The Hungry Mile and 'Maritime Invisibility'

Rowan Cahill, University of Wollongong

Abstract

This is a 12pp. pamphlet published by the Sydney Branch of the Matritme Union of Australia (MUA). The author addresses the historic silence regarding the contributions of maritime workers to the history of Australia. His discussion focuses on Sydney's legendary waterfront precinct known as 'The Hungry Mile'. This pamphlet later became the basis of Chapter 47 in the Irving/Cahill book "Radical Sydney" (UNSW Press, 2010), pp. 335-347.