey’s reinstatement at Inala High School and one of the only analyses to date of the political mobilisation of high school students in Australia during the late 1960s. The case study of the Bailey campaign underlines that secondary school students were important players in the political contests of the late 1960s and, if only for brief periods, were able to command the attention of education officials, the media and leading politicians. It represents an important historical precedent for contemporary high school activism, including the global School Strike 4 Climate movement.

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玛格丽特·贝利案

1969年3月，布里斯班的学生和政治活动家玛格丽特·贝利（Margaret Bailey）因因“破坏老师的权威”而从伊那拉高中被停学，引发了政治镇压的指控。通过对随后的贝利恢复运动的案例研究，本文的目的是解释1960年代后期高中激进主义者作为新的政治演员的出现。该论文借鉴了布里斯班激进主义者制作的新闻通讯和小册子，该活动与左翼和主流媒体的文章一起，重构了该运动的关键事件，并追溯了贝利及其支持者提出的主要论点。该运动由高中激进团体“持不同政见的学生”（SID）发起。对Bailey的支持持续了两个多月，5月8日，贝利（Bailey）在昆士兰州财政部大楼举行的“连锁”活动最终达到高潮。该运动将有关学生权利，公民自由和民主政府的论点联系在一起，揭示了不仅由于1960年代后期政治异议气氛日益广泛，而且日益强调将中学教育作为现代权利，这使得高中行动主义得以实现这是前几十年的公民身份。，这是贝利在伊纳拉高中复职的运动的首次研究，也是迄今为止对1960年代后期澳大利亚高中学生进行政治动员的唯一分析之一。对Bailey竞选活动的案例研究突显出，中学生是1960年代后期政治竞赛中的重要角色，而且，即使只是短暂时期，能够引起教育官员，媒体和主要政治人物的注意。它代表了当代中学运动的重要历史先例，包括全球“学校罢工4”气候运动。