| Many in Australia still remember the
wild civil liberties struggles in Brisbane during the repressive
Bjelke-Petersen years of the 1960s and the 1970s. But how
many would know or even credit that Brisbane is peppered with
sites of social conflicts and incidents of radical activism
which date from long before the troubled time?
Mainstream historical
writing on Brisbane tends to present itself as a sleepy
and sunny metropolis - a hedonistic sort of place, where
nothing much of earth-shattering importance has ever happened
- law-abiding, passionless and essentially boring. Yet Brisbane
possesses a parallel history of largely hidden struggles,
radical mobilizations and utopian dreams. Radical Brisbane:
An Unruly History resurrects this story for the first
time. In its pages we visit well-known spots to uncover
- like enthusiasts on an archeological dig -
a
lost world of street battles,
passionate campaigns, fiery visionaries
and punitive repressions.
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