Peter Ross interviewed for the documentary "Hell No We Won't Go"

Peter Ross b 1947 was from a working class Catholic family in Brisbane. As a young and very religious 15 year old he entered the Marist Brothers, was trained at Mittagong, and sent as a Marist Brother to Sydney University. There although his number came up in the conscription lottery, he was exempt. However, in 1968 he left the Marist Brothers and decided to take a position as a draft resister, joined SDS and became politically active. This caused a rift with his family and a great deal of anxiety about being arrested, He participated in street theatre and a demo at the house of Attorney General Tom Hughes. The advent of the Whitlam government changed him from being an anarchist to seeing that having power could accomplish important reforms. He eventually worked as a historian of Latin America at the UNSW and became active in the National Tertiary Education Union. (Description provided by interviewer)