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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.
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Contents indexed selectively.
Contents
- Dawes Point : Moral Dilemmas, single work criticism (p. 7-12)
- Johann Lhotsky, Revolutionary, single work criticism (p. 28-35)
- Cabbage Tree and Tricolour, single work criticism (p. 54-60)
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The Henry Lawson Statue : Iconic Henry and 'Faded' Louisa,
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)
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A 'Democratic' Rendezvous' : The Bookshops of Radical Sydney,
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)
- A Convict Legend of the 1890s : Bulletin Place, single work criticism (p. 97-104)
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Death of the World,
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)
- The Venerable Boote : The Worker Building, Castlereagh Street, single work criticism (p. 181-185)
- The Defence of Dhakiyarr Wirrpanda, single work criticism (p. 204-209)
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The New Theatre,
single work
criticism
(p. 210-215)
Note: Includes photographic portrait of Oriel Gray.
- Dorothy Hewett and the Redfern Reds : Lawson Square, single work criticism (p. 265-272)
- The Invisible Maritime Worker : Memorial at the National Maritime Museum, single work criticism (p. 335-347)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
'Radical History and Rebel Voices'
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
Untitled
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
Emerald City's Immortal Subversives
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism
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Emerald City's Immortal Subversives
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
Untitled
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
'Radical History and Rebel Voices'
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism -
Untitled
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 2010 multi chapter work criticism