Neighbourhood Media Newtown Magazine | April 2024

THE WRECK OF THE DUNBAR

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HISTORY

Wreck of the Dunbar

HISTORY

The Ghost in Camperdown Cemetery, Bathsheba Ghost

HUMANS OF 2042

I Have a Dream - Juliee Pryor

COMMUNITY

The Finders Keepers Market returns to Carriageworks!

COMMUNITY

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre extend Drop-In Hours

COMMUNITY

Catching up with Jenny Leong

ARTS

What’s on at New Theatre

HUMANS OF 2042

Who is Absurdeus?

TIME flies when you’re having fun - we are back in 2024 with Issue #9.

We dig into the history of Camperdown Memorial Cemetery, learning more about two notable burials on the grounds. We chat to Juliee Pryor, artist behind one of Newtown’s most recognisable murals - we also catch up with her son later in the issue, local painter Absurdeus!

The Newtown Car Boot Sleepout is back; we have details on how you get involved and support the local homeless community. We meet the team behind Newtown Climate Change, and hear more about Newtown Community Centre’s extended service hours.

We check out what’s coming up at New Theatre, chat to Rafael Bonachela about his new production momenta , there’s a What’s On Guide, a round-up of the BEST local Happy Hours and weekly specials + HEAPS more.

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HISTORY

By ALEC SMART

In a corner of Camperdown Cemetery in Newtown, enclosed within a rectangular barrier of corroding iron railings, is a raised marble sarcophagus. Alongside stands the rusted remains of a ship’s anchor. This memorial pays tribute to the victims of two horrific shipwrecks – Dunbar (20 Aug 1857) and Catherine Adamson (24 Oct 1857).

TTHE Dunbar disaster is one of Australia’s worst maritime tragedies due to the massive loss of life – 121 passengers and crew.

Beneath the plinth in the cemetery’s mass grave lie the remains of the bodies of 24 Dunbar victims, few of whom could be identified because they had either deteriorated in the surging sea and rocks, or been mauled by sharks. The remains of the other 97 victims were never recovered.

The Catherine Adamson cadavers were added nine weeks later after that vessel struck rocks below North Head and broke apart in rough seas with the loss of 21 lives.

Visitors to South Head may wonder why the Macquarie Lighthouse, Australia’s oldest and still-in-use lighthouse, is situated one mile (2.2km) to the south of South Head. Why wasn’t it sited at the actual entrance to Sydney Harbour?

After these two horrific shipwrecks occurred in close proximity and two months apart, this glaring oversight forced the construction of the Hornby Lighthouse in 1858.

Previously, since 1816, a fire beacon (an iron basket filled with burning wood or coal and mounted on a tripod) was stationed below South Head, but it would have provided little illumination in fog and storms. Such was the case in 1857…

On the night of 20 August 1857, the 63 passengers and 59 crew aboard the Dunbar must have been in high spirits, so close to their destination after 81 days at sea. The threemasted ship had departed Plymouth, southern England, on 31 May on its second voyage to Sydney.

It is not known what caused Captain James Green to steer the 1,198 tonne fully-laden Dunbar straight into the 50-metre-high cliffs, instead of rounding South Head.

Green was a veteran of eight visits to Sydney, one commanding the Dunbar, and he had previously captained two other convict transporters – which had involved negotiating them through Sydney Heads.

Able Seaman James Johnson, who was on watch duty aboard the Dunbar the night they approached Sydney, testified at the Inquiry into the likely causes of the tragic shipwreck.

He recalled that shortly before midnight, bearing north, with the occasional flash of the Macquarie Lighthouse beacon through the fog, beset by a rising gale and limited visibility, Captain Green estimated the Dunbar was due east of Sydney Heads.

Green changed course and bore westwards towards what he assumed was the entrance to Sydney Harbour.

“It is not known what caused

Captain James Green to steer the 1,198 tonne fully-laden Dunbar straight into the 50-metre-high cliffs, instead of rounding South Head.”

However, an urgent cry was heard from the second mate on the foredeck, “Breakers ahead!”

This warning alerted the crew that waves were seen pounding on rocks directly in front, and their only course of action was to immediately divert the vessel from imminent collision.

Captain Green gave the order, “Port your helm!” –however, the situation was irrecoverable. Despite turning the vessel clockwise so it was side-on to the shoreline, they were driven broadside onto the cliff face by the surging tide and the vessel was catastrophically damaged a short distance south of The Gap.

Johnson was hurled onto the cliffs behind. Here he managed to climb up to a ledge, where he found refuge.

The ship then rolled onto its side and began to break up in the pounding surf. The lifeboats dislodged and were splintered by the crashing waves, so those onboard (the majority below decks) had little chance of survival.

All 63 passengers of the Dunbar and 58 crew perished as they were overwhelmed by the force of the surging sea.

Johnson was the only survivor of the shipwreck, which remains in the top ten of Australia’s worst maritime tragedies due to the high loss of life.

In the immediate aftermath of the disaster, thousands of spectators were drawn to view the remains of the Dunbar wreck, and witnessed the horror of mutilated bodies still being dashed against the cliff face below The Gap by the powerful waves.

Much of the cargo, personal belongings and broken timber from the doomed vessel washed into Sydney Harbour and was distributed along the shoreline around Middle Head. 17 bodies were recovered in this vicinity, many of them unrecognisable.

Over 20,000 people lined the streets of Sydney for the funeral procession, which consisted of seven hearses and four mourning coaches containing relatives of the deceased.

The service was conducted at Camperdown Cemetery in what was then called O’Connell Town (north Newtown), with the victims interred in a communal grave.

Nine weeks after the Dunbar disaster, on 24 October 1857, the steamer Catherine Adamson was wrecked entering Sydney Harbour when she struck the rocks below North Head with the loss of 21 lives. The remains of the victims were interred in the same mass grave among the Dunbar passengers and crew.

This second maritime tragedy, so close in proximity and time to the Dunbar, provoked an urgent demand for the installation of a lighthouse at South Head, which resulted in the construction of the 9.1 metre red-and-white striped Hornby Lighthouse the following year.

Australian Maritime Museum have a collection of artefacts from the wreck, which can be viewed on their Collections website.

HISTORY

CIf you’re looking for things that go bump in the night, you’re barking up the wrong tree. We’re talking about Bathsheba Ghost, Matron of Sydney General Hospital (18521866).

CHRISTENED into the Church of England on 25 December 1809 in Somerset, England, Bathsheba Dominey was the eldest of six children. In 1838, aged 29, she lived at 338 Oxford Street, London, with her husband Thomas Ghost and their three-year-old son Thomas. She had been working very successfully as a ladies’ nursery maid.

However, on May 19th, 1838, the Central Criminal Court of the Old Bailey in London, found Bathsheba guilty of receiving stolen property. She was sentenced to 14 years and ordered to be transported to the colony of New South Wales.

After four gruelling months at sea, Bathsheba arrived at Port Jackson in March 1839 aboard the Planter with 170 other female convicts. Thus began her solitary exile, separated from both child and husband.

After working as a Domestic Servant for six years, Bathseba was finally rewarded with her Ticket of Leave - this allowed her to work as a free woman, so long as she remained in the district of Sydney. It’s thought that soon after this event, she began working as a nurse at the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary.

Two years later, in 1847, she was granted a conditional pardon and was free, but she could not return to Britain.

Just five years after her conditional pardon, In 1852, Bathsheba was appointed the Matron of the Sydney Infirmary and Dispensary. She was awarded an initial annual salary of £80, as well as provided with board and lodging.

By 1854 this salary had increased to £100, and finally

£120, one of the highest salaries recorded for a female in New South Wales.

The hospital’s annual reports regularly praised her exertions in maintaining order and cleanliness, and for taking a leading role in training nurses under her care. Bathsheba worked during a period of significant change in medical practices – including the first use of anaesthetics.

Bathsheba never remarried, and we don’t know what happened to the husband. Towards the end of her life, her son Thomas migrated to Australia and she came to know her granddaughter Eliza. Other family members migrated voluntarily - her brother Thomas, wife Lydia and their two sons arrived in Victoria under the Bounty System in 1843.

She also sponsored her brother Solomon and wife Harriet, her sister Bethia and husband John Fry and the two couples’ nine children as free settlers. They arrived just months before her death, some of them working and boarding at the hospital.

Fittingly, Bathsheba died at her workplace in August 1866, the place of her reputable re-emergence into society. The cause was a lingering and painful disease of the uterus, relieved only by significant doses of drugs such as opium and alcohol. In her will Bathsheba bequeathed £100 to the hospital, a significant sum in 1866. She was buried in Camperdown Cemetery. In 1953 the then Matron Elsie Pidgeon unveiled a memorial stone to mark the gravesite in honour of Bathsheba.

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FEATURE

By ALEC SMART

MMARRICKVILLE Council, whose jurisdiction covered the west side of King St, made the decision to preserve it on 2 December 2014 with a unanimous vote at their Tuesday night council meeting.

Had the mural been on the eastern side of King St, which is under the jurisdiction of City of Sydney Council, the artwork would never have been preserved, because that authority had a different policy regarding preservation of graffiti art.

Because, unbeknownst to many, the enormous mural, which takes up the entire 3-storey side wall of 305 King St Newtown, was illegally painted during the hours of darkness in August 1991.

The guerrilla painters were Juilee Pryor and Andrew Aiken, part of a clandestine collective of mural painters that operated under the name Unmitigated Audacity Productions (UAP).

From 1991-1995, the UAP guerrilla artists group, which also included Tony Spanos and MatthewPeet, painted a number of murals around the Newtown neighbourhood, only one or two of which are still in situ.

Juilee told Neighbourhood Media, “The time I spent painting walls without permission was very specific to the Newtown area. There was an arc that covered ground between my home and where Andrew (my painting partner at that time) lived. We both needed to be able to work in an area that we could both walk to so it was a small but quite

Most people familiar with the iconic I Have A Dream mural, a massive artwork on an exterior wall in King Street, Newtown, visible to south-bound traffic and pedestrians, are unaware it was NSW Heritage-listed.

densely covered area for that time that we were doing it.”

They had twice asked Marrickville Council for permission to decorate the large wall on King St, but had been denied, because the prime site was utilised for advertising billboards.

Nevertheless, on Friday 2 August 1991, the daring duo began their clandestine composition around 7pm, working through the night. The plucky pair returned the following evening to complete the piece, which reportedly used $1000 worth of paint and took 27 hours.

Police were initially notified by a concerned by-passer, but Juilee, then 35 and a mother of three, feigned innocence after a Newtown Police sergeant questioned her about reports of graffiti artists operating in the area.

“Sergeant, we’re not lurking,” she responded, “we’re creating an artwork. And do I look like a graffiti artist to you?” The cheeky painters had even printed a fake letter of permission using a Marrickville Council letterhead.

Initially, the audacious artwork was height-restricted, because the duo only brought ladders. However, the following night collaborator Tony Spanos, described as an ‘eccentric millionaire’ who drove around in a gold Rolls Royce and whose family owned a meat export company, hired a mobile ‘cherry picker’ gantry to enable the two painters to reach the upper reaches.

The mural consists of an Aboriginal flag along the bottom with a profile of planet Earth to the upper left.

Upper right is the familiar face of American Civil Rights

leader Reverend Martin Luther King Jr, and across the centre are King’s prophetic words from his 28 Aug 1963 “I have a dream” speech, and written in an historic Blackletter font.

A Biblical quotation from Genesis 37:19 appears on the far left: «Behold the dreamer cometh; Come now therefore and let us slay him, and we shall see what will become of his dreams».

On its completion they declared it a «humanist protest against the sterility of postmodern art!”

In the original version of the mural, there was no Aboriginal flag – that was added later. Instead, there was a collection of people looking up at Dr King.

The mural overlooks a small public courtyard owned by telecommunications company Telstra that extends for 50 metres. This is because the retail shops 295, 297, 299, 301 and 303 King St no longer exist, so there is a gap between 305 (the mural wall) and the next shop to the north, 293 King St.

In 1995 Telstra proposed to develop this plaza, which would have seen eradication of the mural, but a public outcry thwarted their plans.

Even the owner of 305 King St, which consists of a retail store and apartments above, supported the preservation of the artwork on the outside wall, despite the fact he’s long had to forego the income from the advertising hoarding.

In a Sydney Morning Herald article dated 25 August 2011, the then 83-year-old Joseph Dekanic, said “I think the mural

benefits the building and the area. On a philosophical level it means something to me. It’s about justice and progress and the betterment of people.”

Coldplay, the British rock quartet that are among the bestselling, highest-awarded bands in history, chose to film their June 2014 music video “A Sky Full of Stars” guerrilla-style on King St, starting beneath the I Have A Dream mural. Carrying their instruments like busking troubadours, they led a crowd south down to the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre for a confetti-strewn singalong.

What became of Juilee’s accomplice, Andrew Aiken, her primary collaborator and the instigator and leader of guerrilla graffiti artists UAP? In 1997 he surrendered to British Police and served an eight-year prison sentence in England for a murder of a busker he committed prior to emigrating to Australia in 1990.

Upon his release in 2005, he returned to his native Canada and joined a devout Christian sect in British Columbia.

Juilee Pryor website: juileepryor.com/ Juilee Pryor Street Art Photograph Collection, City of Sydney Archives: archives.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1894988

COMMUNITY

Australia’s most loved design market, The Finders Keepers, is returning to Carriageworks this May 3rd - 5th, bringing over 160 of Australia’s best designers and makers back to their original market home.

2024 is their 16th year of making market magic and they’ve got a stellar line-up of Australia’s craftiest cats just waiting to show you what they’ve been working on.

It’s more than Australia’s favourite design market - The Finders Keepers is growing the mindfully made, thoughtfully bought revolution, with you.

Take a break from scrolling and start strolling the market aisles, boogie to live local DJs, eat fresh food, sample the bars and support Australia’s creative best, the weekend before Mothers’ Day from Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th May 2024.

Founded in Sydney in 2008, The Finders Keepers has grown to become a catalyst for empowering small businesses and spreading the joy of creativity.

Their festival-style markets are the ultimate creative day out supporting new and established designers, artists, makers, musicians and foodies all in one jam-packed event.

The Finders Keepers envision a mindful marketplace that fosters a community of passionate shop-small supporters. They work to bring to life the “third place” concept - a communal space where connections flourish, and the joy of discovering unique and handmade is shared.

They are committed to empowering creative entrepreneurs to thrive, offering year-round support and resources. They aspire to grow their creative community, providing a reallife hub for genuine connections, a place to celebrate the artistry behind each creation.

Debuting at the Sydney Design Market this May 3-5 you’ll find Sydney-based cult scrapbooking crafter Martina Calvi with her label Martina’s Tiny Store, in a rare market appearance with her nostalgic stickers, zines and more.

This season’s Indigenous Program recipient is 10-yearold Wiradjuri and Palawa change-maker Penelope Towney, aka Towney Time, with her film content, art, and handmade jewellery.

Ceramics collectors will rejoice in new wares from favourite Sydney makers Public Holiday and Bea Bellingham, quirky planters from debut seller Monika Lencse, sculptural pieces from Issy Parker, unique illustrated vessels by Melbourne’s

Throughgood Pottery, and many more clay makers.

There will be plenty of foodie winter warmers, with awardwinning hot chocolate and sticky chai from Mixed Bag, a taste of India with Dahl By Devina, build-your-own wastefree ramen kits by the Naked Asian Grocer, fire & spice tonic from SISUU, and DIY cocktail helpers from LISTO Margaritas, and botanical aperitif from TANICA.

Treat the mother figure in your life to some self-care time, with nourishing masks, soaps, soaks and more handcrafted by The Finders Keepers stallholders. Stock up on natural plant-based soaps from Melbourne’s Calico Soap Bar, natural perfumes by debut seller betweenlines, pampering gift packs from In The Buff Body Stuff, to name just a few.

Meet your new favourite slow fashion labels from debut fashion sellers including reinvented military and vintage denim from Bossa & Co, pastel garments by Clownette and upcycled shirts by Myrtle & Dove, alongside leather accessories by Cinder Projects.

Everyone is welcome at The Finders Keepers, and they can’t wait to welcome you back to Carriageworks this May 3rd - 5th for a long weekend of market magic and a true celebration of creativity.

Tickets are $6 plus booking fee, and kids under 13 are free.

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Saturday 4th May 10am - 5pm

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Sleep out in your car to help people put homelessness in their rear view mirror. Join the Car Boot Sleepout!

DDID you know that right now more than 122,000 Australians are experiencing some form of homelessness?

We are seeing more people present at our drop-in service every day in search of immediate support as the last resort before sleeping rough. Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC) not only provides the immediate assistance needed, but we also advocate for policy changes and increased investment that will result in more affordable homes for those who need them most.

WHAT IS CAR BOOT SLEEPOUT?

Join us on the 21st of May as we host the 2024 Car Boot Sleepout on the rooftop of the Marrickville Metro shopping centre. We’re asking our community to come together and sleep out in your car, in solidarity with people experiencing homelessness. It will be an experience like no other.

HOW IT WORKS:

1. Register: Sign up today and get your own fundraising page. Why not get someone else to sleep out with you in your car?

2. Get fundraising: Ask your friends and family to support you. We will equip you with all the skills and a personal fundraising coach to help you along the way.

3. Sleep Out! Have a memorable night sleeping out on Marrickville Metro rooftop.

The funds you raise will make a real difference to the lives of people across Sydney’s Inner West who rely on NNC every day for assistance. Your generosity ensures nobody has to be left out in the cold this winter.

Car Boot Sleepout: Tuesday 21 May 2024, Marrickville Metro Roof Car Park. Register your interest in the 2024 Car Boot Sleepout today! newtowncentre.org/carbootsleepout2024

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By Tahney Fosdike

By ADELINE TEOH

A car boot is a versatile thing. For some it’s where the groceries go after a trip to the supermarket, for others it’s a luggage compartment for a road trip. But what if it were an essential storage area for your living quarters?

FFOR many Australians who have been edged out of accommodation due to the housing crisis, living out of a car may be the most viable temporary solution. It’s a prospect that the Newtown Neighbourhood Centre (NNC) highlights in its annual Car Boot Sleepout, an event that raises funds for its services by inviting members of the community along for a slumber party that helps them gain insight into people’s experience of homelessness while building connections with other socially aware locals.

The 2023 event raised enough to extend the hours for the Centre’s Drop-in Hub, and it is once again asking the community to park themselves on the roof of Marrickville Metro on 21 May 2024 to continue its great work.

“We’re all about the community,” says Drop-in Hub manager Katie Yealland. “We’re particularly strong advocates for people who are vulnerable, people at risk of homelessness, but we do so much more. We’ve got long-running aged care groups; we’ve got a social support program; we have English classes. And we have a healthy ageing adviser that’s come on board more recently. It’s so diverse, but at heart it’s all about responding to community needs.”

One segment of the community that’s key to NNC’s success is its team of volunteers, “mostly local people with heaps of diverse skills,” Yealland describes. “Volunteers bring so much to the centre. Some of our strongest advocates are volunteers. We have a long-running volunteer program called Newtopian Outreach [who] once a week go out and speak to people who are sleeping on the street. And then those volunteers talk to their friends and community. It destigmatises homelessness when people understand people’s situations a bit more. I feel like that program has a real ripple effect.”

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre’s Katie Yealland has a soft spot for dogs and enjoys interacting with four-legged friends in the park.

“I love Sydney Park. I usually go on my lunch breaks and get my dog fix, pat a few dogs and just hang out there,” she says.

And if she’s grabbing lunch on the go, it’s probably a kale pastry from Miss Lilly’s and maybe a soy hot chocolate from Rolling Penny.

“I’m an anomaly here, I don’t drink coffee so that’s my thing.”

Yealland has been a witness to this effect for more than a decade. She first started working at the Centre in 2011 in its boarding house program, then left in 2017 to work in community development. She returned last year to manage the Drop-in Hub and says the changes have been widereaching.

“Things have expanded, like the service provision. We’ve brought in members from other teams with various skills and specialties, like the healthy ageing adviser, the homeless response worker, someone from the boarding house team, someone in the community strengthening team. So we draw on each other’s skills and we are able to respond in a more specialised way,” she explains.

Outside the Drop-in Hub, her favourite NNC service is the One Stop Shop on Thursdays, from 2-4pm. Here, a range of services – from government and legal advice, to housing, laundry, food and health offerings – come together to support those who need it. It’s accompanied by Chat ‘n’ Connect, where people can socialise over a free coffee or tea in the Centre’s courtyard. “It’s just a beautiful location and it’s a good way to bring a whole bunch of services together,” Yealland says.

It’s testament to its capacity to meet the needs of the people they serve, she adds. “Something I’ve always loved about Newtown Neighbourhood Centre is their ability to respond to needs in the community, be creative and be innovative. I feel like it’s a really resilient, adaptable organisation that can roll with the punches. And it’s always doing something interesting.”

Newtown Neighbourhood Centre is at 11-13 Darley Street, Newtown. The Drop-in Hub is open weekdays from 10am; see www.newtowncentre.org for details of events and services, and how to support the centre.

By Mark Mordue

“These chicken wings are freezing!” Andrew, a volunteer at our Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown store, has his hands bowl-deep in a pile of at least a hundred wings. He’s wearing gloves but it makes little difference. A tough job, people laugh, but somebody’s gotta do it.

SSTILL thawing, the chicken wings are being turned over in a sauce prepared by other volunteers in the spanking bright kitchen. The room is humming with energy: around ten people on a production line of vegetable dicing, marinating flavours (oyster and fish sauce with tamarind puree) (plus some brown sugar), and flat-out cooking over a burning stove.

Phil, their ‘head chef and ‘spiritual mentor’, does his best to maintain order – and make his pad Thai cooking process understandable. It helps he has a recipe book open for everyone to double-check. In the opposite corner, an apple tart is being set into trays before being baked. Another volunteer, Matthew, moves around cracking bad jokes. “I’m not the head chef, but I’m the chief stirrer. I do my work without a spoon.”

Outside the kitchen door, a 470 is pulling up on Pyrmont Bridge Road. Customers to our food pantry – just a few doors down from our kitchen – are arriving by bus from Glebe, as well as on foot locally, to start shopping when it opens from midday.

Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown operates as a low-cost grocery store, making use of rescued food that we save from going into landfill, what purchased stock we can afford from distributors, and the support of our donors. We give away free fruit-and-vegetables and free bread with every shop that goes over $5.00. Compared to the big supermarkets, most people walk away with four-to-six times the value on a simple spend.

Sitting between Addi Road Food Pantry Camperdown and our buzzing kitchen is Common Ground Sydney, a Mission Australia housing project offering wraparound services to its residents. Not far away is Johanna O’Dea Court, a multistorey NSW Family and Community Services apartment block. Across the road, some of the most expensive apartments in the inner city. Quite the contrast.

At Addi Road Food Pantry this varied clientele mingles. Locals-in-need shop beside those who like to support the pantry’s environmentally-friendly approach to rescued food. There’s a deeper sense of people searching for what

community can mean, customers chatting to one another and our volunteers, finding ways to become familiar and feel less alone. Food as a foundation for connection.

Inside the Common Ground building it’s just as busy. Our monthly ‘Addi Road ‘Let’s Get Cooking’ session (AKA «the Cook-Up») offers 260 free hot meals for residents as well as those shopping at our Food Pantry. We also run a monthly cooking demo inside the CG courtyard with Phil and Bronwyn, who set up all the ingredients on a table for today’s pad Thai and apple tart. Food literacy is the goal, helping people to shop and cook with limited funds. Each month there are extra tips for their kitchen cupboards, essentials to facilitate simple, inexpensive and nutritious recipes that match whatever Addi Road Food Pantry has in stock.

It’s an integrated food ecology for people battling. With that extra special ingredient: camaraderie. People cheer and laugh at the cooking advice and how they might manage a recipe. For many our Addi Road Cook Up is an impetus to leave their rooms and gather. Those struggling with mental health issues, or simply feeling shy, can take their free hamper boxes – packed and stacked beside the food demonstration table – back to their private rooms, along with the cooked meals that have come from our kitchen.

Outside on the street, tables are set. Phil’s pad Thai is being brought out and served. Then Bronwyn’s apple tart dessert. Residents from Common Ground and Johanna O’Dea Court are joined by more people jumping off the 470. A volunteer asks how it tastes. A young man raises both hands over his head and opens his fingers up like he has won something: “Ten out of ten.”

COMMUNITY

II’m Jenny Leong, the Greens MP for the electorate of Newtown and your representative in the NSW Parliament.

As the NSW Greens spokesperson for Housing and Homelessness, so much of the work our office and I do is centred on making sure everyone has a safe, affordable, accessible and secure place to call home and on expanding protections for renters across the state. With the housing affordability crisis worsening daily and too many community members in public housing or private rentals alike struggling to keep a roof over their head, this work is more important than ever.

Yet despite unending stories of young people being kicked out of their homes in retaliation for requesting basic maintenance, or single mothers for whom a drastic price hike is a de facto eviction notice, and more older people struggling in our city, Labor has done nothing to expand protections for the 2 million people who rent statewide.

One year into the Minns NSW Labor Government’s first term, we are still yet to see progress on their election promise to finally end unfair no grounds evictions in NSW.

Under current NSW law, landlords do not need to provide a reason for evicting people from their rental home. Housing security for tenants is at the whim of their landlord - regardless of how long they have lived in a home, how they have treated it, and whether they have always paid rent on time.

According to data from Fair Trading, one tenant is evicted every 18 minutes in NSW. This grim picture is compounded by the Tenants’ Union of NSW’s Evictions Map, which shows that across the state 13,011 landlords applied for an eviction through the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT) in 2023 - the actual number of evictions is likely to be much higher, given that not every landlord progresses evictions through NCAT.

As no doubt so many of you know, renters who are evicted from their homes face an incredibly bleak rental market in which vacancy rates are at all-time lows and rents continue to rise unchecked. It’s clear that action must be taken now to protect them from this dire reality - and if the NSW Labor Government won’t move to do this, the Greens will. With all the focus on building new homes to address the housing crisis, we also need to be doing everything we can to ensure people can stay in the homes they are already in, without the risk of being evicted for no reason.

At the last Parliamentary sitting in February, I introduced a Greens Bill to finally end unfair no grounds evictions for all tenancies in NSW - like both the ACT and South Australia have already done. The Bill would establish clear grounds on which tenancies could be terminated, alongside penalties for landlords who claim to be evicting a tenant so they themselves can move into a rental home or to renovate it but do not actually do so.

We will be progressing the Bill through Parliament as soon as possible, and urge all members of Parliament to listen to the renters in their communities and urgently pass this overdue reform.

Watch my speech introducing the Bill here: https://youtu.be/sFn4dSdJa0g

Yours sincerely,

Jenny Leong MP, Member for Newtown

P.S. - Whether or not you rent, if you’re concerned about a local issue or if our office can assist with a specific matter, don’t hesitate to get in touch by calling us on 9517 2800, emailing newtown@parliament.nsw.gov.au, or visiting our office at 383 King Street, Newtown.

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The Front Page by Ben Hecht & Charles Macarthur

New Theatre | April 23 - May 18

“A Journalist is a cross between a bootlegger and a whore.” Late at night, in the crowded press room at Chicago’s Criminal Court, a group of reporters is waiting to cover a controversial execution the next morning. Then an unexpected event breaks through the banter and bravura, and suddenly a scoop is on the cards.

This landmark comedy from 1928 introduced the nowfamiliar character of the hard-living, wise-cracking reporter chasing the big story, no matter what. In this fresh adaptation, complete with some gender swapping, the satire on corruption, manipulation and scandal in politics, journalism and justice still hits a nerve.

THE FINDERS KEEPERS MARKETS

Carriageworks | May 3rd - 5th

Visit Australia’s most loved design market as The Finders Keepers returns to Carriageworks in 2024! The Finders Keepers Sydney Design Market is back this May 3rd - 5th, bringing 160+ of Australia’s best designers, makers and foodies together for a three-day festival-style event.

The Finders Keepers is a place to connect and celebrate creativity, IRL. They are more than Australia’s favourite design market—they’re growing the mindfully made, thoughtfully bought revolution, with you. Take a break from scrolling and start strolling the market aisles, boogie to live local DJs, eat fresh food, sample the bars and support Australia’s creative best. From ceramics to slow fashion, fine jewellery to art, The Finders Keepers is where you’ll discover the latest from Australia’s craftiest cats.

Looking to let your hair down and take your dancing shoes for a spin? We’ve got you covered.

OCEAN PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR,

National Maritime Museum | Now Until End Of May

The Ocean Photographer of the Year exhibition features over 100 photographs of beautiful and thought-provoking imagery from some of the world’s best ocean photographers. Photographs reveal the full spectrum of ocean life through a wealth of drone, land and underwater images and include stunning imagery of wildlife encounters, seascapes, and beautiful interpretations of the human-ocean connection Ocean Photographer of the Year showcases all the winners and finalists from Oceanographic Magazine’s renowned competition, the Ocean Photographer of the Year awards, attracting entrants from across the world – from amateurs and professionals alike. The Australian National Maritime Museum is proud to have produced the world premiere exhibition of the awards and to showcase many international and Australian photographers, including Western Australian teenager Jarvis Smallman, who received the title of Young Ocean Photographer of the Year, 2023. Ocean Photographer of the Year is open at the Australian National Maritime Museum until the end of May, tickets are available via the website or at the Museum front desk.

SYDNEY COMEDY FESTIVAL

Various Venues | April 22nd - March 19th

Every April and May, over 250 of the best comedians from Australia and beyond take to stages across Sydney for a massive month of comedy, followed by a national Showcase Tour from May to December. The Festival kicks off in grand style with lavish gala events right across Sydney: the Sydney Opera House, Enmore Theatre, The Concourse Chatswood, Performing Arts Centre Sutherland and Riverside Theatres in Parramatta. The Festival program features performances from the finest Australian acts, the biggest international stars and the most promising emerging talent offering up everything from stand up to sketch, satire, impro, musical, absurdist, theatre, magic and kids comedy. In addition to presenting the biggest international stars and local legends, the Festival is a keen advocate and supporter of new Australian talent. Through the FRESH program, the Festival offers new Australian talent financial assistance, marketing support and professional advice to allow them to present a successful show, gain valuable experience and grow their audience.

ARTS

Ahead of the 2024 Sydney Dance Company season, we catch up with Artistic Director Rafael Bonachela.

D“DANCE brings people together,” says Rafael Bonachela. Since his appointment as Sydney Dance Company Artistic Director in 2009, he’s made no secret of his mission to help the Australian dance sector mature. “It’s been a goal of mine to transform Australia’s understanding of what contemporary dance is, pushing the boundaries of what contemporary dance can be, and ensuring that contemporary dance is accessible to everyone.”

Born in Spain, the dancer and choreographer has had an eclectic career spanning several countries and decades. The impetus to dance was an early one, he recalls. “When I was very young growing up in the small town La Garriga in Spain, my favourite game in the playground used to be to ‘make a dance’. I used to love bringing my boogie box to the town square and make up steps that my friends could perform. At the time I wasn’t even aware that what I was doing was called choreography.”

From there he attended dance school in Barcelona, then the UK, before joining London Dance Company Rambert as a dancer in 1992. There he began to explore choreography through Rambert’s Workshop season, which is similar to Sydney Dance Company’s New Breed program. “The first piece I created was taken into the company repertoire and after that experience I jumped at every single chance to choreograph I was given. In my final years as a dancer I was appointed as associate choreographer at Rambert,” he says.

In 2004, a win at the inaugural The Place Prize for contemporary dance encouraged him to dedicate himself fully to choreography. Cash from the prize enabled him to employ a part-time producer and secure additional funding to start the Bonachela Dance Company, where he choreographed for stars like Kylie Minogue and Tina Turner, as well as dance troupes.

A few years later, Sydney Dance Company invited Bonachela to create a work. It was meant to be a short stay, but after the production he was offered the role of Artistic Director. “After spending a month in Sydney working with the company in the extraordinary heritage-listed wharf studios, I began to see a future here was very possible and I was incredibly excited at the prospect of leading this exceptional company into the future.”

He accepted the role and has been at the helm ever since. “As the resident choreographer, I’m very passionate about creating new works to give our company its signature by developing an identity and aesthetic that is uniquely ours. As the Artistic Director and curator, my focus has been on introducing international choreographers to Australia for the first time. A strong focus is also commissioning and supporting homegrown talent, because I feel that it’s important to also showcase great Australian choreographic voices when we go overseas.”

The Company is about to embark on an extensive multi-city tour abroad with venues across Europe and the USA, including its debut performance Linbury Theatre at the Royal Opera House in London, with an official reception at Australia House – “a

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significant milestone for the company,” Bonachela remarks.

That’ll be followed by the 2024 season opener, momenta, Bonachela’s first full-length work in more than three years, which he created with composer Nick Wales, lighting designer Damien Cooper and set designer Elizabeth Gadsby. The work is “a journey into the poetry and physics of human connection, and explores themes of the universe, physics, space and time, which has provided an emotional landscape,” he describes. “Elizabeth Gadsby’s set design for momenta will be huge in scale, reflecting the universal themes of the work. It will be an immersive and moving experience for audiences.”

SYDNEY Dance Company Artistic Director

Rafael Bonachela may be from Spain but he has a penchant for Italian food. “One of my favourite places to eat in Sydney is Fratelli Paradiso in Potts Point. Pellegrino 2000 is also a new favourite,” he says.

And when the choreographer isn’t immersed in dance, he has other pursuits both artistic and physical. “In my spare time I love visiting galleries, especially the beautiful new Sydney Modern at AGNSW. I love swimming at the beach, walking by the harbour at Rushcutters Bay Park or in Walsh Bay where Sydney Dance Company’s wharf studios are located.”

Another calendar item of note is July’s Club Origami season for children six years old and under, which Bonachela says reflects a growing focus on dance performances created specifically for children. That, and “more site-specific and durational work” marks some of the trends he has noted in Australian dance of late.

“The Australian dance scene is very rich and diverse, and we are lucky in Australia because we have access to a wide range of dance styles. At the moment there is also a lot of discourse about diversity and inclusiveness in dance, which is hugely important,” he says. “Beyond the language we speak, beyond where we come from around the world, we all understand the body.”

Sydney Dance Company’s new season begins in May with momenta. Tickets and subscriptions are now on sale; see sydneydancecompany.com for details.

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ARTS

We caught up with the team at Newtown’s favourite local theatre to hear more about their upcoming productions.

THE FRONT PAGE

23 April - 18 May

by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur

Adapted by Nicholas Papademetriou

“A journalist is a cross between a bootlegger and a whore.”

Late at night, in the crowded press room at Chicago’s Criminal Courts, a group of reporters is waiting to cover a controversial execution the next morning.

Then an unexpected event breaks through the banter and bravura, the cynicism and ennui, and suddenly a scoop is on the cards.

This landmark comedy from 1928 introduced the nowfamiliar trope of the hard-living, hard-drinking reporter determined to get to the truth at any cost.

Though computers have replaced typewriters, and the internet has changed the way news is reported, this satire on systemic corruption, manipulation and scandal in politics, journalism and justice still hits a nerve.

The plot twists and turns as much as its the ethically elastic characters, and the laugh-a-minute, rapid-paced script will get the adrenaline rushing.

“A joyous epic of self-discovery with plenty of heart” Limelight

ATLANTIS

by Lally Katz

19 March - 13 April

“A story is real. Hope is real. I see that now.”

A play about ovaries and climate change and pursuing your dreams.

Australian writer ‘Lally’ is on a quest to make sense of her life, seeking to rediscover the lost innocence of her childhood in America, when things were simple, carefree and defined.

Using both autobiographical fact and flights of imagination, the writer examines the turmoil of her personal situation within the context of a country gone crazy with excess and deception.

By turns self-deprecating, incurably romantic, optimistic and cynical, her journey through a maze of outrageous situations is hilarious and intoxicating.

Infused with a delicious blend of the real and the fantastical, this superb example of theatrical magic realism takes us on a wild adventure.

“One of the funniest and most exciting of American plays” New York Times

KATZ

BY JAMES GRAHAM BY SUZIE MILLER

HUMANS OF 2024

By Izzy Edwards

Next time you’re out and about in Newtown, we highly recommend taking a particular interest in the walls. Amongst the busy streets and secluded alleyways you may be lucky enough to spot a plastered piece of art by Alex McDonald. Known in the art scene by his pseudonym Absurdeus, Alex is bringing more joy and colour to Newtown by pasting his stunning art to the neighbourhood walls.

YYOUR name is very unique and lends a great insight into your work? How did you come up with it?

I came up with it while studying philosophy and creative writing at university. I was working on a collection of poetry and narrative prose where I would portray particular philosophical fields as Greek mythological figures. It’s a portmanteau of Absurdism and the character Odysseus. I adopted it as a pseudonym when I started doing paste-ups at the beginning of the pandemic. I’ve always felt glueing original oil paintings to walls is kind of ridiculous, so it seemed like a fitting alias for my street art.

Have you always been an artist? Where did it all begin for you?

There’s been a strong artistic and creative community around me for much of my life. My parents ran a studiogallery-residence called Art Unit back in the 80s, which is where I was born. I got really into visual arts about a decade ago. I was drawn to how effortlessly it allowed the weight of my thoughts to drift away. It’s such a great, meditative way to be present and get out of your own head for a while.

How would you describe your medium and style? What drew you to this form?

These days I almost exclusively work with oil paints and pallet knives in my paintings. I was drawn to the sensuality and texture of both the medium and technique of using blades rather than brushes. The extra sensory stimulation helps me to really get lost in the act of painting and embody a creative flow state absent of any higher thought.

Jnr mural. How do you feel your family’s association with art impacts your practice? Did it challenge you to take a new approach to street art?

I see my street art as more of a continuation and blending of both my parents’ approach. Mum painted a whole series of iconic murals around Erskineville, Newtown, and Enmore in the 90s. And Dad used to design and produce these wild triangle posters for exhibitions and gigs, which ended up pasted up around town.

Growing up in an artistic environment definitely made it easier to just take up a creative practice on a whim, regardless of field or medium, and pursue it for no more than the enjoyment it gives me to make something. My parents and their friends were a very positive example of the freedom, joy, and community that can come from art in that regard.Who or what is your biggest inspiration and/or mentor?

Probably my mum and my mental health, if I’m being honest. My single biggest motivation to paint is how peaceful I find it as a pastime. It’s incredibly meditative and helps me to emotionally regulate. Painting regularly makes it much easier for me to navigate all that life throws my way with a clearer, calmer mind.

Mum was a great source of inspiration for me to take up creative practice more consistently and follow it through for no more reason than to see where it might go. She couldn’t

stop herself from being creative and making art if she tried. She’s been artistically relentless and innovative longer than I’ve been around.

Lately, your plastered pieces have centred around vibrant floral designs. Why do you think this is the case?

I paint bright florals far, far more than anything else. I don’t want to think about what I’m painting, and I want to avoid as much higher thought as possible when I paint. I find thoughts get in the way of losing myself in process, and injures the therapeutic effect of being aimlessly artful as an act in itself.

Among the sheer variety of flowers can be found every colour, shape, and gesture. That’s why they became my goto subject matter. I don’t have to think about them, or at the very least they lend themselves to the meditative and expressive approach to painting I’ve come to enjoy so much in the last few years.

What’s your relationship to Sydney and the inner west?

I’ve lived most of my life in the Inner West. I’m actually named after the suburb of Alexandria, which is where I was born at Art Unit. I have a great affection for a lot of the suburbs around the Inner West, it was such an awesome place to grow up as a borderline feral street kid in the 80s and 90s.

How do you decide where to paste/share your art? What are your goals regarding changing the space they occupy?

When the pandemic began, a number of friends told me how much joy they were getting from discovering the nooks and crannies and little details hidden around the suburbs they lived in. I had dozens and dozens of works sitting around, so I figured I could help bring some novelty and brightness to the neighbourhood by sharing my art in public. It’s really all snowballed from there, I know it still brings a lot of happiness to people when they stumble upon my art scattered around the city

Over the years deciding where to put my art has become an extension of the same approach I take to the act of painting itself. It’s all about feeling, less about thinking. I’ll pick a suburb and then spend hours wandering around until walls or locations leap out and tickle my intuition, and then up goes a painting. I am trying to get out of my comfortable Inner West bubble more often these days though.

Is there anything else you would like our readers

to know - any future showcases, etc, you’d like to promote?

I’m currently curating an exhibition for GoodSpace Gallery at the Lord Gladstone in Chippendale on July 3rd, where I’ll be showing my stuff with several other local artists, alongside my mum’s new sculptural work. The best place to find my work or contact me is Instagram under the name Absurdeus. I’ve pasted up over 350 original oil paintings in public since early 2020, and don’t intend to stop anytime soon.

To keep up with Absurdeus and all of his artistic adventures, you can follow him on @absurdeus and keep an eye out for his artwork on the streets!

HAPPY HOUR

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If your wallet is looking worse for wear after the weekend that was, Coopers is your destination for midweek bargain bites. Cheap lunches on a Monday, and dinner specials

Tuesday + Wednesday. Once you’re finally recovered, pop in later in the week for epic drink specials and live entertainment almost every day!

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Saturday - $12 Cocktails from 6-8pm

Sunday - $25 Sunday Roast | $12 Cocktails from 6-8pm (Live music 3-6pm)

TEDDY’S ENMORE (upstairs at the Warren View Hotel)

2 Stanmore Rd, Enmore teddysenmore.com.au

Enjoy a Young Henrys Noble Cut Martini for $10 Every Wednesday at Teddys, whether you like it Dry, Dirty or Gibson the choice is yours!

CORRIDOR NEWTOWN

153A King St, Newtown corridornewtown.com.au

Proudly boasting Newtown’s happiest hour on their website - these guys know what’s up when it comes to a bargain. You can pop into Corridor any day of the week between 5-7pm to enjoy $10 pints, $15 jugs and $14 cocktails. The best part - there’s a different happy hour cocktail to choose from every day!

THE BANK HOTEL

324 King St, Newtown bankhotel.com.au

A Newtown institution, the Bank really looks after its locals. Head in Monday-Friday, from 4-6pm and splurge on $7.50 house wines and $6 schooners. For those with more distinguished palates, you can’t miss the Sunday specialdig into $40 Lobster and fries, paired with a crisp glass of wine.

THE STINKING BISHOPS

Shop 5/63-71 Enmore Rd, Newtown thestinkingbishops.com

Cheese lovers unite. The Stinking Bishops is home to 2042s best cheeses - all with kinds and rinds on offer. Pop in between 5-6pm Tuesday to Friday for their Wine & Cheese pairing Happy Hour! For only $40, you can sample 3 x cheeses, with 3 x matched wines. Or for $60, you can sample the premium selection (usually $80). Whilst you’re in store, check out some of the gorgeous Cheese & Wine pairing hampers on offer.

KELLY’S ON KING

285 King St, Newtown kellysnewtown.com.au

Kelly Gang unite! 285 King St is your one stop shop for an epic night out in Newtown. Not only is it home to Bootleggers, one of Newtown’s best live music venues, you can head in Monday - Saturday to grab a feed anytime before midnight. The famous Kelly Gang Happy Hour is on 7 days, 4-6pm, where you can enjoy 30% of drinks. But check out the amazing food specials that will fuel you for your night ahead:

Monday: $10 Pizza

Tuesday: $15 Burger

Wednesday: $15 Schnitty

TANYA PLIBERSEK

The Albanese Labor Government is legislating to give every Australian taxpayer a tax cut. Under our plan middle income earners will get a much larger tax cut, and low income earners, who were previously going to miss out altogether, will also receive relief.

Labor has changed Scott Morrison’s tax plan so we give more people a bigger tax cut to help with cost of living pressures.

We have found a way to give a tax cut right up and down the income scale but with an emphasis on middle Australia in a way that is good for the economy, good for cost of living pressures, good for women, nurses, truckies, teachers and workforce participation.

Every taxpayer gets a tax cut.

All 13.6 million taxpayers will receive a tax cut. That’s 2.9 million more than under Morrison’s plan. In fact, 84 per cent of Australians get a bigger tax cut than they would have under the proposal Scott Morrison legislated five years ago.

In addition, the Government will increase the income threshold for the Medicare Levy. For a single person earning $30,000 a year, it means they will keep an extra $170 in their pocket.

We've put people before politics. We've come to the right decision for the right reasons: the economic circumstances changed so we changed economic policy.

The Morrison tax plan was designed five years ago, before the pandemic, before the global inflation spike, before interest rate rises and greater global uncertainty.

A person earning $200,000 still gets a tax cut. They will receive $4,529.

In the Sydney Electorate this means 112,000 people will receive an average tax cut of $1,915.

Our plan is a more responsible way to ensure more people get a bigger tax cut to help ease the pressure they are under.

We plan for these changes to take effect on July 1. To find out how you will benefit, please use the calculator on the Treasury website: https://treasury.gov.au/tax-cuts/calculator

PETS OF 2042

GRANDPA COOKIE

GRANDPA - This little fella was found living on a golf course and was finally caught when he had an accidental fall into one of the on-course lakes. He wound up at the vets in front of his soon-to-be-Mum, who immediately fell in love. Conveniently for Grandpa, she is also a vet tech! Legally, because he was microchipped Grandpa, did make a trip to the pound, but as soon as his microchip hold was up - his new life began! Grandpa is about 9-10, can be a little bit nervous of men - but is a sweet and wonderful little man and he now enjoys his days being pampered and kept safe!

COOKIE - AKA Cookie the Wookie, is a pomeranian poodle (pomapoo) whose favourite thing in the world is to explore. He follows his nose everywhere and has even been trained to scent out specific smells. He has also done agility and is an accomplished trick performer. Cookie does struggle with anxiety and being scared of things; but take him somewhere new and he forgets all that and just enjoys himself.

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BANJO - This King Charles Cavalier is one of the most handsome, and friendliest boys around!

He loves all the kisses in all the world, but not as much as he loves treats. His favourite activity is cuddling with his mummy. He may have been the runt of the litter but he has made up for that with his huge personality. Banjo turns 2 on April 2nd and likes that he was a King Charles before King Charles became King Charles! His favourite park is Sydney Park, his doggy day care is Kip Marrickville which he loves and his favourite buddy is a Staffy/Labrador rescue pup named Young Henry.

COLIN - This 5 year old Greyhound considers himself a gentleman. He displays impeccable manners at all times, especially when soliciting chips from new friends at the pub. Colin’s average day includes around 22 hours of hardcore couch potatoing and one minute of speed noodling. The rest of the time he can be found politely demanding pats at Hollis Park. Enrol Today

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