Community life and social activism, Newcastle, New South Wales, 3 December 2008-10 March 2011 / photographs by Bernadette Smith

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3 December 2008-10 March 2011

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33 photographs - digital, TIFFs, colour

Bernadette Smith is a Sydney artist working within painting and photomedia.

33 digital photographs documenting community life in Newcastle, New South Wales. Includes images of the CFMEU, Communist Party of Australia and other trade union and community groups highlighting issues such as climate change, banks, coal mining, workplace safety, the sale of electricity generators and the removal of fig trees from the local area.

Item 01: Trade unions protest unsafe workplaces and deaths from industrial accidents at Civic Park in Newcastle, New South Wales, 3 December 2008 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 02: Trade unions protest unsafe workplaces and deaths from industrial accidents at Civic Park in Newcastle, New South Wales, 3 December 2008 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 03: Trade unions protest unsafe workplaces and deaths from industrial accidents at Civic Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 3 December 2008 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 04: Hunter Street West near Union Street in Newcastle, New South Wales, 6 February 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 05: Spring tide at Newcastle Ocean Baths, Newcastle, New South Wales, 17 March 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 06: Bathers at the convict-built Bogey Hole, near King Edward park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 17 March 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 07: Participants wait for May Day March in Pacific Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 08: Participants wait for May Day March to begin in Pacific Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 09: Participants prepare for May Day March in Hunter Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 10: May Day marchers in Hunter Street Mall, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 11: May Day marchers proceed along Hunter Street Mall, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 12: May Day participants march past Civic Park along King Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 13: May Day marchers along King Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 14: May Day marchers along King Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 15: May Day supporters of maintaining Newcastle rail line march along King Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 16: Communists outside Centrelink in King Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, after May Day March, 2 May 2009 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 17: Newcastle harbour coal blockade at Horseshoe Beach, New South Wales, 28 March 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 18: Newcastle harbour coal blockade at Horseshoe Beach, New South Wales, 28 March 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 19: Overlooking Nobby’s Beach and lighthouse from Fort Scratchley, Newcastle, New South Wales, 24 May 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 20: Wrapping trees with ribbons to protest council ordered destruction of figs in Laman Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 7 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 21: Two families surround a fig tree scheduled for council removal adjacent Civic Park on Laman Street, Newcastle, New South Wales, 7 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 22: Crossing on Laman Street between Civic Park and Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 23: Gathering signatures for community petition to save Laman Street fig trees in Civic Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 24: Community vigil to save Laman Street figs outside Newcastle Library, Newcastle, New South Wales, 26 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 25: Dixon Park Beach promenade looking towards Merewether Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, 16 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 26: Residents tie ribbons and soft toys around Laman Street figs outside Newcastle Library, Newcastle, New South Wales, to protest the slated removal of these trees, 27 September 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 27: Horseshoe Beach Road cyclists adjacent Horseshoe Beach, Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 October 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 28: Saudi university student with photographer Bernadette Smith at Foreshore Park, Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 October 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 29: Family fishing next to Wharf Road, Newcastle Harbour in Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 October 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 30: Peter Kennedy and companions attend the 90th anniversary commemoration of the founding of the Communist Party of Australia, Newcastle Trades Hall Council, New South Wales, 28 November 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 31: Lecture commemorating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Communist party of Australia, Newcastle Trades Hall Council, New South Wales, 28 November 2010 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 32: Cyclists and skate boarders in Empire Park skate ramp opposite Bar Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 March 2011 / photograph by Bernadette Smith
Item 33: Skate boarder in Empire Park skate ramp opposite Bar Beach in Newcastle, New South Wales, 10 March 2011 / photograph by Bernadette Smith

In copyright:
Copyright holder:: Bernadette Smith
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy Bernadette Smith

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