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The Push - Australia's Culture Portal

Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...

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Mortimer, Rex Alfred (1926 - 1979) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

MORTIMER, REX ALFRED (1926-1979), solicitor, communist and academic, was born on 11 February 1926 at Mordialloc, Melbourne, third of four children of Victorian-born parents Alfred Thomas Mortimer (d.1928), a horse-trainer who had served in the Australian ...

Anderson, John (1893 - 1962) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

ANDERSON, JOHN (1893-1962), philosopher, educator and controversialist, was born on 1 November 1893 at Stonehouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland, son of Alexander Anderson, schoolmaster, and his wife, Elizabeth, n. After attending Hamilton Academy, Anderson matri...

Andrade, David Alfred (1859 - 1928) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

ANDRADE, DAVID ALFRED (1859-1928), and WILLIAM CHARLES (1863-1939), anarchists and booksellers, were born at Collingwood, Victoria, sons of Abraham Da Costa Andrade, storekeeper, and his wife Maria, n. In May 1886, they helped to form the Melbourne Anarch...

Andrade, William Charles (Will) (1863 - 1939) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

ANDRADE, DAVID ALFRED (1859-1928), and WILLIAM CHARLES (1863-1939), anarchists and booksellers, were born at Collingwood, Victoria, sons of Abraham Da Costa Andrade, storekeeper, and his wife Maria, n. In May 1886, they helped to form the Melbourne Anarch...

Kaberry, Phyllis Mary (1910 - 1977) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (website Australian Dictionary of Biography )

> (A-Z) Kaawirn Kuunawarn [Hissing Swan] (c. KABERRY, PHYLLIS MARY (1910-1977), anthropologist, was born on 17 September 1910 at San Francisco, United States of America, eldest of three children of English-born parents Lewis Kaberry, architect, and his w...

The Push - Australia's Culture Portal   (website Culture Portal )

Brian Bird, Lincoln Coffee Lounge & Cafe, Rowe Street, Sydney, 1948-1951. There were many contradictions inside the Push: it was a movement born from forces within Sydney University during the 1950s, but it took an anti-intellectual stance. Anti-authori...

AAS Biographical Memoirs - Alexander Boden 1913­1993   (website Bright Sparcs )

Originally prepared for publication as part of Bright Sparcs by the Australian Science Archives Project. Alex Boden's education was at Willoughby Public School and North Sydney Boys High School. Following the publication, collaboratively, of two small bo...

John Tranter site - John Tranter reviews «Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push»   (website John Tranter )

Sex and Anarchy the life and death of the Sydney Push by Anne Coombs. They were the Sydney Push, a loose and changing group of bohemian intellectuals, university lecturers, adventurous secretaries, journalists, gamblers, writers, free-thinking businessme...

The Women's Pages: Australian Women Journalists Since 1850 - Lillian Roxon   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

More information about Lillian Roxon can be found in the AWAP register. Journalist, foreign correspondent and rock music expert Lillian Roxon enjoyed a long and varied career before her untimely death in New York at the age of 41. She was the first full-t...

Roxon, Lillian - Woman - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

Milliken, Robert, Lillian Roxon: Mother of Rock, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2002. Roxon, Lillian, Rock Encyclopedia, Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1969, 611 pp. Milliken, Robert, 'Roxon, Lillian (1932-1973)', in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, Austr...

Hiatt   (website Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) )

FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1997 BY Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, GPO Box 553, Canberra ACT 2601 The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and not necessarily those o...

Clubs and Societies - ARMS - The University of Sydney   (website University of Sydney Archives )

The Archives holds the records for selected affiliated clubs & societies. S35 Radio Club>Date range: 1924-1925>List available>>S93 Rhodes Scholarship NSW Selection Committee>Date range: 1904-1985>List available>Access: Material restricted without the exp...

Eagle-on-the-Hill - Elder Range   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Sources Express & Telegraph, 5 August 1864, page 2c, Register, 25 December 1874, page 6a, 27 January 1883 (supp.), 11 May 1893, page 6e, 4 August 1899, page 6c, 1 July 1904, page 5c, 25 March 1908, page 4g. Information on the cricket club is in the Expres...

Adelaide - Clubs, Societies and Associations   (website State Library of South Australia (SLSA) )

Information on the Adelaide Microscope Club is in the Register, 8 November 1875, page 6c, Chronicle, 13 November 1875, page 15f, Express, 27 September 1905, page 4f. Register, 14 March 1885, page 5e, 18 April 1885, page 5b, 14 May 1885, page 5c, Observer...

Australian Public Intellectual [API] Network   (website Australian Public Intellectual Network )

These organisations included the Australian Labor Party, the Labour Club, the National Union of Australian University Students, and the radical student publication, Honi Soit. 'Review: Radical Students: the Old Left at Sydney University by Alan Barcan' [...

The Hedonistic Modernity of Sydney in They're a Weird Mob   (website Senses of Cinema )

She is the co-author with Therese Davis of Australian Cinema After Mabo (Cambridge UP, 2004) and Chief Investigator with Sue Turnbull on the ARC Discovery Project, Australian Screen Comedy. In a departure from the critical tendency to equate Sydney with A...

AAS-Biographical memoirs-Boden   (website Australian Academy of Science )

Alex Boden's education was at Willoughby Public School and North Sydney Boys High School. Production shifted from organics to inorganics, particularly aluminium chloride and chlorhydrate, zinc chloride and zinc ammonium chloride, which became the heart o...

Papers of Harry Hastings Pearce - MS 2765   (website National Library of Australia (NLA) )

The collection comprises both personal papers of Harry Hastings Pearce and papers of mainly early twentieth century Australian literary figures collected by Pearce. Pearce's personal papers include family and general correspondence; diaries; family and b...

CAN - Collections Australia Network - Australian Freethought Heritage Library   (website Collections Australia Network (CAN) )

It covers 150 years of local Australian material, associated manuscripts and related records from overseas. It is a repository of privately-held material of the major secular, freethought groups that have operated throughout Australia over the past centu...