Jack Mundey - Changeing Rights In Australia
“I think the Green Bans were probably the most exciting innovation that the Builders Labourers became involved in. There was so much development taking place and at the outset there was this feeling that 'all development was good - it was progress...' But as historical buildings, and buildings worthy of preservation were knocked down, and whole neighbourhoods were disrupted - for example all the working class people in the rocks were going to be thrown out for high-rise development - a segment of the population said 'well, we should be concerned about our vanishing heritage.” – Quote by Jack Mundey
Hello I’m Jack Mundey I was born in the end of 1929 - right in the heart of the Depression. I became a national figure in the early 1970s when as Secretary of the NSW Branch of the Builders' Labourers Federation; I led the union's famous 'green bans'. This extraordinary conservation campaign redefined the progress of Australia's major cities.
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