Hi Charlie

I was in Woolloomooloo on New Years Eve. There was a street party down close to the harbour, and a lot of people were about. The area is beautiful and is a mix of gentry & urban poor.

In the late 80s i used to do cartoons for the BLF (builder's Labourer's Federation) which was the union which had implemented all the green bans. It was an interesting time, when politics was acted out on the streets. Unions, developers, police.. the police in sydney were very corrupt in the 70s and it was a tough time.There was a journalist called Juanita Neilson who ran a local community newspaper in the area. she documented all the goings on and was murdered (her body was never found).

freda