Jean McLean as a member 'Save our sons' organisation interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'

Roll 23 Scene 20. Take 1 beginning of the Save our sons movement; started with women who were friends who were concerned about their sons being conscripted for overseas service; manifesto against conscripts having to serve overseas; organised public meetings through the newspaper; around one and fifty women turned up; held demonstration in city square and every thirteen weeks outside the barracks at Richmond; wrote letters to the editor; wrote letters to people who were against the war or conscription; reaction of the government and military; movement was against Australia sending any military personnel as they thought the war was unjust; movement was against the government not the servicemen; protests at Richmond barracks for three to four years; story of one conscript asking for help and how they drove him away chased by the military; the war was wrong and the US involvement was wrong and she hasn't changed her mind and is now more sure than ever that Australia shouldn't be involved in other peoples' countries and affairs; Take 2. Considers that the movement was effective in that it started and maintained the debate on conscientious objectors, conscription and the war in Vietnam; how they ran an effective underground movement for draft resistors with a system of safe houses; never had anyone picked up from a safe house; kept secrecy so that even journalists were kept in the dark; story of how two journalists were covered by a blanket so they couldn't see where they were going.