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Pre - Invasion (before 1788)
Aboriginal Australians as Anarchists.....Bob James


1788 to 1800
Pemulwuy - Indigenous resistance leader for the Eora........Question Mark Collective


1801 to 1850
Yagan - Indigenous resistance leader for the Nyungar........Question Mark Collective
The flogging of a Master - Bushranging as Class Struggle 1836....Question Mark Collective
The Story of GUOOF and Traveller's Home in the 1840's and 1850's .....by Dr Bob James


1851 to 1880
Sailor's riot in Sydney 1851....Question Mark Collective
Peter Lalor and the miners' Eureka Stockade........Question Mark Collective
Ned Kelly - Bush ranging resistance to the Squatocracy........Question Mark Collective
Maritime Strike 1878-1879........Anarchist Media Institute


1881 to 1900
A Reader of Australian Anarchism 1886-1896....Bob James (Ed.)
The beginnings of May Day in Australia....Joe Toscano
The Haymarket Affair 'Down under'.....Michael Vandelaar
Progress of Anarchism at the Melbourne Wharf 1889.....J.W. Fleming
Women in the Early Anarchist Movement.....Bob James
Melbourne Anarchist Club Notes 1889.....Honesty
Maritime Strike 1890........Anarchist Media Institute
News from Australia 1891.....J.Schellenberg
Cooperation as a Remedy (Pyrmont Laundry Strike) 1891.....Creo Stanley
Wily Wheelwomen of the 1890s....Question Mark Collective


1901 to 1920
Chummy Fleming & the opening of the first Australian Parliament....Takver
Emma Goldman: the Australian connection.....Bob James
International Notes (May Day 1910).....J.W. Fleming
Politics and Parliament 1913.....Monty Miller
The I.W.W. in Australia....Mark McGuire
Joe Hill's ashes in Australia........Question Mark Collective
IWW in Aotearoa....Frank Prebble
1913 General Strike in Aotearoa....Frank Prebble
The Passing of Parliament 1916.....Monty Miller
Lilian Tiering in the IWW....Ken Weller
William Siebenhaar defends Monty Miller....Ian Turner
'Ma' Westbrook and the IWW.....Ian Turner
Paul Freeman - killed at Kursk 1921.....Tom Barker


1921 to 1940
The proletarian migrants: fascism and Italian Anarchists in Australia....Gianfranco Cresciani
L'avanguardia Libertaria (Italian Paper 1932)....
The Unemployed Workers Movement in Melbourne - 1920's-1930's....Jim Munro
Raised a Radical - the Englarts in Brisbane 1920-1939....Vince Englart
Homegrown Communism - recollections of the YCL in 1930s Brisbane....Ron Brown
1934 Canecutters' strike in North Queensland....Peter Sheldon from Rebel Worker


1941 to 1960
A Sermon for Madmen (1941)....Max Harris
The Necessity for Surrealism (1941)....James Gleeson
Brisbane 1946 - Workers' Control on the wharf .....Takver
Squatting after World War II - 1946-1947....Question Mark Collective
The Queensland Railway Strike 1948....Doug Olive
The Politics of Things (1955)....Harry Hooton
John Olday's Memoirs in Australia ....ca
Sydney Libertarianism and the Push....A.J. Baker
Bulgarian Anarchists in Sydney....Bob James


1961 to 1970
Moralism and the C.P.A. - the 1962 Peace March....Question Mark Collective
Vietnam Moratorium Sydney 1970 ....w.b.
'Save the Lemmings' Melbourne 1970 ....anon.


1971 to 1980
Australian Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War (1971)....Michael Matteson & Geoff Mullen
Sex and Censorship - 1971 ....Wendy Bacon
Stop the F19 Freeway Campaign....Julie New
Ford Riot at Broadmeadows - 1972....Question Mark Collective
Anarcho Surrealist Insurrectionary Feminist Manifesto - AS IF (Melbourne 1973) ....AS IF Collective
Anarchism and Feminism (1974)....anon.
Feminism and Men - 1975....Chris Nicol
Autonomous House - Alternative Technology (Sydney 1975) ....Friends of the Earth
Towards an anarchist organisation and programme (1974)....anon.
The organisational platform of the Federation of Australian Anarchists (1975)....anon.
Brisbane SMG statement on the 1975 conference and proposed 1976 conference (1975)....Brisbane SMG
Theses against Seperatism (1975)....anon.
The Split - a Monash Anarchist Perspective (1976)....anon.
Chrysler Factory at Tonsley Park (Adelaide) 1976-1978....Garry Hill
Anarchism in Sydney 1975-1981....John Englart
925 - working class poetry (1978-1983)....Takver


1981 to 1990
What is this Gay Community Shit? - The Sydney Gay Mardi Gras and the Left....Sasha Soldatow
On Lesbian Separatism - Women wimmin womyn womin whippets....Julie McCrossin
Anarchism in New Zealand - 1982 ... Letter to Freedom
1984 & Social Control Conference
'The State and the Explanation Of Nuclear Technology' (1984 & Social Control Conference) ....Val Plumwood
Community Arts and Politics (1985)....Dwayne Campbell
'A New Anarchism' - Examining 100 years of Australian Anarchism....Bob James
1986 Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations Conference
Anarcho-Feminist Celebrations - 1986 Camp
A voter takes direct action.....Anon.
1989 Beyond Social Control Conference
The Melbourne Tram Dispute and Lockout of 1990....Dick Curlewis
1990 Anarchist Organisation & Strategy Conference


1991 to 2000
Anarchism in Aotearoa - 1995 ...The State Adversary
War on the Wharfies 1998 (February - August 1998)....Takver
March 1998: Direct Action Jamboree, Melbourne....Various
Anarchist anti-election campaign - 1998
Melbourne Support for a Free East Timor - September 1999....Takver
Protests against World Economic Forum at Melbourne Crown Casino September 11 - 13, 2000....Takver


2001 to 2010
No Gods No Masters anarchist & Autonomist conference - April 2001....Takver
MayDay 2001 and the ghost of Chummy Fleming....Takver
2001 July: Red & Black Forum on Anti-Capitalist Currents (Sydney)....Various
2001 August: Liberty Autonomy Solidarity: Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Conference (Wollongong)....
2001: an Anarchist Odyssey (Christchurch).... fromThr@ll
Election 2001 - For Direct Democracy not Parliamentary Rule....Various
April 2002 - From Resurgence to Insurgence - Sydney Anarchist & Autonomist Conference.

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Some of the articles from Anarchism in Australia have been included in the above timeline, others haven't. Scabs, Coppers, Strikes and Footy was not included above as it covers numerous time periods.

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