AhernM, Letter to the Editor The Chronicle, Toowoomba, 1/8/1979, 25.
2.
WollstonecraftM, Leiter to the Editor, The Chronicle, Toowoomba, 28/8/1979, 6.
3.
ScottAScottR, Reform and Reaction in the Deep North: Education and Policy Making in Queensland, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne, Parkville, 1980. In this they refer to the “sharing of literature” with American groups p41 and the use by attribution (by speakers) of “Congressional debates in which the supporters of the John Birch Society pursued similar political arguments”, p24.
4.
In an earlier monograph on the same subject by the same writers (Fundamentals and Fundamentalists: A Case Study of Education and Policy Making in Queensland, APSA Monograph No 22. Adelaide, 1979) they state that a composite tape from American broadcasts had been a source for many statements and letters to the press p19. They also noted that (he main spokesman for a particularly active group (STOP and CARE), Mrs Joyner “was also writing letters to the press …”. p26.
5.
FleschR, The Art of Readable Writing, Collier-Macmillan, London, 1949, 224–229. Briefly, the method for calculating “Readability” or “Reading ease” is to select 100 words approximately and 1) Find the average sentence length in number of words, 2) count the number of syllables per 100 words. 3) apply the formula Reading Ease = 206.835 - (1.015 x average sentence length + 0.846X number of syllables per hundred words).
6.
Bureau of Census and Statistics, Bulletin 7, Characteristics of Population and Dwellings in Local Government Areas, 1971, Vol 3, Queensland. CBCS, Canberra. 1973.
7.
This characteristic is also commented upon by the Scotts in their Reform end Reaction in the Deep North, p6.
8.
SmithRKnightJ, Political Censorship in the Teaching of Sociology: Queensland Scenarios. A paper delivered at the Sociological Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference at Canberra CAE, July, 1979.
