Radical Sydney

Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes

By: Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

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Paperback | 1 June 2010

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Sydney: 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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Acknowledgments	p. viii
Alphabetical table of sites for maps	p. xi
Suburbs of Sydney map	p. xiv
City of Sydney map	p. xvi
Introduction: A different Sydney	p. 1
Dawes Point: Moral dilemmas	p. 7
Observatory Hill: Remembering Vinegar Hill	p. 13
Touring hell: Hyde Park Barracks	p. 21
Johann Lhotsky, Revolutionary	p. 28
Tumult in paradise: The watch houses of Sydney	p. 36
The Mutual Protection Association - The Customs House	p. 46
Cabbage tree and tricolour	p. 54
The 8-hour day and the Holy Spirit - Garrison and Mariners' churches, The Rocks	p. 61
Lucien Henry, Communard - Victoria Street, Kings Cross	p. 67
John Norton and the democratic riots of 1887	p. 75
The Henry Lawson statue: Iconic Henry and 'faded' Louisa	p. 83
A 'democratic rendezvous': The bookshops of radical Sydney Bruce Scates	p. 89
A convict legend of the 1890s - Bulletin Place	p. 97
'Gone bung': The terror of 1893 - The Savings Bank in Barrack Street	p. 105
Defending free speech: On the stump in 1915 - Speakers' corners	p. 114
The Battle of Central	p. 121
Vere Gordon Childe and the pacifists - The Friends' Meeting House, Devonshire Street	p. 130
Merv Flanagan, Labour martyr - The Mortuary Station, Regent Street Lucy Taksa	p. 136
A nerve centre of revolution - Rawson Place	p. 144
The Trades Hall Reds versus the Domain Fascists	p. 151
Australia for Australians: Fred Maynard makes progress - St David's Hall, Surry Hills	p. 161
Joy and rough music on the picket line	p. 168
The death of The World	p. 175
The Venerable Boote - The Worker Building, Castlereagh Street Peter Kirkpatrick	p. 181
Defending Darlinghurst from the Reds - Angel Place	p. 186
The anti-eviction war - Union Street, Erskineville	p. 196
The defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda	p. 204
The New Theatre Michelle Arrow	p. 210
The day of mourning - The Australian Hall, 150-52 Elizabeth Street	p. 216
Welcoming the Nazi tourist - Sydney Town Hall, 1938	p. 223
Ken Cook and the Japanese collaborators - The Grace Building, 77-79 York Street	p. 231
The Battle of Bligh Street	p. 238
Fred Wong and the Chinese Seamen's Union - 175 Hay Street	p. 244
'Barging' at the GPO: Imperialism at bay	p. 251
Margaret Street riot, 1947	p. 257
Dorothy Hewett and the Redfern Reds - Lawson Square	p. 265
The Waterside Workers' Cultural Committee Lisa Milner	p. 273
Youth Carnival defies Menzies: The city of the left in the 1950s	p. 279
P&O wall fountain - Hunter Street	p. 285
Nestor's cellar: Lefties in the sky with diamonds - 72 Oxford Street, Paddington	p. 292
Political bolt-cutting - Sydney University's front lawn	p. 298
The siege of Victoria Street - Kings Cross	p. 305
The conspiracy against Ananda Marga	p. 314
Combating the 'greatest social menace' - Darlinghurst Police Station	p. 321
Survival Day, 26 January 1988, Koori Redfern - The Empress Hotel, Regent Street	p. 328
The 'invisible' maritime worker - Memorial at the National Maritime Museum	p. 335
Recommended reading	p. 348
Index	p. 359
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