Glebe Radical Walking Tour
Radical Glebe Walking Tour
Thursday Jan 9, 2025 from 4.40-6pm
Leading the tour: Rachel Evans, Action for Public Housing, Socialist Alliance, Carolyn Ienna, First Nations activist and occupation organiser of their (former) public housing estate at 82 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe and Elizabeth Elenius is Convenor of Pyrmont Action Inc. and has a BA in Earth Sciences from Macquarie University.
Start: Resistance Bookshop, 22 Mountain St, Ultimo
Find out about the 1974 purchase by the Whitlam Government of Glebe’s church estates into public housing and conserve this historic suburb and keep it for low-income earners. See how the NSW government added additional public housing in the 1980s through beautifully designed low-rise infill and how today almost fifty years of good urban and social policy is threatened by sale and demolition. Find out about the successful fight to resist the sell off Franklin St, Glebe estate.
Thursday Jan 9, 2025 from 4.40-6pm
Leading the tour: Rachel Evans, Action for Public Housing, Socialist Alliance, Carolyn Ienna, First Nations activist and occupation organiser of their (former) public housing estate at 82 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe and Elizabeth Elenius is Convenor of Pyrmont Action Inc. and has a BA in Earth Sciences from Macquarie University.
Start: Resistance Bookshop, 22 Mountain St, Ultimo
Find out about the 1974 purchase by the Whitlam Government of Glebe’s church estates into public housing and conserve this historic suburb and keep it for low-income earners. See how the NSW government added additional public housing in the 1980s through beautifully designed low-rise infill and how today almost fifty years of good urban and social policy is threatened by sale and demolition. Find out about the successful fight to resist the sell off Franklin St, Glebe estate.
Location
Green Ban Park, Erskineville
Erskineville Road, Erskineville, Erskineville NSW
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