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True & there’s always an economic bottom line …
‘The workers agreed to end their work-in when management agreed to give them a 25% wage increase, the right to elect their foremen, four weeks annual leave and a large payment for their troubles.’ (Wikipedia)
First walked past the site in the late 50s on my way to school, and used to walk past the latter site daily on my way to an even crummier job. To complete the cycle, see all opera there I can these days when visiting Sydney.
Guessing too the rapid industrialisation and desecration of a never ceded large area of land up to Bennelong Point (Tubowghule) would have shocked traditional dispossessed Gadigal people of the Eora nation the most … just as same would have pleased white settlers, making themselves feel somewhat at home …
True & there’s always an economic bottom line …
‘The workers agreed to end their work-in when management agreed to give them a 25% wage increase, the right to elect their foremen, four weeks annual leave and a large payment for their troubles.’ (Wikipedia)
First walked past the site in the late 50s on my way to school, and used to walk past the latter site daily on my way to an even crummier job. To complete the cycle, see all opera there I can these days when visiting Sydney.
and there is too the dispossession of of a never returned sacred site …
an indigenous opera on the whole topic would be good – i’d love to see that
Guessing too the rapid industrialisation and desecration of a never ceded large area of land up to Bennelong Point (Tubowghule) would have shocked traditional dispossessed Gadigal people of the Eora nation the most … just as same would have pleased white settlers, making themselves feel somewhat at home …
Cahill Expressway
… a Celtic mother’s maiden tongue
carving through Tarpeian Way
languages taut primeval
syntax pulling cargo tight
… limeburning day starts its rumble
wagon wheel fenced-in kangaroo
escapees from figment history
faltering falling to Tubowghule
… adjunct subjunct interchange
all impact / no preposition
verbs flat to the tack: “fcknc’moooon”
compartmentalising material processes
… Governors’ cogs slammed
into overdrive standing Bennelong’s
ancient oyster shells
Up ……. {a3 = T2 k} ……. Right
in the mist