Conflict: how people contest the landscape

Conflict is fundamental in shaping the Queensland landscape.

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Trades & Labor Council advertisement, 1967

Trades & Labor Council advertisement, 1967. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Black Panther Party, Brisbane, Manifesto 1972

Black Panther Party, Brisbane, Manifesto 1972. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

They have made our rights wrong, Mapoon

Mapoon, QLD
Australia
11° 21' 52.9848" S, 142° 20' 45.8016" E
See map: Google Maps
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Location

Mapoon, QLD
Australia
11° 21' 52.9848" S, 142° 20' 45.8016" E
See map: Google Maps
6 December 2010

Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

The 1967 Referendum – the State comes together?

They have made our rights wrongs.Protest leaflet, Mapoon, pre-1967. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Civil Liberties rally march route, Brisbane, 1968

1 January 1968
6 December 2010
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Changing landscape of radicalism

Civil Liberties rally march route, Brisbane, 1968. This map captures the divisions between old and new left within a purely spatial context. While Brisbane’s New Left required a large map of the city outlining a precise march route, no such map is extant from North Queensland’s strike waves, due simply to the fact that these struggles were highly localised affairs in small towns, often based around only a few streets. Organisation however appears as vital in both instances, with the almost comical march starting time of 12:37 indicating a high degree of organisational rigidity among Brisbane’s youth protesters. Collection of the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland

Bus tour historic sites, 1996

1 January 1996
6 December 2010
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

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

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

Trades Hall, Brisbane

Trades Hall, Brisbane. Trades Hall had long been a centre for radical agitation, from the great strike of 1912 to Peter Beattie’s famous bashing on its steps by overzealous cops after the 1971

Fryer Library, University of Queensland

Foco stickers

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 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

Japanese map of the Pacific, 1942

Australia
See map: Google Maps
1 January 1942
6 December 2010
6 December 2010

Location

Australia
See map: Google Maps
6 December 2010

Collection of the Queensland State Archives

Fortress Queensland 1942-45

Japanese map of the Coral Sea, including Queensland coast, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia (Japanese title is ‘Bismarck to Caledonia’). Produced by the Japanese Department of Waterways in May 1943, this map presents intelligence data related to airports, navigation beacons, signal points and broadcasting stations in the Coral Sea and Queensland. A map in this series (and showing all of Queensland) was found in Borneo in July 1945 by Lt-Col A.L. Rose of the 1st Australian Combined Operations Section. It was displayed at the Royal United Services Institute Hall, Victoria Barracks, Brisbane, 2010. Collection of the Queensland State Archives

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