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Communist Party of Australia banner produced at the time of the Kelly’s Bush green ban

In June 1971 the New South Wales Builders Labourers’ Federation imposed the world’s first green ban to protect an area of bushland called Kelly’s Bush on Sydney’s Lower North Shore. It began a movement that saved many important historical and public sites in Australia from development.

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National Museum of Australia

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