youth

Bus tour historic sites, 1996

1 January 1996

6 December 2010

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Bus tour of historic sites produced for a 1996 Marxism conference, highlights many sites of political activism in the 1960s and 1970s in Brisbane, including civil liberties demonstration, Regatta Hotel women chained to the bar, Tower Mill Springbok riot, and Black Friday. Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Foco produced a well illustrated and entertaining weekly newsletter to be distributed to its membership, carrying news on coming events, political and cultural matters as well as an interesting ass

Collection of the Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Foco stickers.The international New Left was well known for the broad range of its publications – from dense theoretical tracts to simple leaflets, badges and stickers.

Private Collection

Foco membership card. Foco was a membership based club – with membership granted only to those who paid a membership fee of around 70 cents.

Private Collection

University of Queensland Student Commemoration Day, 1962. The House of St Jean parade, George Street, Brisbane. Slide by Patrick Conaghan. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

People, by Eanruig Raibert, 1969

One time he came among us,

We the expresso folk,

Clad in his shroud of culture,

Pride, dignity his yoke.

He moved just like a self styled king,

Amongst his self style serfs,

Sounding his oxford Cambridge vowels,

And speaking toff nosed F’s.

His hairless face, stiff upper lip,

To us it seemed to say,

“How jolly good of me to come,

Thou I haven’t come to stay”.

A socialist is what I am,

I’ll have you all to know,

Just let me do my workers act,

19 February 1969

30 September 2010

Folk by John Manifold, 1969

They’ve opened a folk expresso bar,

And once for a sort of a joke,

I went to drink Folk expresso there,

And watch the expresso Folk.

The coffee was just the same old stuff,

As you get in the posh caffays,

But something about the customers,

Recalled by grandpa’s days.

They had flowing beards, and flowing manes,

Tho they looked a bit down at heels

And they sang in moody and sankey tunes,

Of their wonderfully high ideals.

The girls had hair like grandma wore,

Location

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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19 February 1969

30 September 2010

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

See map: Google Maps

Dangerous spaces – youth politics in Brisbane, 1960s-70s

‘Youth’ has plagued Queensland, and in particular the State capital Brisbane, for at least a century.