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Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come

Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come

By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their freedoms. To this day the authorities and even some of the AIs, relying on discredited sources, ...
Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.

Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.

By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era, marched on the nation’s capital. Instead of taking heed of the massive discontent their actions ...
Vale Johnny Allen

Vale Johnny Allen

Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of the seminal figures in our culture. Born John Kitchener Allen on June 10, 1943, in Glen Innes, New South ...

Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come

Convoy to Canberra. Two. From All the Lands We Come
By John Stapleton Four years ago the sedate public service infested Australian capital saw the largest protest gathering in its history. The public were well and truly over the draconian, and as it turns out entirely unnecessary, restrictions on their freedoms. To this day the authorities and even some of the AIs, relying on discredited sources, ...

Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.

Convoy to Canberra: One. A Time for All Time.
By John Stapleton Four years ago the Australian government was faced with the closest thing the country has ever seen to a genuine People’s Revolution, as hundreds of thousands of people, furious over the excessive authoritarianism of the Covid era, marched on the nation’s capital. Instead of taking heed of the massive discontent their actions ...

Vale Johnny Allen

Vale Johnny Allen
Interview by John Stapleton Johnny Allen was the motivating force behind some of the most exciting activity in Australia during the 1970s, from The Arts Factory to the Nimbin Festival to Cabaret Conspiracy. He will be remembered as one of the seminal figures in our culture. Born John Kitchener Allen on June 10, 1943, in Glen Innes, New South ...