GLEBE: RADICAL WALKING TOUR GLEBE: RADICAL WALKING TOUR

Radical Glebe Walking Tour

Thursday Jan 9, 2025 from 4.40-6pm

Leading the tour: Rachel Evans, Action for Public Housing, Socialist Alliance, Carolyn Ienna, First Nations activist and occupation organiser of their (former) public housing estate at 82 Wentworth Park Rd, Glebe and Elizabeth Elenius is Convenor of Pyrmont Action Inc. and has a BA in Earth Sciences from Macquarie University.



Start: Resistance Bookshop, 22 Mountain St, Ultimo

Find out about the 1974 purchase by the Whitlam Government of Glebe’s church estates into public housing and conserve this historic suburb and keep it for low-income earners. See how the NSW government added additional public housing in the 1980s through beautifully designed low-rise infill and how today almost fifty years of good urban and social policy is threatened by sale and demolition.

Find out about the successful fight to resist the sell off Franklin St, Glebe estate and the battle for justice for deaths in custody victim, Jesse Deacon and other deaths in custodies in the area.

Find out about the fight to stop the demolition of Cowper Street public housing and the occupation of 82 Wentworth Park Road, Glebe and the development of the ‘Fish Markets’ and the lack of public housing in the multi-million dollar high rise.

The tour takes 1.5 hours along a gently sloping route and for Socialist Alliance National Conference attendees, is free. For all others, $5/$10/$20/$50. No one turned away. Proceeds to Green Left.

We will pay tribute to Glebe local Ian Stephenson, recently deceased and President of the Glebe Society and former Senior Curator with the National Trust (NSW), Director of Historic Places in Canberra and CEO of the National Trust for South Australia, who took the Radical Glebe Walking Tours for Green Left on numerous occasions.

Book here or pay/donate on the day:

Contact 0403 517 266