The recollections of a Cold War Kid
Brett Heino | June 1, 2026
I have written many book reviews before, but this is the first time I have ever reviewed a memoir, Rowan Cahill's Cold War Kid: Resisting the Vietnam War (Kembla Books, 2026).
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Posts Tagged ‘sydney’
The Barber Who Read History review
Brett Heino | January 25, 2022
When Rowan Cahill first asked whether I would be interested in reading and reviewing his and Terry Irving’s The Barber Who Read History: Essays in Radical History, I signed on without hesitation. Almost immediately, a series of questions passed through my head that will be instantly [...]
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Jack Mundey: Why the inspiration lives on
Lee Rhiannon | May 18, 2020
In the early 1970s Jack Mundey led a union of builders labourers that took strike action and imposed bans on developments that were then worth around $5 billion. At the time, Jack and his union, the Builders Labourers Federation, were intensely vilified. Death threats were common. The BLF [...]
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The Spatial Resources of Radical Sydney
November 14, 2014
What better way to become acquainted with my new position at the University of Sydney than to familiarise myself with some of the radical past of the city itself? With that aim in mind I recently picked up a copy, from the independent bookshop Gleebooks, of Terry [...]
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