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The Push - Australia's Culture PortalBrian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
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John Tranter site - John Tranter reviews «Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push» (website John Tranter )Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push by Anne Coombs. They were the Sydney Push, a loose and changing group of bohemian intellectuals, university lecturers, adventurous secretaries, journalists, gamblers, writers, free-thinking businessme...
Her Rock Encycylopedia, published in 1969, was the first book of its kind and established Roxon as a leading critic and chronicler of rock culture. It also contains a generous selection of Roxon's own writing, including material from her Rock Encyclopedi...
More information about Lillian Roxon can be found in the AWAP register. Journalist, foreign correspondent and rock music expert Lillian Roxon enjoyed a long and varied career before her untimely death in New York at the age of 41. She was the first full-t...
Associate Professor Wendy Bacon is a widely-acclaimed investigative journalist. Her articles in the National Times on the attempted bribe and murder of Detective Michael Drury in the 1980s formed the basis of the ABC television series, Blue Murder. Baco...
The band Clever Horse came up from Melbourne to play at Jazzgroove. They played the Spanish-sounding tune that opened their Jazzgroove set. It was seductive and euphoric, reminding me a little of Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins playing La Rosita on the ...
Today, Wendy Bacon teaches investigative journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney. Bacon, Wendy, 'Voices of Dissent Around Sydney Harbour', Australian Society, March 1988. Bacon, Wendy, 'Journalism as Research', Australian Journalism Review (A...
Milliken, Robert, Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2002. Roxon, Lillian, Rock Encyclopedia, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1969, 611 pp. Milliken, Robert, 'Roxon, Lillian (1932-1973)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Austr...
Formation of the ACTU 4 The Universal Declaration of Human Rights 4 Immigration And Racism 5 The Push 6 The Freedom Ride 6 The Gurindji Strike 7 May 1968 8 Vietnam 8 Green Bans 9 The Green Movement 10 Aboriginal Tent Embassy 10 Broadmeadows Strike 11 Camp...
The Social Justice Almanac is compromised of a collection of 12, eight-minute audio programs, accompanying feature articles and 26 short scripts. Click this link to download an MS Word format document containing the text of the twenty six live read scrip...
When the family moved to Sydney she attended Kambala Church of England Girls' School, and later Sydney University, where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in... On her return to Australia, Johnson worked for Sydney's Sun-Herald, the National Times a...
F/ A- 18 upgrade shoots down Eurofighter This low resolution (72 dpi) PDF of James Craig Crew News is optimised for screen display. CDs of photos appearing here and others are available free of charge to crew members for their personal use or for promot...
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997 BY Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601 The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those o...
‘Millicent Eastwood’ in Volume 14 as a representative ‘landlady’ was a dreary, trivial case in point and raises a question as to how she was chosen. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, 1940–80. Pik–Z, John R...
Don Bradman is an Australian icon, yet he was such a distinctly un-Australian hero. A myth, wrote Mircea Eliade, is a ‘true story’ because it is ‘sacred, exemplary and significant’. Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth, Brett Hutchi...
This month, the Newcastle Jazz Festival (24-26 August) brings together jazz and blues musicians of local and national note. Hope and hardship, war and loss, and heroes and villains are featured in 'National Treasures from Australia's Great Libraries', in...
Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...
Do Bohemians inevitably turn into bourgeois suburbanites? Who is threatened by the amorality and drug cultures of Bohemia (Marcus Clarke on marihuana, Lawson and alcohol, smoke nights etc)? Explain working class respectability. How do you explain the cl...
The following web links were compiled for Australian Cultural History 2004 by Mischa Barr. The links are divided into general research links and more specific areas derived from the seminar topics. ** History of Sport in Australia: P.L. Duffy Resource Ce...
In the early 1950s Grahame Harrison ran with the underground cabal of young iconoclasts, critical thinkers and bohemian spirits who called themselves 'The Push'. For the next decade, Harrison immersed himself in the life of Granada, a town, like most of ...
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