Did a little work on my Great Antipodean AdVenture
idea...AVAD...A Very Australian Disturbance? Still working on that title and a set
of rules and just about everything... but got an idea, a freshly printed period union
banner and figures for the first scenario...
In the days following the NSW Governor-General’s dismissal
of Premier Lang’s Labor Government in May 1932 great unrest filled the streets
of not only Sydney but many of New South Wales rural communities.
Small and radical Political Groups fuelled discontent in every suburb and street. Many of the far left and right factions and societies believes Governor Games actions had given them a window of opportunity to simulate their European equivalents. The State authorities were quick to react to this but their entreaties for Australian Army troops to the Federal Government were tied up in the machinations of the Civil Service and would take time to come to fruition. This led to the arming of the Police, Fire Brigades and other Civil Authorities so there was muscle to keep the peace.
Led on by far Left Radicals the Australasian Engineering Union conceived a daring plan to rock the establishment, they would carry out a twilight raid on the Governor’s residence in the Botanic Gardens and substitute the Australian Flag with one of their Banners!
Small and radical Political Groups fuelled discontent in every suburb and street. Many of the far left and right factions and societies believes Governor Games actions had given them a window of opportunity to simulate their European equivalents. The State authorities were quick to react to this but their entreaties for Australian Army troops to the Federal Government were tied up in the machinations of the Civil Service and would take time to come to fruition. This led to the arming of the Police, Fire Brigades and other Civil Authorities so there was muscle to keep the peace.
Led on by far Left Radicals the Australasian Engineering Union conceived a daring plan to rock the establishment, they would carry out a twilight raid on the Governor’s residence in the Botanic Gardens and substitute the Australian Flag with one of their Banners!
As the shadows grew longer on the evening of May 20 1932 an
unruly mob entered the Botanic Gardens from the north and moved furtively south
towards Government House but little did they know that just that afternoon the
Chief of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade had due to the absence of Federal
Military troops being available deployed a section of fully armed Firemen to
patrol the grounds of the Botanic Gardens to keep an eye out for revolutionary
types and incendiaries...
Fire Chief Archibald Smith...
The Firemen deployed to patrol the Botanic gardens and defend Government house...
The unruly mob composed of members of the Australasian Engineering Union...
A close up of some mob the unruly mob and their banner man!
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