The Melbourne Riots by David A. Andrade is about Andrade leading protests for greater workers' rights. Andrade talks about the courageous socialist movement and his fight to protect against the gross abuses of wealthy establishments. Excerpt: "Harry, if you take my advice you'll not go to that meeting." "But I don't intend to take your advice, John. I know what I'm about. And I know that my presence will have an important effect in deciding the fate of those unfortunate wretches, who are almost driven mad with hunger and oppression."
My life of hell living in Melbourne, Australia during the Covid-19 pandemic and enduring the harshest lockdown restrictions in the world. My battle out the front of protest with the Police and subsequent arrests leading me to finally find a way out of the anti-lockdown movement.
The Melbourne Riots and how Harry Holdfast and his friends emancipated the workers is the 1892 novel by the famous anarchist political philosopher David Andrade. David Alfred Andrade (April 30, 1859 - May 23, 1928) was an Australian individualist and free market anarchist. In May 1886, David Andrade, his brother Will and half a dozen others formed the Melbourne Anarchist Club (MAC), the first anarchist organisation in Australia. Andrade became the MAC secretary and one of its main propagandists. The MAC produced the journal Honesty, an Australian organ of anarchism which had substantially the same principles as those championed by Benjamin Tucker's Liberty. In a news agency at Brunswick, now an inner suburb of Melbourne, and later in Liberty Hall, Russell St. Melbourne the brothers operated the first anarchist book shops in Australia. Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Dr Kevin Baker takes a clear-headed and historical look at civil and military unrest in Australasia from the earliest times of European colonisation to the riots at Cronulla in 2005 whose intensity and aftermath took Australia by surprise. In the process he examines many insurrections, the best know of which and most notorious -- the Rum Rebellion, Vinegar Hill, Eureka -- took place in the nineteenth century and relates them to an ongoing, but diminishing number of not just tilts at authority, but direct challenges to it. These include goldfield disturbances, the Melbourne police strike, prison and detention centre riots, the New Zealand naval mutiny of 1947, a number of naval and military attempts to challenge and buck authority, and attempted political assassinations. Many of these incidents -- of various degrees of seriousness -- are less well known than they deserve to be. Baker also takes the reader through a careful examination of the key terms -- sedition, riot, mutiny -- which are examined in legal terms and in relation to larger ethical issues and ongoing debates that can be traced back to the beginnings of Western civilization. But while sedition has been very much in the news recently, Baker argues that Australians and New Zealanders have in fact lost a lot of the rebellious and sometimes openly larrikin spirit that was more common in the nation-building years. And in his concluding chapter he canvasses a number of possible explanations for this.
"Harry, if you take my advice you'll not go to that meeting.""But I don't intend to take your advice, John. I know what I'm about. And I know that my presence will have an important effect in deciding the fate of those unfortunate wretches, who are almost driven mad with hunger and oppression. What with those crafty capitalistic wire-pullers aggravating them to deeds of rashness and riot on the one side, and the equally unprincipled tactics and dangerous utterances of those favour-seeking demagogues on the other, they are in the greatest danger that they could possibly be. They might as well be at the mercy of wild beasts in a jungle. I have strong misgivings that some serious calamity will befall them to-night.""A very good reason why you should stay at home, instead of getting into trouble over other people."But Harry Holdfast was determined. No argument or appeal could possibly affect him--unless, indeed, to intensify his determination--and without taking any notice of his brother's retort, he immediately left the house, and made his way to town where the "monster indignation labor meeting" was advertised to be held.Harry was a popular character amongst the working people of Melbourne, because he was not only an eloquent labor agitator, hut he had a happy method of putting himself on friendly terms with his hearers by appealing to the better natures of friend and foe alike. Of course, he had his enemies, as every one has had who has tried to make the world better than he found it; but they were not many, and he gave them little opportunity of pointing the finger of slander against him, the worst that they could say of him being that he was an "agitator." But as he was proud of the title, that did not trouble him.
How can we use art to reconstruct ourselves and the material world? Is every individual an art object? Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Whether in the form of warfare, dispossession, forced migration, or social prejudice, Australia’s sense of nationhood was born from—and continues to be defined by—experiences of violence. Legacies of Violence probes this brutal legacy through case studies that range from the colonial frontier to modern domestic spaces, exploring themes of empathy, isolation, and Australians’ imagined place in the world. Moving beyond the primacy that is typically accorded white accounts of violence, contributors place particular emphasis on the experiences of those perceived to be on the social periphery, repositioning them at the center of Australia’s relationship to global events and debates.
Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in the twentieth century, the island continent is home to people from all over the globe. Each new wave of settlers has had a profound impact on Australian society and culture. The Australian People documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people. It is one of the largest reference works of its kind, with approximately 250 expert contributors and almost one million words. Illustrated in colour and black and white, the book is both a comprehensive encyclopedia and a survey of the controversial debates about citizenship and multiculturalism now that Australia has attained the centenary of its federation.
Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. Australia as the Antipodal Utopia evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visions of Australia evolved from antiquity to the modern period. It argues that because of its antipodal relationship with Europe, Australia is imagined as a particular form of utopia – but since one person’s utopia is, more often than not, another’s dystopia, Australia’s utopian quality is both complex and highly ambiguous. Drawing on the rich field of utopian studies, Australia as the Antipodal Utopia provides an original and insightful study of Australia’s place in the Western imagination.
