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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 protesters 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' (publisher's blurb).

Includes chapters on literary identities associated with Sydney.

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:University of New South Wales Press , 2010 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Dawes Point : Moral Dilemmas, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 7-12)
Johann Lhotsky, Revolutionary, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 28-35)
Cabbage Tree and Tricolour, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 54-60)
The Henry Lawson Statue : Iconic Henry and 'Faded' Louisa, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism
'Not far from where Mrs Macquarie's Road crosses over the Cahill Expressway, on a grassy Domain knoll overlooking Woolloomooloo Bay, is a statue of short story writer and poet Henry Lawson (1867-1922). Unveiled in 1931 by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, the Lawson tribute depicts the writer accompanied by 'bush' symbols associated with his literary and real life: a swagman, a fence post, and a dog. As Governor Game (an Englishman) told the Lawson family members and Sydney notables who had gathered for the unveiling, Lawson was 'the voice of Australia' who proclaimed 'far and wide the ideal which, in the simple dialect of the bush, is called 'Mate-iness.'' (p. 83)
(p. 83-88)
A 'Democratic' Rendezvous' : The Bookshops of Radical Sydney, Bruce Scates , single work criticism
'George Black, founder of Sydney’s Republican League and the first Labor member of Parliament in New South Wales, socialist, secularist, slanderer, boozer, Labor rat and sexual libertine, will no doubt be remembered for many things. But he should be praised by us all as an insatiable, inspired and extraordinarily eclectic reader.' (p. 89)
(p. 89-96)
A Convict Legend of the 1890s : Bulletin Place, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 97-104)
Death of the World, Rowan Cahill , Terry Irving , single work criticism
'This is the story of how the labour movement lost a daily newspaper and was deceived into giving a leg-up to the Packers, the super-wealthy family that is now one of Australia’s main centres of business and political power.' (p. 175)
(p. 175-180)
The Venerable Boote : The Worker Building, Castlereagh Street, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 181-185)
The Defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 204-209)
The New Theatre, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 210-215)
Note: Includes photographic portrait of Oriel Gray.
Dorothy Hewett and the Redfern Reds : Lawson Square, Rowan Cahill , Terry Irving , single work criticism (p. 265-272)
The Invisible Maritime Worker : Memorial at the National Maritime Museum, Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , single work criticism (p. 335-347)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Untitled Jeff Rickertt , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , March vol. 57 no. 1 2011; (p. 125-126)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
'Radical History and Rebel Voices' Ingeborg van Teeseling , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 24 no. 2 2010; (p. 214-215)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
Untitled Janis Bailey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Queensland Journal of Labour History , September no. 11 2010; (p. 45-47)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
Emerald City's Immortal Subversives Ross Fitzgerald , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
Emerald City's Immortal Subversives Ross Fitzgerald , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 June 2010; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
Untitled Janis Bailey , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Queensland Journal of Labour History , September no. 11 2010; (p. 45-47)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
'Radical History and Rebel Voices' Ingeborg van Teeseling , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 24 no. 2 2010; (p. 214-215)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
Untitled Jeff Rickertt , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Journal of Politics & History , March vol. 57 no. 1 2011; (p. 125-126)

— Review of Radical Sydney : Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes Terry Irving , Rowan Cahill , 2010 multi chapter work criticism
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