Bob Gould (activist)

Great Depression and Aftermath Cold War New Left Contemporary Active Historical Robert Stephen "Bob" Gould (1937 – 22 May 2011) was an Australian activist and bookseller.

[2] Gould went on to fight for many other issues, including Irish civil rights,[3] Indonesian atrocities in East Timor,[4] and the war on Iraq.

[7] He inspired organisations like the scandalously named but nobly aspirational SCREW (the Society for the Cultivation of Revolution Everywhere) and the more sober High School Students Against the Vietnam War.

[9] His bookshops were notable for being fertile hunting grounds of underground comics and posters as well as an eclectic range of books including leftist tracts.

He also stocked (especially at his Leichhardt, New South Wales store), a large range of Betamax video cassettes for many years after the format was considered to be defunct.

Gould's shops pushed the boundaries of Australia's strict censorship laws at the time, and he was often raided by the NSW police vice squad.

[8] In 1969, Gould, then 32 and proprietor of the Third World Bookshop at Woollahra, was charged (along with Ronald James, 20, of Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne) with publishing obscene articles — posters of nineteenth century artist Aubrey Beardsley including Lysistrata and Cinesius Pursuing Myrhenia.