Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsConscientious objectorsPolitical activistsHistoryBorn and educated in Melbourne, Rivett became a prominent and outspoken activist for peace. He was co-secretary of the Australian Peace Pledge Union in Victoria after 1938 and was involved in the campaign to support conscientious objectors during World War II. He began studying at the University of Melbourne in 1941, but his study was interrupted by war. He returned in 1945, receiving a BA, then MA and finally a Ph.D. in Economics in 1954 - the first PhD granted in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce. Rivett had a long career at the University of New South Wales, and died in September 2004.
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