Noel Counihan and the Brunswick free speech fight

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Peoples History of Brunswick

Explore the social and political history of Brunswick (Victoria, Australia) in the tumultuous years of the 1930s Depression via two audio tours by historians Melinda Barrie and Iain McIntyre.

Join historian and archivist Melinda Barrie as she takes you in the footsteps of Noel Counihan and the Brunswick free speech fight. From the theatres, factories and soap-boxes of Brunswick; to dissidents riding atop street-cars and locking themselves in cages to escape arrest. Brunswick was a place of mass mobilisation and dissent.

Tour developed by Melinda Barrie, produced by Teishan Ahearne with Moreland City Libraries.

1. Barkly St. Commune

Unemployed Single Mens Group (USMG) lived as a collective in tenements and terraces in Barkly Street, Brunswick. The USMG was established by the Communist Party of Australia.

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2. Lyric Theatre

199-207 Sydney Road Brunswick was first occupied by the Lyric Theatre and later the Brunswick Boxing Stadium. During the 1930s it was the headquarters for the Unemployed Workers Movement (UWM) and Friends of the Soviet Union (FOSU).

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3. Counihan Gallery

Counihan Gallery, named in honour of Noel Counihan. Located at the old Brunswick Town Hall.

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4. Mechanics Institute

Free Speech Memorial. Sculpture by Simon Perry to acknowledge the legacy of Noel Counihan in the Brunswick ‘free speech’ fight.

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5. Duke of Edinburgh Hotel

Duke of Edinburgh Hotel location of the cage used by Noel Counihan to conduct his ‘free speech’ address on 19 May 1933.

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6. Ballarat St.

Ballarat Street, Brunswick. Where ‘Shorty’ Patullo was chased and shot by police after creating a diversion on the roof of cable tram, giving Noel Counihan a chance to give his ‘free speech’ address to the Sydney Road crowd.

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