Professor Tony Blackshield interviewed for the documentary "Hell No We Won't Go"

Professor Blackshield holds a Master’s degree in law from the University of Sydney and was a founding member of the Faculty of Law at UNSW. He has had a long interest in, and has written extensively about, the High Court as an institution and the nature of the judicial process. He is well known as a commentator on constitutional law, international law, and jurisprudence, among other areas. His works include, as co-editor, The Judgments of Justice Lionel Murphy (1986) and, as co-author, Australian Constitutional Law and Theory: Commentary and Materials (2nd edn 1998).

Though not initially opposed to the war he gradually learned that you can't necessarily believe what you read in the papers but must try to work things out for yourself which led him to an anti-war position. At one point he had an article published in Australian "Why I support the moratorium". He was one of the 72 original signatories to the Statement of Defiance in a public signing at Sydney Town Hall on 3 July 1969. Thereafter the movement snowballed until in the end over 8,000 people had signed the Statement.