Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsConscientious objectorsHistoryEric Macarow designed the campaign advertisment for draft resister Barry Johnston who ran as Australian Labor Party candidate in the Hotham Electorate in the 1972 election. Johnston's opponent was the then Liberal Party Minister for Custons and Exercise, Don Chipp. Macarow designed the advertisment to counter the charge that as an anti-Vietnam War draft resister, Johnston was a 'traitor, coward, misguided, criminal trouble-maker'. Macarow represented him as a concerned 'boy next door'. Even though Johnston was in hiding and could not campaign, he reduced the Liberal majority of votes. The advertisment also mentions the relative scores of candidates on the WEL Guide to women's issues.
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