Comments on: People Power

By: shazza

shazza — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:07:57 +0000

Yes that was the gentleman.

By: RaginDave

RaginDave — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:39:18 +0000

I think you’re thinking of Mark Allen.

By: The Lazy Aussie

The Lazy Aussie — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:54:15 +0000

I had forgotten Cookster had recently soiled the people’s wall with his pole and stripper based antics.

By: shazza

shazza — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:05:37 +0000

I recall attending a rally at Parliament House while the workers embassy was in full swing. Wasn’t the catalyst for the embassy the death of a union rep or Worksafe staffer on a building site? I am ashamed to say that I don’t recall the gentlemans name.

I think leaving the bbq would have been a far more fitting tribute.

By: En Pole, En Route « The Worst of Perth

En Pole, En Route « The Worst of Perth — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:04:20 +0000

[...] these of the man with a pole dancer at parliament House’s back door. How worst is this, Cookster fouling and demeaning The People’s Wall? One of our crappiest and blandest areas of the city! Perth’s Eureka Stockade! And even worse, [...]

By: Jesse Chilcott

Jesse Chilcott — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:48:26 +0000

That brings back memories. The year was either 96 or 97, and after a planned union march to parliament house, a workers embassy was formed in the bush land across the road. There was a BBQ and caravans to sleep in. I was 16 and recently homeless and it served as a home. It was a wonderful experience, in the sense that when I could afford to attend uni, I got to laugh at all the Che t-shirt rich kids.

My uncle now works across the road as a hansard, I bet anything he is the commenter you refer to.

By: The Lazy Aussie

The Lazy Aussie — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:09:57 +0000

The people’s grill is (I think) still there. I know there is a hansard reporter in the commenters group. Perhaps he can go out the back and have a look.

By: Bento

Bento — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:52:24 +0000

I covered the 3rd wave as a student journalist, and remember visiting Tony ‘Pottymouth’ Cooke out there a couple of times.

I thought they’d built (and left behind) a brick BBQ – is the People’s Wall perhaps all that remains? Perhaps Keirath took away the other two (smaller) People’s Walls, the People’s Grillplate, and the People’s Woodpile.

By: lazyaussie

lazyaussie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:54:14 +0000

Thanks L. I suppose a great memorial to a great victory is too much to hope for, you are right.

By: lisa

lisa — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:52:49 +0000

Among many war-stories about the 3rd wave actions, the one that really that sticks in my mind is about a rockin’ caravan.

There are plenty of exquisite memorials to the most ignominious defeats (think Gallipoli) so why not have a crummy pillar with a white blob on it to commemorate a nice victory, as Matt points out it was.