By Iain McIntyre. In 1994 members of the neo-nazi organisation National Action planned on holding a demonstration during a multicultural festival. Informed by the police that they would be arrested for their own safety they delayed their protest until the following week. Only able to mobilise 20 or so supporters from across the country the […]
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Phoenix Street, 1933 Free speech fight
By Iain McIntyre. Unemployed activists across Victoria were severely repressed by police and right-wing paramilitaries from the beginning of the Great Depression. The head of police General Thomas Blamey, who was also the leader of the quasi-fascist White Army, used the Political Squad to violently break up street meetings and protests. Forced out of speaking […]
Brunswick Boer War Memorial and honour roll
Researched and Written by Cheryl Griffin. ‘Our regiment has been completely capsized.’[i] With these words, Lieutenant Fred Stebbins of Brunswick summed up the disaster that befell the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles (5VMR) at Wilmansrust on the evening of 12 June 1901, a disaster that was to bring home the reality of the war in […]
Brunswick
Background The area that surveyor Robert Hoddle marked out, destined to be Brunswick, was determined by two straight lines (which later became Park Street and Moreland Road), drawn from Moonee Ponds to Merri Creek. Halfway between the creek a line north to south was marked which at first was known as Pentridge Road and was […]
Brunswick boer war memorial
Origins The impetus for a Boer War memorial in Brunswick was the death of Private Stanley John Barnard on 12 June, 1901. Barnard, a tram conductor in civilian life from North Brunswick, was killed in action at Wilmansrust while serving with the Fifth Victorian Mounted Rifles. In the months following Barnard’s death, the Brunswick Council […]