Gregor MacAuley interviewed for the documentary "Hell No We Won't Go"

Gregor MacAuley was one of three students from his Geelong high school who went to university. He had a Commonwealth scholarship at Melbourne University. He was not a draft resister himself but as president of the SRC and a member of the executive and ultimately president of NUAUS (later AUS and then NUS) he was involved in and witnessed the growth of opposition to conscription from its early days when it was an issue confined largely to the extreme left, with the ALP not taking a position as party. As the numbers of conscripts and anti-conscriptionists increased, the movement began to take off with the Don't Register campaign of 68-69. NU/AUS only began to actively oppose conscription from 1969 on as a result of campaigns through individual campuses and by 1970 MacAuley saw that a substantial majority of the students were (as in the wider community) opposed to conscription. He is an informed witness to The Siege of Melbourne University. (Description provided by interviewer).