Women and the Struggle Against Brisbane's Freeways

Windsor twenty‐five years on: The continuing presence of a 1970s freeway plan in inner Brisbane

“…The compensation difficulties that Windsor residents experienced were vocalised politically through a protest group, the Brisbane Freeway Protest and Compensation Committee (BFPCC) (Mullins, 1977(Mullins, , 1979a(Mullins, , 1979b1987). However, the views and actions of the dominant non-resident faction of this group overwhelmed residents' abilities to direct the groups' actions.…”

“…Finally, widespread citizen opposition had persuaded governments of the damaging social effects of freeway construction. Brisbane's anti freeway movement had emerged in the late 1960s in response to the Southeast Freeway and the Story Bridge Expressway, but it was reignited in 1972 by the announcement of the Northern Freeway (Mullins, 1977b(Mullins, , 1979a(Mullins, , 1979b(Mullins, , 1987. When it became clear in 1975 that Brisbane's freeway system, and the Northern Freeway in particular, had stalled, the anti freeway movement turned its attention solely to promoting public transport (National Action for Public Transport, cl976).…”

“…The University of Queensland's Department of Anthropology and Sociology undertook the SIA and this was conducted as a detailed community study over 1972-74 (Mullins, 1973(Mullins, , 1976(Mullins, , 1977a(Mullins, , 1977b(Mullins, , 1979a(Mullins, , 1979b(Mullins, , 1987. Since the SIA, as a technique, had not been formulated at that time, two now classic sociological studies of traditional working class communities provided the conceptual basis for this research.…”

The Oracles Of Delfin: Women And Suburban Developments

“…This work has highlighted the ways in which women live in cities in particular ways, different from men. In Australia, comparable work has examined how economic and demographic restructuring has impacted on women in the city (Harman, 1983), considered women's access to housing (Allport, 1983;Watson, 1988;Pabian, 1992), employment and services (Howe and O'Connor, 1982;Fincher, 1991;WISH, 1991;Winchester, 1992) as well as their political activism (Mullins, 1979;Fincher and McQuillan, 1989) and their concerns for design and security (WISH, 1991;Johnson, 1992). In addition, more recent work has highlighted the differentiation of women along lines of class, age and ethnicity (WISH, 1991;Winchester, 1992;Johnson, 1994;Thompson, 1994).…”

Women in Urban Social Movements

“…It is surprising conceptually, too, because the community origins and collective-consumption orientation of urban social movements would seem to tie the movements to concerns usually attributed to women, in the time since early capitalism when the separation of home and workplace became commonplace (see Mackenzie and Rose, 1983). Indeed, some writers have treated urban collective action as an "extension" of women's activities in the home or sphere of consumption, in explaining the large presence of women in those protests (Dabrowski, 1983;Kaplan, 1982;Lawson and Barton, 1980;Mullins, 1977).…”