Buckley's!: Ken Buckley, Historian, Author and Civil Libertarian

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Ken Buckley - historian, academic and enemy to thoughtless bureaucrats - was rarely silent, fearlessly standing up to injustice and oppression in any of its manifestations against those in power who trampled on individual rights.

Best known as the founding member and leading activist of the NSW Council for Civil Liberties (CCL) he was a tenacious fighter against censorship and police corruption and the intrusive powers of ASIO. He supported students during the anti-conscription protests of the Vietnam War, resisted erosions of academic freedom and challenged discrimination in all its forms.

In BUCKLEY'S! Ken Buckley gives a candid and vividly lived-in account of his professional and personal life, revealing his vulnerabilities as well as his unswerving commitment to "natural justice". His autobiography is published posthumously by his widow, Berenice Buckley, also a CCL founding member and active worker for immigrant rights and social diversity.

Says Berenice, 'Ken was a more complex man than often showed up-front. He had a sharp-and often rashly interventionist!-sense of justice, a formidable and driving intellect and a robust, highly infectious sense of humour. I want people to see, and perhaps be inspired by, the man behind the accolades and the brickbats gathered over his long career as a soldier, historian, teacher and political activist."