Jack Mundey was an Australian hero who saved Sydney from the bulldozers and shaped a generation of activists
Through his pioneering role in the green bans movement, the union leader made environmental concerns mainstream
Green Bans
Art and Journalism - Introducing EXTRA!EXTRA!
An introduction to my contributions to EXTRA!EXTRA! newspaper, which was part of the Art Gallery NSW exhibition, Making Art Public'.
Suburban Battlers who Changed the World
After visiting the site of the first Green Ban, Kelly's Bush, I wondered if it might be time for some new public art in that location.
Remembering Juanita Nielsen
In July 1975, Kings Cross anti-development campaigner Juanita Nielsen was disappeared. She was murdered as a result of her opposition to the development of Victoria Street. This post includes some shots of her newspaper and two others that were produced in protest against her disappearance.
Big Plans For NSW Development
A promised overhaul of NSW's planning framework has drawn the ire of resident and environment groups, whose contributions have been scrapped in favour of cosier relations with developers.