Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 2. 1966.
Girls' drink-in
Girls' drink-in
Australian university girl demonstrators are not taking things lying down.
"In" thing at Australian National University (Canberra) is a new twist to the old suffragette theme.
Girls there have been staging "drink-in" demonstrations in segregated hotel bars.
About a dozen girls, accompanied by echelons of press reporters, attacked the Civic Hotel's policy of an all-male saloon bar late last year.
Equality
Some, it seems, felt it was a principle of equality for which they were demonstrating.
Others, the pragmatists, objected more to the expensive drinks, artificial atmosphere, and plastic flowers of the "Ladies lounge."
The management refused to serve any of the women, but they drank on through the afternoon thanks to freely given male support.
"The Australian" called this a success, the "Canberra Times" called it a failure, while the Melbourne "Age's" reporter called it the "best assignment I've ever been on."