* The Peoples Book Shop, run by Peter Symon, head of the Communist Party in South Australia and nationally, in Hindley Street, Adelaide city, was under constant serveillance by ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Orgnanisation) during the 1950s.
RADICALS (Left and Right)
RADICALISM A THREAD IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA HISTORY from its 19th Century philosophical foundation in Britain
PHILOSOPHICAL RADICALISM was a strong driving force in the founding of the South Australia as a model province in the 1830s to express ideas being formulated from the start of the century,
The concept of "radical " is used here as meaning ideas that were breaking through norms of their era. In that respsect, three of South Australia's most notable premiers – Charles Cameron Kingston, Thomas Playford and Don Dunstan – from different basic political stances were radicals in their actions.
The Common Cause phenomenon in South Australia was an instance during World War II was another instance of people from difference difference politcial stances joining in what was, for the time, seen as a radical move.
South Australia also provided a home for radicalism in the extremes of both the left and the right of beliefs.
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