DALE CARNEGIE’S book How to Win Friends and Influence People sold by the shipload. It was a guide on how to make yourself socially acceptable, enhance your career opportunities and thus become a cog in the wheel of capitalism. An interesting book with a contrary attitude to that title -How to Make Trouble and Influence People- has lobbed in Darwin and should sell well. It deals with pranks, hoaxes, graffiti and political mischief-making in Australia. By Iain McIntyre, there is a foreword by Andrew Hansen of The Chaser and it is published by Breakdown Press, Carlton, Melbourne.
It is an expanded compilation of these zines -the 1996 How to Make Trouble and Influence People , the 1999 How to Stop Whining and Start Living and the 2003 Revenge Of The Troublemakers .
It is an expanded compilation of these zines -the 1996 How to Make Trouble and Influence People , the 1999 How to Stop Whining and Start Living and the 2003 Revenge Of The Troublemakers .
Included in the conversations with a number of Australian activists are John Safran, John Howard Ladies ‘ Auxiliary Fan Club, Pauline Pantsdown, the Order of Perpetual Indulgence and No to Pope Coalition is Darwin’s own Stuart Highway , photographed with journalist Robert Inder-Smith , often seen strumming on a guitar and singing protest songs at the Nightcliff Sunday market, near Stuart Highway’s stall, and the late Gary Meyerhoff. Another conversation is with Arabunna ant- uranium and land rights activist Kevin Buzzacott
The well illustrated book covers expressions of mass and individual protest in the nation from the early days of white settlement , taking in protests at Pine Gap , a night time graffiti raid on the Darwin Indonesian Consulate office and the Gurindji Wave Hill strike.
Of particular interest are two photographs by an unknown photographer of the Day of Mourning march and meeting staged by Aboriginals in Sydney on the 1938 150th anniversary of white settlement . It shows well dressed men , women and children with signs saying Aborigines claim citizen rights. One large sign declares it is an Aboriginal Conference Day of Mourning –Aborigines Only. The caption says that Henry Fergusson, Jack Patten, Pearl Gibbs ,William Cooper and other indigenous leaders braved the threat of arrest to hold this first ever national Aboriginal civil rights gathering.
On that sesqui-centenary of European settlement, Xavier Herbert won the award for his novel, Capricornia , which revealed much about the treatment of Aboriginals in the Territory. A quick flick through the book and the familiar face of Brian Manning popped up in a 1981 picket by Darwin wharfies to stop the export of uranium . Senator Bob Brown is also pictured addressing protestors at the 1997 Jabiluka uranium mine blockade.
The front cover shows a protestor dressed as a sugar glider being forcibly removed from the Victorian Treasury Office after dumping a pile of woodchips with other furry and feathered friends. The glider was heard shout, “Stop woodchipping the water catchment , Brumby!”
Buga-Up- which hit billboards, especially those of cigarette companies- green bans, anti logging, women’s lib, ant –war, ant- apartheid , stop the Springboks tour, protect old growth forests , these and many more causes are there . For more information and how to order copies-www.howtomaketroubleandinfluencepeople.org. If you are smart, go along to Stuart Highway's stall at the Nightcliff market on Sunday and he may be able to sell you a copy and autograph it as well.
The well illustrated book covers expressions of mass and individual protest in the nation from the early days of white settlement , taking in protests at Pine Gap , a night time graffiti raid on the Darwin Indonesian Consulate office and the Gurindji Wave Hill strike.
Of particular interest are two photographs by an unknown photographer of the Day of Mourning march and meeting staged by Aboriginals in Sydney on the 1938 150th anniversary of white settlement . It shows well dressed men , women and children with signs saying Aborigines claim citizen rights. One large sign declares it is an Aboriginal Conference Day of Mourning –Aborigines Only. The caption says that Henry Fergusson, Jack Patten, Pearl Gibbs ,William Cooper and other indigenous leaders braved the threat of arrest to hold this first ever national Aboriginal civil rights gathering.
On that sesqui-centenary of European settlement, Xavier Herbert won the award for his novel, Capricornia , which revealed much about the treatment of Aboriginals in the Territory. A quick flick through the book and the familiar face of Brian Manning popped up in a 1981 picket by Darwin wharfies to stop the export of uranium . Senator Bob Brown is also pictured addressing protestors at the 1997 Jabiluka uranium mine blockade.
The front cover shows a protestor dressed as a sugar glider being forcibly removed from the Victorian Treasury Office after dumping a pile of woodchips with other furry and feathered friends. The glider was heard shout, “Stop woodchipping the water catchment , Brumby!”
Buga-Up- which hit billboards, especially those of cigarette companies- green bans, anti logging, women’s lib, ant –war, ant- apartheid , stop the Springboks tour, protect old growth forests , these and many more causes are there . For more information and how to order copies-www.howtomaketroubleandinfluencepeople.org. If you are smart, go along to Stuart Highway's stall at the Nightcliff market on Sunday and he may be able to sell you a copy and autograph it as well.
