Perfect placement of 3 items on Sydney Uni's staff page today: one celebrating Mardi Gras (which started with a militant 1978 protest), one celebrating the Freedom Ride of 1965, one on new Campus Access Policy which curtails protest on campus. Protest is great as long as it's in the past, I guess?

We focus in particular on a story from the archives about the initial efforts to 'underground' telephone wires in the 1890s, and how the conflict over that process - especially its labour and its impacts on the surface - have shaped urban governance ever since.