The Domain Sydney
Sprawling harbourside parkland once fenced off for a governor, later a stage for free speech and protest.
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This guide to The Domain in Sydney opens on a Sunday afternoon in 1878, when a preacher set up a soapbox on the grass and started shouting about Ireland, and traces how this once-walled governor's estate became the city's answer to Speakers Corner. It covers the Domain orators, the shanty towns that rose here during hard times, and the street brawls between communists and the New Guard in the 1920s and 30s. Find a patch of open grass and picture the crowds that once gathered to heckle or applaud.
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