Noel Counihan and the Brunswick free speech fight

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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.


People's History of Brunswick
People's History of Brunswick
Wander the streets of radical Brunswick (Victoria, Australia) during the Great Depression. Join historian and archivist Melinda Barrie as she takes you in the footsteps of Noel Couhinhan and the free speech fight. From the theatres and soap-boxes of Brunswick; to activists riding atop street-cars and locking themselves in cages to escape arrest. Brunswick was a place of organising and dissent. Join historian and author Iain McIntyre as he takes you on a tour of unemployed workers organising and anti-eviction resistance during the Depression. From urban communes, to storming the Brunswick Town Hall, and defending working-class families from eviction.

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1. Barkly St. Commune

Unemployed Single Mens Group (USMG) lived as a collective in tenements and terraces in Barkly Street…

2. Lyric Theatre

199-207 Sydney Road Brunswick was first occupied by the Lyric Theatre and later the Brunswick Boxing…

3. Counihan Gallery

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

4. Mechanics Institute

Free Speech Memorial. Sculpture by Simon Perry to acknowledge the legacy of Noel Counihan in the Bru…

5. Duke of Edinburgh Hotel

Duke of Edinburgh Hotel location of the cage used by Noel Counihan to conduct his ‘free speech’ addr…

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