tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61338826489994529352024-03-12T18:30:04.194-07:00radical film and photographyactivist media from Bernadette SmithUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-76945458238279901232014-12-14T17:08:00.000-08:002014-12-14T17:19:32.846-08:00Newcastle Rail Protest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-35923457918830879302014-11-08T07:30:00.000-08:002014-11-10T21:30:43.958-08:00Blockade of AGL coal seam gas well in Gloucester <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-35304649937353530252014-08-31T19:20:00.000-07:002014-09-02T19:20:32.951-07:00Sydney's March in August<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-61806814331627397552014-05-18T19:49:00.000-07:002014-05-19T20:49:56.151-07:00March in May Rally against Austerity Budget ends in ArrestsSydney's March in May rally and march against the Abbott government's budget cuts to health, education and welfare ended with a sit-down protest blocking George Street and several arrests.<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Police arrest protestors at the student sit-in on George Street. A woman waits with a sign saying "We're Westie scum so fuckn what"</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-9897190519149115982014-03-16T18:28:00.003-07:002014-03-17T17:29:11.872-07:00March in March, Sydney<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thousands rallied in Belmore Park below then marched along George Street to protest the Abbott governments policies on public services, human rights and the environment.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-91538077056050449542013-12-01T18:40:00.000-08:002013-12-02T18:42:14.424-08:00Sydney Rallies Against New Bikie Laws <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A rally was held at 11 am outside parliament house in Sydney to protest new anti Biker laws that enable a motorcycle club to be outlawed if three members are convicted of an offence.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-82615672163346346342011-11-19T23:23:00.000-08:002014-11-29T16:46:02.332-08:0019th November 2011 Occupy Sydney's Anti-Corporate Greed Tour<div style="text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-8351525973587122172011-11-15T20:25:00.001-08:002013-07-16T22:44:07.978-07:00Courtroom Drama for Save Our Figs Legal Team<div style="text-align: left;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wotHNIeXdgjG-19rsfCCNvtNhpKk2MEFvI66ygkWs5m54pPUJgbIavSyz3A4LPWAcH_hyLXXbNB_K0qQtRNGkKLTULGTA2clKATi9Doj9_6-FGNxSZ1P-CuiUj_gaHrunIlqmXW_Wow/s1600/Court-suspense.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675445418279182674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wotHNIeXdgjG-19rsfCCNvtNhpKk2MEFvI66ygkWs5m54pPUJgbIavSyz3A4LPWAcH_hyLXXbNB_K0qQtRNGkKLTULGTA2clKATi9Doj9_6-FGNxSZ1P-CuiUj_gaHrunIlqmXW_Wow/s640/Court-suspense.jpg" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Outside the Land and Environment Court this week tension mounts as Save Our Figs Inc fight to continue their injunction preventing Newcastle council from destroying Laman Street figs. The judgement ruled:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">In a democracy, the Court should be slow to countenance refusing interlocutory relief to which an applicant is otherwise entitled because it engaged in peaceful protest in a context where a respondent arguably was behaving unlawfully in its administrative decision - making.</span> (Full decision<a href="http://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/action/PJUDG?jgmtid=155623"> here)</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>More at <a href="http://savethebogeyhole.blogspot.com/">http://savethebogeyhole.blogspot.com/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-92037202366332948532011-11-15T19:38:00.000-08:002011-11-15T20:14:40.121-08:00At the No Coal Seam Gas Stall at Newtown Festival Last Sunday<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPfyIC0DTxdJTTXV6JX-NCABAMhTRZUrrLwlM3WTfMvNLKJHvk9uPhPKYLTpv28HtM2_z35COxcqimt-KgcHhvQyPkENrHek1oSKOoerHPDyiiOMPzY2I_cQvvc8VjsF7VVCOY_baQ-bg/s1600/No-CSG-stall.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPfyIC0DTxdJTTXV6JX-NCABAMhTRZUrrLwlM3WTfMvNLKJHvk9uPhPKYLTpv28HtM2_z35COxcqimt-KgcHhvQyPkENrHek1oSKOoerHPDyiiOMPzY2I_cQvvc8VjsF7VVCOY_baQ-bg/s400/No-CSG-stall.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5675433319806197266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="messageBody" ft="{"type":3}">A busy day getting petition signatures and educating the public at the no gas mining stall at Newtown Festival on the weekend.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-50348350538588087662011-11-03T16:40:00.003-07:002012-07-12T01:46:45.507-07:00Occupy Newcastle!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ebTLx_CDQWagodEoNnGdCU5feBn4epPkvyJDxSdvztzMkxXjF9rAMZR8CtrfWB29wAfGyWNC33TbeX8xY3kBw-K-PXRZGRzdspMswF4ZHYObGqqieRURqn-e7TYdriTBgKzJ4NXB-PE/s1600/Laman-Fig-Guardians.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7ebTLx_CDQWagodEoNnGdCU5feBn4epPkvyJDxSdvztzMkxXjF9rAMZR8CtrfWB29wAfGyWNC33TbeX8xY3kBw-K-PXRZGRzdspMswF4ZHYObGqqieRURqn-e7TYdriTBgKzJ4NXB-PE/s400/Laman-Fig-Guardians.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670934094525541602" border="0" /></a><br /><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOTExfKeqnBM0LkxdTAj2DgGjY_E9r6aKI-U4LscTC5tk65fZQj8Rd0xH6TzQWHQkyRaotlsxenAqhZLJhcNZrnWvc5WNcmpIT4uSSOmerRHb9yJNrRB2L3HBdi4fefcGs0TtVfOMsCdE/s400/Laman-Street-Pilgrimage.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670925838476871986" border="0" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-weight: bold; "><span itemprop="name"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/bernadette2win/calendars/7989698-occupy-newcastle-saving-laman-street-figs">Occupy Newcastle - Saving Laman Street Figs</a></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/bernadette2win/calendars/7989698-occupy-newcastle-saving-laman-street-figs"> Calendar</a></span> </span></span>A year of struggle in documentary photographs showing part of Newcastle community’s heroic efforts to save our figs. More photos here <a href="http://saveourfigsphotos.blogspot.com.au/">http://saveourfigsphotos.blogspot.com.au/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-59109339224974533402011-10-23T18:43:00.000-07:002011-10-23T19:03:43.581-07:00What if Australia was under new management?<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgi0hnRecg3LDFRCLcfJDqENgpO98eXwqYE17UbTOtrUyqWWyiYBEuGU8bp6znObGXeNx4d7iFvy-4Wg4m2cQ3g8ZPvpkADVvvsHyJAimbWO3qFNosu3zJXn6Rf9D-I5cYIxJmxXR_y0s/s1600/You-take-your-orders-from-m.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgi0hnRecg3LDFRCLcfJDqENgpO98eXwqYE17UbTOtrUyqWWyiYBEuGU8bp6znObGXeNx4d7iFvy-4Wg4m2cQ3g8ZPvpkADVvvsHyJAimbWO3qFNosu3zJXn6Rf9D-I5cYIxJmxXR_y0s/s400/You-take-your-orders-from-m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666868796247896434" border="0" /></a>You take your orders from <span style="font-weight: bold;">me</span> now!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Follow on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/225599444163983/236721619718432/?notif_t=group_activity">http://www.facebook.com/groups/225599444163983/236721619718432/?notif_t=group_activity</a><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-14425736134779913942011-10-17T22:53:00.001-07:002011-10-17T22:59:15.347-07:00Lock the Gate<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2j7oRNZS-QDVc6dKW-eOinaKPT7jVMTc7xpP6LtNULuj1Bs2pOM-ungkI0iUGajeZwKrSVQyy5Sy8gD20084Ti4EEbMQV320oF7GDHYtYd0AGtvDRni73G9MptFwY0mmoxTr-xHNCvg/s1600/Lock-the-Gate.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2j7oRNZS-QDVc6dKW-eOinaKPT7jVMTc7xpP6LtNULuj1Bs2pOM-ungkI0iUGajeZwKrSVQyy5Sy8gD20084Ti4EEbMQV320oF7GDHYtYd0AGtvDRni73G9MptFwY0mmoxTr-xHNCvg/s400/Lock-the-Gate.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664706486070111266" border="0" /></a>Anti Coal Seam Gas mining protest in Martin Place, Sydney CBD last Sunday<br /><div style="text-align: center;">More photos at <a href="http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/10/lock-gate-anti-csg-mining-in-martin.html">http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/10/lock-gate-anti-csg-mining-in-martin.html</a><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-6950783103465050372011-10-16T21:14:00.000-07:002011-10-18T19:52:37.852-07:00Occupy Protest in Sydney<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUCukBt8ki0LU2NmYP131X_4xlC-CTSNo-2mBBQcKYKqSCiNuljFd-WxlInr-jjAwonR2lUMm0jmqqJpwMuNiUx3RFnMT_ugEKjYClM5ABfLpUmmPL3zpAILdB6GM4wB5uereM8q4CxI/s1600/child%2527s-play.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicUCukBt8ki0LU2NmYP131X_4xlC-CTSNo-2mBBQcKYKqSCiNuljFd-WxlInr-jjAwonR2lUMm0jmqqJpwMuNiUx3RFnMT_ugEKjYClM5ABfLpUmmPL3zpAILdB6GM4wB5uereM8q4CxI/s400/child%2527s-play.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664719896036042690" border="0" /></a>Child's play in Martin Place<br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRT8F_7lLHB3EgIt_XbJXAzQOmgMmET3lAn0V0eyjM5lzHF8a7-j473oq-kd6PwRDqvHU9x8anSpSPS9WIDLdPk28FlFIbQsR7dSF55Cg_WeSmXitDwMda2W6k3_nIVz3sM5hkEk7hx_0/s1600/Is+that+a+stun+gun.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRT8F_7lLHB3EgIt_XbJXAzQOmgMmET3lAn0V0eyjM5lzHF8a7-j473oq-kd6PwRDqvHU9x8anSpSPS9WIDLdPk28FlFIbQsR7dSF55Cg_WeSmXitDwMda2W6k3_nIVz3sM5hkEk7hx_0/s400/Is+that+a+stun+gun.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664309863571894498" border="0" /></a>Is that a stun gun in your pocket - or are you pleased to see me?<br /><br />More photos at <a href="http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-rally-in-martin-place.html">http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-rally-in-martin-place.html</a> or follow on<a href="http://www.occupysydney.org.au/"> http://www.occupysydney.org.au/</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-73151983066064845802011-09-29T19:32:00.000-07:002011-09-29T20:14:34.848-07:00Radical Sydney<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9HLbZ5hjVU5URVEIyLxyUTz4HjK1x7jH8hyphenhyphenc6d4ae5yjzNnIxYBD2zxSutnG5W7UeoPJzPpH7tVUpPub-GocLv-z1xaS4PYDtyA_PVEykhNV1pVuPUbVH4YYBwWn7rCuJXHxoGle22M/s1600/Up-in-Arms2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ9HLbZ5hjVU5URVEIyLxyUTz4HjK1x7jH8hyphenhyphenc6d4ae5yjzNnIxYBD2zxSutnG5W7UeoPJzPpH7tVUpPub-GocLv-z1xaS4PYDtyA_PVEykhNV1pVuPUbVH4YYBwWn7rCuJXHxoGle22M/s400/Up-in-Arms2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657975266471306658" border="0" /></a>Anti coal seam gas mining protesters disrupt The Renovators TV show auction in Sydney, 27th September 2011. When asked by the auctioneer if they were making a bid one said " yeah I'm making a bid to stop coal seam gas mining in Sydney!" More at <a href="http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/09/pop-up-protest-at-renovators-tv-show.html">http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/2011/09/pop-up-protest-at-renovators-tv-show.html</a> or follow on facebook at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/nocsginsydney">http://www.facebook.com/groups/nocsginsydney</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-24791151066118205032011-01-13T15:47:00.000-08:002011-09-29T21:12:24.266-07:00Radical Newcastle<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoZIETXa_FdMhbjbpor6_1sVfxOgSAL0m9R6hzjh-vDnWcimpu_F_RB6Aj3rAzHpysIUoMcnpld7eQbUTnDjkP_Roxj0TtpdRM58A1v9Cy1qzXPwSmo76PM4dCmXc7JJschi6O2x1HR7U/s1600/Harbour+Coal+Blockade+2010.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoZIETXa_FdMhbjbpor6_1sVfxOgSAL0m9R6hzjh-vDnWcimpu_F_RB6Aj3rAzHpysIUoMcnpld7eQbUTnDjkP_Roxj0TtpdRM58A1v9Cy1qzXPwSmo76PM4dCmXc7JJschi6O2x1HR7U/s400/Harbour+Coal+Blockade+2010.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561911837095513154" border="0" /></a><a href="http://indymedia.org.au/2010/03/28/climate-protest-fleet-attempts-blockade-of-newcastle-coal-port">2010 </a><a href="http://indymedia.org.au/2010/03/28/climate-protest-fleet-attempts-blockade-of-newcastle-coal-port">Blockade</a> of Newcastle Harbour by climate activists<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LeMicsQdOHibxYB9FE2PQ-ohiv7WEF9gxFuy6a60mu3GYzueupbTX3j2nAn3BsgAkF32M2lhygwNZ3aJ0eeNbelQN9g_lAtmy6NOHDhgP2Kpav1ACjyBiif6i0_k2TVwTOKtF0vH-fg/s1600/Thin-line.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_LeMicsQdOHibxYB9FE2PQ-ohiv7WEF9gxFuy6a60mu3GYzueupbTX3j2nAn3BsgAkF32M2lhygwNZ3aJ0eeNbelQN9g_lAtmy6NOHDhgP2Kpav1ACjyBiif6i0_k2TVwTOKtF0vH-fg/s400/Thin-line.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657998771042848514" border="0" /></a>2009 Blockade of coal trains in Carrington, Newcastle<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYQt0-wZ8vrYSGOeK0JKcsPgl2Sk9j8x9_XjOe11JTCK7sqfEiYHLVLxRZb-v01WgQnTLmfcwO93Nn-5R2nqWv7MyUuzheGAMGZtxrT9rUBsaMnT0aRIDXJRKHCU_GdOw8j8uEqGNl5o/s1600/Power+Play.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKYQt0-wZ8vrYSGOeK0JKcsPgl2Sk9j8x9_XjOe11JTCK7sqfEiYHLVLxRZb-v01WgQnTLmfcwO93Nn-5R2nqWv7MyUuzheGAMGZtxrT9rUBsaMnT0aRIDXJRKHCU_GdOw8j8uEqGNl5o/s400/Power+Play.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561836495447515746" border="0" /></a>Hanging on to <a href="http://www.usu.org.au/email_power_mp.html">Power</a> - unions protest electricity privatisation<br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3uInh0RMExJ4GbI02T_n3kx0bLZoVaRvkcmezAXEwziUcwJHzWdiP55m0EpjkwBTkNgSrXAJycUq24Lc2bcpNqMWhkZa2bAwOgZfTaJzJp8IJbZGbX4K6Z4SN1vaqSPLh8arBdhY6K-M/s1600/Save+Our+Rail.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3uInh0RMExJ4GbI02T_n3kx0bLZoVaRvkcmezAXEwziUcwJHzWdiP55m0EpjkwBTkNgSrXAJycUq24Lc2bcpNqMWhkZa2bAwOgZfTaJzJp8IJbZGbX4K6Z4SN1vaqSPLh8arBdhY6K-M/s400/Save+Our+Rail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561825940237454146" border="0" /></a> Fellow <a href="http://saveourrail.org.au/articles/index.html">Travellers</a> - saving public transport and the rail line<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49PCW-VVcmVV7UEmMdvZtzX4c8Mi1hTI463mL8yTOMn-tgLLFfDyKjOG2BifgaR9oQBAXg0ikY9J8ppFRicZNnFUvu74SeMYqGcoIeoPfW77_3qMhwRJYH3qVTD57fgZcPTfKKVNTnso/s1600/Crisis+on+King+Street.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh49PCW-VVcmVV7UEmMdvZtzX4c8Mi1hTI463mL8yTOMn-tgLLFfDyKjOG2BifgaR9oQBAXg0ikY9J8ppFRicZNnFUvu74SeMYqGcoIeoPfW77_3qMhwRJYH3qVTD57fgZcPTfKKVNTnso/s400/Crisis+on+King+Street.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5561824685047811490" border="0" /></a>Crisis on King Street<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4k8VDR5Zi-EPeQwa-JTM_1UUldswAvB1HzW2goXCWhMAAKkrDw73Tb2u4kFC5NqOZRSyCDLRWeOOywawM0cnLKdFvkZsU3TifNPmBtkHLRASgvDZdUz3mynvLtkttCigQGW-7bewfJ_c/s1600/webMiddle-Aged-and-Unwaged.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4k8VDR5Zi-EPeQwa-JTM_1UUldswAvB1HzW2goXCWhMAAKkrDw73Tb2u4kFC5NqOZRSyCDLRWeOOywawM0cnLKdFvkZsU3TifNPmBtkHLRASgvDZdUz3mynvLtkttCigQGW-7bewfJ_c/s400/webMiddle-Aged-and-Unwaged.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5565170830211103554" border="0" /></a>No <a href="http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/">Vacancies</a> - outside Newcastle Community Art Centre<br /><br />see more photos <a href="http://australiandocumentaryphotos.blogspot.com/">here</a><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6133882648999452935.post-55060693519327240672010-12-18T17:40:00.000-08:002011-06-29T16:58:36.490-07:00The Star Hotel Riot 30 Years On<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:180%;">by Bernadette Smith<br /><br /></span></span><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face { font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; }@font-face { font-family: "MS Mincho"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoCaption, li.MsoCaption, div.MsoCaption { margin: 6pt 0cm; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: italic; }p.MsoList, li.MsoList, div.MsoList { margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText { margin: 0cm 0cm 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }span.Absatz-Standardschriftart { }p.Heading, li.Heading, div.Heading { margin: 12pt 0cm 6pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial; }p.Index, li.Index, div.Index { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Sect</style><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:130%;" >One aspect of my work as a local artist in Newcastle has been to photograph the ordinary things that I find in the streets of our town. I have tried over the decades to look at the social context of protest and <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiS5WeR_t11vzYU9A9f5ymhz2CLmm4fjkjwxTb3AcrdJ4FXl-a7EMbxmOv25jcXyqWrVJya8POeEi215bS-I48vL7yeWF9SaIoKvxg2su3NwNn4uTdBV3Ji8DCRG2qWNbbVP01IZCM7ZE/s1600/Car+Culture+on+Newcastle+Foreshore.jpg">youth subculture</a> as it is happening. I've also documented many trade union and environmental protests in the region as well as <a href="http://storyofbernadette.blogspot.com/">unemployment</a> and its effects for over two decades.<br /><br /></span> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p style="font-family: trebuchet ms;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I see my role as bearing witness to another side of Newcastle - one that is absent from the tourist guides and official histories. These include the iconic faded glory of Hunter Street, the colourful <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqZk7nAtjJQ0B-8gOwyU0NCzOQ2N8zmmqVs1JWddRXWxz-Qad-2mzdQBRhOxDISQSzn8FX5BVBgF1MmkdXc_AJKMDhIg_x_xtbpOumQgmlNmNGb7nCYHFaMvV7h-7D9aoC1wMrOt2Xv6s/s1600/eOn+the+Road.jpg">car culture</a> found along the foreshore, the endangered Newcastle skate park, and the communal areas of our coast line which are all local public spaces under threat from <a href="http://savethebogeyhole.blogspot.com/">privatisation</a>. This impetus to tidy up the rough edges of our town and airbrush from view those living on the margins has suppressed the hidden history of dispossession and <a href="http://www.art-3000.com/picture/?iid=8733&g=6">dissent</a> of the working-class. I look back on these social documentary photos of Newcastle with the passing of 30</span><sup style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">th</sup><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> anniversary of the Star Hotel riot. In my youth I took photos on the night of the Star riot and in the weeks leading up to it.<br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87EFcEtkjhyphenhyphenURL0Xcf05C3SDRzBoXvFIqLq5Nu98eax39N0QBwcWQHHava2ES3zUnefiLNOHnixkUNy-SGVvDpot4vbiny1f31mreUalYfARcvf4GxGwEgKhM2oqLwKMXMgLcDLHfd14/s1600/Day-of-the-Star-Riot.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg87EFcEtkjhyphenhyphenURL0Xcf05C3SDRzBoXvFIqLq5Nu98eax39N0QBwcWQHHava2ES3zUnefiLNOHnixkUNy-SGVvDpot4vbiny1f31mreUalYfARcvf4GxGwEgKhM2oqLwKMXMgLcDLHfd14/s400/Day-of-the-Star-Riot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579787807604972418" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">Day of the Star Riot</span><br /></div><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">On September 19th 1979, 2 police cars were burnt during a riot involving 10,000 people (including onlookers) at the Star Hotel in Newcastle. About 40 local police without any riot gear attempted to control the crowd. There were no serious injuries. The Newcastle mayor Joy Cummings during the subsequent trials begged for clemency citing the frustrations of high unemployment and poverty as extenuating factors for those accused.</span></p><p style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Recently our youth fought to save <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/smithrankenart/art/1492013-3-endangered-species-by-bernadette-smith-c">Newcastle Beach skate park</a> and grafitti wall. We've gone from “Save the Star” to “Save our skate park”: plus ca change. In 2009, with Geraldine Bobsien, I co-curated the <a href="http://www.thelockup.info/the-star/">Star exhibition</a> at the Lock-Up Museum in Newcastle. In this </span><span style="font-size:130%;">30th Anniversary commemorative show</span><span style="font-size:130%;"> I wanted to reveal the Star Hotel in its heyday and demise and re-present a legacy of <a href="http://www.redbubble.com/people/smithrankenart/art/1687633-3-save-the-star-1979-by-bernadette-smith-c"> lower socio-economic culture</a>, diversity and resistance. There are institutional constraints which prevent one from fully articulating this radical perspective and reclaiming our town's past. Must history always repeat "...first time as tragedy then as farce"</span><span style="font-size:130%;">?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;" face="trebuchet ms"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2lPmQTEaLZLfILOaEKXSL2-RiHfxfI1Wt2xFA9eXjD_lJ1gU-d2BkGx3MytNreqlvWGQ1YP_KFPDPsUPXj469SdRlGm4WIJhpxd45Qo5HLlBt0bPFfd2LOoEFCzUkywTWI2n-oEUOn0/s1600/web-Star.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2lPmQTEaLZLfILOaEKXSL2-RiHfxfI1Wt2xFA9eXjD_lJ1gU-d2BkGx3MytNreqlvWGQ1YP_KFPDPsUPXj469SdRlGm4WIJhpxd45Qo5HLlBt0bPFfd2LOoEFCzUkywTWI2n-oEUOn0/s400/web-Star.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621251292335713186" border="0" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;font-family:arial;"><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Below: 1979 University of </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Newcastle </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Student Representative Council president Greg Holding with a copy of that year's September/November Opus newspaper featuring the </span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >the Star riot</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" > article which I authored. This issue shown above has now been added to the university's archive.</span></p><p style="font-family: arial; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVv4fMu1EFejyx3TEnD81t2kUKKMdYpBDvawyvm3ytgC2yqPV8Z_u1FTRd4BSKc457rSCPVFIvqB3KrD4HvE1tiqFdWfbBoxIqob6M5SnnQpWUnrGEtayRnDcZgUMEf-3YDzlSsFg5f0s/s1600/webSRC-president-in-1979.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 341px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVv4fMu1EFejyx3TEnD81t2kUKKMdYpBDvawyvm3ytgC2yqPV8Z_u1FTRd4BSKc457rSCPVFIvqB3KrD4HvE1tiqFdWfbBoxIqob6M5SnnQpWUnrGEtayRnDcZgUMEf-3YDzlSsFg5f0s/s400/webSRC-president-in-1979.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552216184231393746" border="0" /></a></p><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"></span><p style="text-align: left; font-weight: bold;" class="MsoNormal"><br /><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"></span></p><h1 style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">NEWCASTLE CALLING</span></h1><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">In the late 1970’s the Clash released ‘London Calling’ a song that was a call to arms for anyone who dreamt of changing the world.<span style=""> </span>Much like Dylan’s “The Times they are a-Changing” we who lived through this period perceived a need to challenge the powers of repression that propelled all of us to uncertain presents & dystopic futures. On 19<sup>th</sup> September 1979 Newcastle went calling, the Star Riot let the world know their was unrest in the colonies & the antipodean young where prepared to challenge any & all authority.<span style=""> </span>The police were not amused especially when the rioters burnt their cars & paddy-wagons as well as driving the them from the streets, at least for a short while.<span style=""> </span>The riot was not a victory yet things were defiantly different after this, a political message resonated & history changed. Despite the media joined by the local luminaries who could jump on the bandwagon condemning the rioters you could tell…they where sweating.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicjo5P2wvm66xVn5onAtIjyBPJHKLSZvMoguSx3kgOEHrFP0mzsnvRffS2PRNA67Usc2EJ5i7hf39KDWjLfaDitbK1-dx7pZxgrkiZh9y1Ck9IPbdi5y2x0NEghn07EyOBMbqKE7fpFoM/s1600/webBurnt-Out-Paddy-Van.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 297px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicjo5P2wvm66xVn5onAtIjyBPJHKLSZvMoguSx3kgOEHrFP0mzsnvRffS2PRNA67Usc2EJ5i7hf39KDWjLfaDitbK1-dx7pZxgrkiZh9y1Ck9IPbdi5y2x0NEghn07EyOBMbqKE7fpFoM/s400/webBurnt-Out-Paddy-Van.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5552205703195558098" border="0" /></a></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">I wasn’t there that night I’m not a Newcastle boy though the northern beaches of Sydney are just a southerly extension of the same geo-culture.<span style=""> </span>But while this white boy son of the bourgeoisie watched the riot on TV, my partner Bernadette was there the night of the riot and her grainy, stark, black & white photos reveal a before and after of tense drinkers in the infamous back bar, burnt paddy wagons & shocked police after the event.<span style=""> </span>A situationists dream Debord would have thought, a little bit of burning Paris in 1967 transported momentarily to the antipodes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">And this is the point, this event was not an isolated one, Australia does not have a quiet history, blood has stained the wattle & its not all defeats either. Who remembers Darwin where twice workers uprisings forced out the government men onto waiting navy ships & as recently as the eighties a pitched battle occurred between police, politicians & workers on the steps of the old legislative assembly.<span style=""> </span>For a while the workers won & changed history but its suppressed, a secret history of resistance & struggle that can produce victories the greatest of which is to remain standing.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoBodyText">Greil Marcus in his ‘Lipstick Traces A Secret history of the Twentieth Century’ charts the roller coaster progressions of dissent & direct action across the cultural, social & political spheres.<span style=""> </span>From Café Voltaire to the Situationists to S11 and Punk anarchy it’s been in the air we breathe of the last two centuries.<span style=""> </span>Direct action, Spanish Civil war popular fronts name it what you will, resistance & what Debord called ‘constructed situations’ of disruptive possibility that change histories & challenge the thin skins of reality are still around us even in today’s dreary materiality, 9/11 showed us that reality.<span style=""> </span>Raoul Vaneigem in his book of dreams and strategies of occupation says that ’daydreaming subverts the world’.<span style=""> </span>So did the Star, just for a moment acting as history’s hinge & it was Newcastle calling.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica;"> </span></p> <span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /></span><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal">From guest writer </p><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"></span></span><p style="text-align: left;" class="MsoNormal"><style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }h1 { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }h2 { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; page-break-after: avoid; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times; }p.MsoBodyText, li.MsoBodyText, div.MsoBodyText { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Helvetica; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style><span style="font-family:Helvetica;">Dr MARK ELLIOT-RANKEN</span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0