A Community in Crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute, 1961–62

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Deery, Phillip ORCID: 0000-0002-2887-8910 (2023) A Community in Crisis: Dr Deery and the Healesville Hospital Dispute, 1961–62. Victorian Historical Journal, 94 (2). pp. 473-496. ISSN 1030-7710

Abstract

This article examines one event in a Victorian country town, Healesville. The dismissal of a doctor in 1961 and the hard-fought campaign for his reinstatement caused a corrosion of trust and the destruction of friendships in this otherwise tight community. Epithets were hurled, public meetings were stormy, and malevolence replaced calm debate. The article suggests that this case represents a striking example of how nascent Cold War paranoia was expressed in small communities and, in microcosm, how political passions, social activism and deep divisions could be generated by a local issue.

Item type Article
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/48266
Subjects Current > FOR (2020) Classification > 4303 Historical studies
Current > Division/Research > College of Arts and Education
Keywords Arthur Deery, Gippsland, xenophobia, anti-communism, Cold War politics, ASIO, Healesville Hospital dispute
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