Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsHistoriansHistoryPhilip Mendes wrote his Ph.D. on "Welfare Politics in Australia: A History of the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS)". Mendes is also the author of "The New Left, the Jews and the Vietnam War", (North Caulfield Lazare, 1993). The Australian Union of Students held debates on the Middle East in 1974-1975, and irregularly for a time thereafter. Mendes, who was writing a book on a related topic, conducted these interviews which were used in "The Australian Union of Students Middle East Debates 1974- 1975", published in the Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal, Vol.VII, 1993.