E48: The green bans, part 2

Working Class History

Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 8 December 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Concluding part of our double podcast episode about green bans by building workers in Australia from 1970 to 1975 which held up billions of dollars of development which would have been harmful to the environment, or working class and Aboriginal communities.
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In these episodes we speak with Dave Kerin, a former builders labourer and member of the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) and current member of the Earthworker Collective, and Dr Meredith Burgmann, who was an active supporter of the green bans, co-authored Green Bans, Red Union: the Saving of a City with her sister Verity Burgmann, and was later a Labor member of parliament.
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More information, transcripts and full show notes here on our website: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/10/30/e47-48-green-bans/

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1:00.0	in the 1970s. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, I'd go back and listen to that first.
1:18.9	To begin with today, Meredith Bergman, co-author of Green Band's Red Union, gives a quick rundown of some of the different types of green bands which Builders' Labor is implemented
1:22.4	between 1970 and 1974.
1:25.5	There were a number of different green bands.
1:28.3	There were green bands on natural bush, like in Kelly's Bush.
1:35.3	There were green bands to save parkland and of course the best known of that is the green
1:41.3	ban on Centennial Park, which is still our huge iconic park right in the middle of Sydney.
1:51.0	It was going to be, the green area was going to be turned into a huge sporting complex with no area left for passive recreation.
2:05.0	And it was that green band, the Centennial Park Green Band, that got the huge support of Patrick White,
2:11.8	Australia's only Nobel Prize winner for literature.
2:15.6	And to see the very austere figure of Patrick White marching in demonstrations
2:23.0	in support of the builder's labourers was always a delight.
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