Or was it simply that, as publisher of NOW and girlfriend of a senior official in the last union still obstructing development, she was the only remaining obstacle to Theeman and Saffron’s plans for Victoria St? Meanwhile, on May 2, the National Trust had officially classified the street for reasons including its beauty and historical associations with major writers and artists – Trust Director RN Walker had said, “It could be described as the Montmartre of Sydney.” Theeman was outraged at the idea the Trust would classify an entire street, something it had never done before. A seamen with an awesome moustache and a gregarious, laidback manner, Fowler came back from sea to find he’d been evicted. He was arrested by San Francisco police in 1982.

This struggle hasn’t been for you, Frank Theeman, to sit down with me, Mick Fowler, and offer me the fucking world. On the one hand, and in many cases, this was disastrous for residents. “I gained the impression it was a document that she always carried and that it could be used against people whom Eddie [Trigg] and Shayne [Martin­Simmonds] and I were involved with… The impression I got was that the document linked Abe Saffron with Victoria Street.”. It wasn’t just a matter of a supportive or progressive union machinery – the most senior officials enthusiastically involved themselves in grassroots campaigning. By this point, the bosses and state government understood their best chance against the green bans was the ticket led by Federal Secretary Norm Gallagher. Frank Theeman, an Australian property developer, set up the Frank Theeman Australia - Israel Exchange Scheme between Australian and Israeli academics in the mid-70s coincidentally about the time of the Juanita Nielsen murder (July 1975).

As Ian and Teresa, who would go on to squat on the street, put it, “While the rest of the Cross fell victim to R and R and toy koalas, Victoria Street remained unchanged.” But this was not to last. Abe (Abraham) Saffron (1919-2006) owned a pub and nightclub empire and ran alcohol, gambling, nightclub and prostitution businesses. Soon, the police arrived at either end of the street, accompanied by Meissner’s thugs – now described as ‘controllers’ in a Theeman press release. The earliest squatters probably didn’t expect to last long – hell, you have to be impressed that they’d even consider squatting a street patrolled by gangs of thugs, especially after a leading campaigner was kidnapped and terrorised. . Sofonisba Anguissola known as Sophonisba Angussola or Sophonisba Anguisciola, was an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a poor noble family.

Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. King jumped out of bed and chased the guy out of the room, only to be jumped by two more guys waiting in the hall. They drank and gambled, fucked and argued. The wig was curled up in a fairly high hairstyle, and her hair would be under that. These were some dudes you wanted on your side if you were trying to stop your neighbourhood getting demolished. They knew something was up; his car was outside, he didn’t seem to have packed any clothes and all his shoes were still there. Found inside – Page ivHis frank disregard of the formality observed between him and Henry , 23. Which is returned by Henry , ib . Grand tournament held by them , 24. Is attacked by the EmAn ineffectual congress with the Emperor , under the mediation of ... Squatter Val Hodgson said that as the siege began, she felt secure and comfortable among friends, “but it was just the banging and the thumping and knowing of the imminent destruction and seeing the ceiling fall down and the lightbulbs flicker… and they tipped caustic soda on Eric… it was really quite terrifying. Find the perfect Duplicate Bridge stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. She allegedly got taken from the Carousel Club, to a motel elsewhere within the city and held against her will. Although the Theeman team had various line-ups over a number of years, Seamus was the linchpin. Found inside – Page 19... together with Mrs. D. Finical and daughter , Helen Finical , and Camilla Frank , also Mae Eschbach , Mary Kennedy and ... Hazel Carter , Alice Strickland , Lillian Fishbeck , Helen Theiman , Alpha Cox , Nancy Nee ! y , Ella Pheffer ... She was such an extraordinary woman and I dearly want to see her body recovered though I know she will never get justice. At the station, the police left him in the car and went inside. Theeman didn’t think this at all funny. But as the weeks wore on, and rumours that eviction was imminent came and went, people started to relax again, some believing they would be allowed to stay. Over a hundred people turned up – mostly residents, but also a few members of the Push and some BLF representatives. After King disappeared, most of the remaining residents moved out, but Mick Fowler moved back in. Your email address will not be published. Trigg was returned to Long Bay Jail to await trial. Certainly, those involved found it terrifying and draining – Susan Varga would note in an interview decades later that she still didn’t like to go to Victoria Street. They loaded him back in the boot and drove him round some more. I also looked at John Birmingham’s Leviathan and Jack Mundey’s autobiography. The otheroutstanding issue was the rights of low-income earners ‑traditionally all of these areas had housed low-income earners – and they were being thrown out to be replaced by trendies and so on.”. In June, Nielsen received threats serious enough that she began keeping Farrell informed of her day-to-day movements. The first of many times she was charged with obscenity, for publishing a bawdy bush ballad, she turned up to court wearing a nun’s habit with the words, “I have been fucked by God’s steel prick” written on it – a reference, she explained, to the ecstatic visions of St Theresa. He was absolutely terrified, and quite rightly.” Later, King would sum up the campaign with the brutal realism of a man kidnapped for what he believed in – “To bring back low-cost housing to one of the best streets in Sydney? “Laws are based around property, not people,” she editorialised. We started to develop the idea that we’d be here forever, so we’d plant trees, reconstruct the place. The officials encouraged workers to organise themselves, refused wages beyond the industry standard, and limited their own terms in office to three years. One of the most famous 'green bans' was to protect 19th Century terrace houses on Victoria Road in Potts Point from demolition by developer Frank Theeman to build apartments. Group of retired ladies playing duplicate bridge, circa 1963. Krahe, described by one detective as “a big, brooding bastard with an aura of power and evil about him,” was a known associate of both Saffron and Theeman. When the squatters told them they weren’t there, the visitors became abusive and threatened to smash the door down and beat up everybody inside. Transported to Sydney as a convict with a young daughter, Esther Abrahams rose to prominence in colonial society. There’s been death. 1974: 5th Leave Me Alone (Ruby Red Dress) Helen Reddy . They took inspiration from squats like Maranmah, occupied and organised communally by returned servicemen and their families after WWII. People from three Australian States will participate in the 1972 U.I.A. According to the student, Trigg felt he’d outsmarted Saffron, who would never have paid so much if he’d realised the sentence would be so short. We have now occupied number 57 and 59.” I said, “What? That evening, they went back to report him missing. Found inside – Page 488The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions Francis Beaumont Alexander Dyce ... it works so strongly , That , if the least heat of a child's affection 1 If God had made thee man ] The second folio has , “ If thou'dst been ... FRANK THEEMAN. On 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen, a wealthy heiress, Sydney newspaper publisher and anti-development campaigner left an appointment at a Kings Cross nightclub and simply disappeared. The controllers made their first moves against number 57, but the description of the men as “very beery” seems to have been apt, as they spent five minutes trying to crowbar open an unlocked gate. IIRC, the circumstances that Alan Saffron alleges to have occurred were, that the late Frank Theeman (a property developer, whom Nielsen was campaigning against; and an associate of Abe Saffron) had organised her kidnapping; on the premise to 'compel' her into backing off in her campaign of the Victoria Street redevelopment. 1. Daughter Sze-kei is with FannieMae in Washington." . Theeman had a good look for the small-scale James Bond villain he was about to become; a short, round, hunched little man with glasses and thin hair that wasn’t quite a combover yet. So That Chip Shortage Is Going To Make Apple Products Even More Expensive. He had come to Australia from Vienna 30 years earlier, and somehow on the boat over convinced another of the passengers to back him in setting up a lingerie business. Then 15 minutes later, in another stall, I found two sealed copies of "Ice" by Frank Washington (big modern/boogie . I remember the emergency meeting outside the squatted balloon shop in King St after the owner had threatened to return with some thugs, and I was vocal in insisting we should leave for everybody’s safety. Uma Thurman, Actress: Kill Bill: Vol. That Friday, the 13’h (uh oh), King had a few friends over for drinks. In Uncategorized • 2.272 Comments. His initial plan was to replace the terraces with three 45-storey towers and a carpark. If you’re interested in more of this story, there are three books I’d recommend -Meredith and Verity Burgmann’s excellent history of the BLF, Green Bans, Red Union, and Anne Coombs’s Push history, Sex and Anarchy, both of which discuss Victoria St at some length, and David Hickie’s The Prince and the Premier, about corruption and organised crime in NSW in the 70s, including a lengthy account of the Juanita Nielsen inquest. My aunt delights in participating in internet research and it is obvious why. 'Just grab her arms and stop her calling out, no real rough stuff, no gangster stuff. Krahe had been implicated in a wide range of extortion rackets, as well as organising bank robberies, and having arranged the murder of fellow corrupt cop, Superintendent Don Fergusson.

But the campaign radicalised her, and her writing became more militant. The two men came down early the next morning, but Kipman climbed up onto the neigbouring chimney at 114 at dawn. mutations. (We did, but eventually negotiated a sort-of settlement that gave us time for a couple more events and to move out.) This strike formed a turning point for the union and its members, who found not only their industrial strength, but pride in what they were doing. The police prevented the controllers smashing the chimney out from under them, and both men were still there when the arrestees returned to the street at 5:30 in the afternoon. thriller. The back of 115 Victoria St became the squatters’ creche, including a downstairs flat, three old garages and grass and concrete back yards. Other nights we’d do much the same thing and call it a party.”. The Action Group published a number of newspapers, including The City Squatter and The Victoria Street Rag. Don’t be foolish.” Anyway, they didn’t.
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. "was last seen at a nightclub in Kings Cross." I found a sea shell and gave it to my 4 year old daughter and said "You can hear the ocean if you put this to your ear." She placed the shell to her ear and screamed. Found inside – Page 466“ Robin , ” he said , “ thou hast used me ill enough this day ; but if you mean , like a frank fellow , to shake hands , and make a tussle for love on the sod , why I'll forgie thee man , and we shall be better friends than ever . She did not attend, nor did she show up to a meeting to discuss advertising in NOW because she was suspicious - the club had never expressed any interest before. He broke the latter promise even quicker than the former, but on the 4″‘ of June, the Trust endorsed Woolley’s plan. Would love to obtain a photo if 204 Victoria Street from the mid 1950’s (or any photo) before it wad pulled down. Nevertheless, by 8:30 almost all squatters had been removed and 26 of them were in jail, along with 13 supporters, mostly charged with obstruction. HT 9 697Tt Poplars Hospital Epping, to Vl nd Oor ton. . Forty-six . Sydney. The case provided an ironic kind of tenure for the squatters, who felt safe from eviction pending the outcome of the trial – as Cox put it, “A summons is as good as a 5a lease.” Nevertheless, the squatters faced continuing abuse from Meissner’s karate goons. For others, such a rapprochement was neither long-awaited nor welcome. oOAPa5 Yay google is my queen assisted me to find this great internet site!.

Now Victoria Street and similar inner-city areas (in the Rocks, Waterloo, etc) sang out to developers looking for the next move. That was April 30. Parents contributed $2 a week towards equipment and outings, and various squatters – not only parents- volunteered a day or two a week to look after the kids.

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King laughed a you-don’t-scare-me laugh, and Fletcher walked away. A few weeks later, the first green ban was lifted – the one on Victoria St, which Gallagher dismissed as “little more than a brothel”.
0. My research skills are nothing to boast about, but I couldn’t even find a mention of the fire in contemporary Sydney newspapers. There’d always be something happening, like the plumbing would get cut off, or one of the thugs would come and smash up the wiring, or we would have broken into another house.”, A squatter named Chris wrote that, “every Wednesday night we got together in the Stables [the squatters’ de facto headquarters] to discuss new ideas, problems, criticisms and general feelings. Gallagher swooped, launching a largely illegal intervention, safe in the knowledge that the NSW BLF would be unwilling to take legal action against fellow unionists. But despite the case generating extraordinary publicity, her remains have never been found. Police followed to arrest those squatters who refused to leave. They met an Aboriginal man who’d jumped out a window to escape the blaze, and he told them that his sister was still inside. Blair died from his injuries and his body was thrown into Sydney Harbour in the belief that it would be eaten by sharks. The only possible motive lay with Gallagher and his allies, but the police brought no charges. Finally on July 3 she agreed to a meeting at the club the next day, calling the next morning to advise she was running late because she was hungover. Frank 'Baldy' Blair had his toes cut and testicles torched to persuade him to reveal where he had deposited his $90 000 share of the robbery. The Washington times. Press J to jump to the feed. He had no front teeth, which he said was the result of a confrontation with a BL on Victoria Street, but which squatters would insist came about through his teenage party trick of biting steel bars. Born to Neil Donovan Smith, an English-born heir to the Mark Foy's retail . July T--,199,-. King went to see Fred Fletcher, Theeman’s “troubleshooter”, to tell him to cut it out with the police harassment. Found inside – Page 792But it was almost too difficult , When they spoke of their daughter , their voices choked and their eyes filled . ... rigs . en larm workers . a to the eman home . are Workers Memorial Fund ” . serve the movement led by Cesar Chavez . Bill Donnely, Theeman’s PR manager, boasted that the controllers would use “whatever force possible” to prevent squatters re-entering their homes. Minneapolis, Mn., Thur., Aug. 29, 2002--As Doris McCalla studies her hand , Shel Weinstein and Mary Finnegan plan their strategy for a hand of bridge.

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I am inclined to believe the allegation and theory of Anderson being responsible her death. Saffron, via his deputy, Jim Anderson was almost certainly Theeman’s point man in arranging police and other harassment of Victoria St residents, including the kidnapping of Arthur King. Found inside – Page 185The heroine is the daughter of an English officer A romantic story of hunting and adventure in the stationed in India ; here she was born ... N. Y. , Dodd , Mead leader in the reform movement known as “ the eman . cipation of woman . When he started yelling for help, one of the men put a knife to his neck and told him, “This is a knife. Many of the early squatters were associated with the Push, but as the struggle continued, they attracted a wider range of supporters and occupants. She held land at Georges River, and was mistress of Annandale House until conflict with her son Robert led to her being declared unable to administer her estates. Victoria St ,Darlinghurst Rd.Stayed there August 1968 on a school holiday,While there I fossicked around internal areas of hotel,below ground level I came out a lift kitchens seemed to be to right .On the left when ventured down corridors I found old rooms .Each had people at the doorways ,scared witless i bolted.As an adult in 1993 I went back to solve this mystery but hotel was demolished.Always thought these people could be homeless at that time ,put down below Canberra Rex by Salvos Smith Family or similar.Has anybody have any information contact me by email THANKS g.jb. Uma Karuna Thurman was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a highly unorthodox and internationally-minded family. It was what they prefer to call ‘progress’, but it was progress backwards.” But some areas were holding out against the changes. During Rogerson's career, he was. I have fun with, cause I found exactly what I was looking for. Construction projects at the time were dominated by powerful unions which acted to protect heritage sites from developers. – Ed. The previous evening the siblings had met a white guy who they’d invited to come stay, and who had since disappeared – presumably the arsonist. Today, I went to the beach with my kids. Jack Mundey noted that this was “the sort of thing that’s going to happen if we keep confronting capital.” He added, with unfortunate prescience, “I wouldn’t be surprised to see actual death in the struggle to see which way the inner city goes.” Thugs drove up and down the street, yelling, “We’re going to get you and you’ll be gone.”. He told us what was happening up there and wanted to know how we got started to fight the developers moving in on us and how he should go about starting a group. The residents responded by throwing a bag of lime over their heads from an upstairs window, and Cox, wielding a chair leg, chased them off. However, before the situation at Potts Point hit the headlines, we were publicising the same situation being experienced in Woolloomooloo but on a slightly larger scale than in Victoria Street, with a stall at the annual Argyle Festival Day in The Rocks.

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Uma Thurman - IMDb In March, 1970 Frank Theeman's Victoria Point Pty Ltd started buying up the properties between 55 and 115 Victoria St with a view to knocking them down and throwing up some highrises. Gallagher had promised to ‘review’ all green bans if the Maoists won, and ran full page “To all building workers: A message of concern” ads in major newspapers, criticising the state leadership. Portland Transcript - Volume 22 - Page 87 1937 New Year Honours (8,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article. The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford - Page 207 . Marie Perrone Obituary (2009) - Atlantic City, NJ - The ... It is peopled with those who cannot afford to live elsewhere, but who huddle trapped between a precipitous rocky . Police officer, detective sergeant. There WON'T be an interest rate rise before Christmas, Bank of England chief economist hints. She is survived by a loving family: daughters, Katie Apgar . Her handbag was found on the side of a highway leading to the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney's CBD, eight days later. You know. Resident Diane Cleymans recalled, “A lot of the old people were given only about two days’ notice. (CC) See what's new with book lending at the Internet Archive She never wants to go back! At one point, the Action Group managed to infiltrate a party at Theeman’s luxurious Bellevue Hill home. Beyond that, it’s impossible to say for sure what happened. Ms Nielson, 38, a newspaper publisher disappeared from the centre of Sydney's seedy underbelly 46 years ago. Waters, along with Roelof Smilde, was the de facto leader of the group, and Bacon was its newest celebrity. I don’t think there’s any doubt that Nielsen was murdered by men acting for Jim Anderson, at the behest of Abe Saffron, and with at least the tacit approval of Frank Theeman.

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