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George Negus Tonight looks at how our past has shaped our present and is continuing to influence the Australian lifestyle and define our contemporary society.

Coming up on GNT History:

Monday November 22, 2004, 6.30pm

Bugga Up (Smoking History)
We meet the BUGA-UP paint-bombers, recalling their campaign against cigarette advertising in the late 1970s. Spray cans in hand; the small team of vandals were determined to cleverly deface billboards promoting cigarettes.

Kings Cross
Kings Cross is one big diversion. The prostitutes are still there, so are the drugs despite numerous clean-up campaigns, but a lot has changed over the years. Long-time residents say the bohemian atmosphere of the sixties and seventies is all but gone. Many artists have been forced out by rising real estate prices and most of the old entertainment venues like Les Girls have closed down. Outlasting them all is a tiny, run down coffee shop called the Piccolo, where you can still catch a whiff of bohemian attitude.

Strike
Songwriters Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody tell the story behind their song "From Little Things Big Things Grow". In the 1960s, Aboriginal stockmen went on strike at the NT Wave Hill station. Led by Gurindji man Vincent Lingiari, they walked off the job and set up a camp at a place called Wattie Creek. The dispute over wages and conditions turned into a demand for land rights. It dragged on for years before eventually being resolved by the Whitlam government.

Port Arthur Ghosts
In 1833 Tasmania’s Port Arthur became a prison settlement for male convicts. Hundreds died in those early decades, but some wonder if a few of those old souls haven’t stuck around.
Tour Guide Todd Darling believes there are ghosts and says, “You have to wonder how it is that people who don’t know each other and don’t know the story, from different places in the world, have come and seen the same thing ten years apart.”



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