Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly EpisodesSydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern. |
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... Domain Fascists 151 22 Australia for Australians : Fred Maynard makes 161 progress - St David's Hall , Surry Hills 23 Joy and rough music on the picket line 168 24 The death of The World 175 25 The Venerable Boote - The Worker Building ...
... Domain Fascists 151 22 Australia for Australians : Fred Maynard makes 161 progress - St David's Hall , Surry Hills 23 Joy and rough music on the picket line 168 24 The death of The World 175 25 The Venerable Boote - The Worker Building ...
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Contents
A different Sydney | 1 |
Moral dilemmas | 7 |
Remembering Vinegar Hill | 13 |
Hyde Park Barracks | 21 |
5 Johann Lhotsky revolutionary | 28 |
The watch houses of Sydney | 36 |
The Customs House | 46 |
8 Cabbage tree and tricolour | 54 |
26 Defending Darlinghurst from the Reds | 186 |
Union Street Erskineville | 196 |
28 The defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda | 204 |
29 The New Theatre | 210 |
The Australian Hall 15052 Elizabeth Street | 216 |
31 Welcoming the Nazi tourist Sydney Town Hall 1938 | 223 |
The Grace Building 7779 York Street | 231 |
33 The Battle of Bligh Street | 238 |
Garrison and Mariners churches The Rocks | 61 |
10 Lucien Henry Communard Victoria Street Kings Cross | 67 |
11 John Norton and the democratic riots of 1887 | 75 |
Iconic Henry and faded Louisa | 83 |
The bookshops of radical Sydney | 89 |
Bulletin Place | 97 |
The terror of 1893 The Savings Bank in Barrack Street | 105 |
On the stump in 1915 Speakers corners | 114 |
17 The Battle of Central | 121 |
The Friends Meeting House Devonshire Street | 130 |
The Mortuary Station Regent Street | 136 |
Rawson Place | 144 |
21 The Trades Hall Reds versus the Domain Fascists | 151 |
Fred Maynard makes progress St Davids HallSurry Hills | 161 |
23 Joy and rough music on the picket line | 168 |
24 The death of the World | 175 |
The Worker Building Castlereagh Street | 181 |
175 Hay Street | 244 |
Imperialism at bay | 251 |
36 Margaret Street riot 1947 | 257 |
Lawson Square | 265 |
38 The Waterside Workers Cultural Committ ee | 273 |
39Yout h Carnivaldefies MenziesThe city of theleft in the 1950 | 279 |
40 PO wall fountain Hunter Street | 285 |
Lefties in the sky with diamonds 72 Oxford Street Paddington | 292 |
Sydney Universitys front lawn | 298 |
Kings Cross | 305 |
44 The conspiracy against Ananda Marga | 314 |
Darlinghurst Police Station | 321 |
The Empress Hotel Regent Street | 328 |
47 The invisible maritime wor ker Memorial at the NationalMaritime Museum | 335 |
Recommended reading | 348 |
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