‘Death Cults’,Murdering a Police Officer,and the First World War

See Part 5.3 Criminal Code (Cth), especially s 104 (control orders), and for discussion see, eg, Bradley Michael , ‘Anti-terror laws: Control order plan takes us closer to a police state’, ABC News, 15 October 2015 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-15/bradley-control-orders-a-step-closer-to-police-state/6855636>.

Turner Ian , Sydney's Burning (Alpha Books, 1969) 6–7.

Metrolyrics, ‘Joe Hill’ (Joan Baez Lyrics) <http://www.metrolyrics.com/joe-hill-lyrics-joan-baez.html>.

See generally Day Rowan , The Tottenham Rebels: Radical Labour Politics in a Small Mining Town during the Great War (PhD thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2014) 107–8. Strictly only wage workers could join the IWW; see Fry E C , Tom Barker and the IWW (Australian Society for the Study of Labour History, 1965) 20, but they certainly associated closely with middle-class rebels such as Lesbia Keogh and Guido Baracchi: See Sparrow Jeff , Communism: A Love Story (Melbourne University Press, 2007) especially at 70–1.

Day, above n 4, 25, quoting Humphrey McQueen, ‘Shoot the Bolshevik! Hang the Profiteer! Reconstructing Australian Capitalism, 1918–1921’, in Wheelwright E L & Buckley Ken (eds), Essays in the Political Economy of Australian Capitalism, Volume 2 (Australia & New Zealand Book Co, 1978) 185.

Day, above n 4, 156, and Turner, above n 2, 20.

Cain Frank , ‘Biography and Ideology in the Industrial Workers of the World in Australia 191 I-1922: A Brief Review’ (ASSLH Conference, 2011) 236, quoted in Day, above n 4, 156–7

Cain Frank , The Wobblies at War: A History of the IWW and the Great War in Australia (Spectrum, 1993), 229, quoted in Day, above n 4, 157.

Cain Frank , The Origins of Political Surveillance in Australia (Angus & Robertson, 1983), 7–8, referred to in Day, above n 4, 158.

Turner, above n 2, 35–7.

Patten John , Ned Kelly's Ghost: The Tottenham IWW and the Tottenham Tragedy (Kate Sharpley Library, 1997) 4.

This was in December 1916: see Turner, above n 2, 58–9.

Day, above n 4, 28–9, quoting Hearn Mark and Knowles Harry , One Big Union: A History of the Australian Workers Union 1886–1994 (Cambridge University Press, 1996) 123.

Day, above n 4, 77.

Direct Action, quoted in Day, above n 4, 79.

Patten, above n 11, 6–8.

Ibid 10; see also Day, above n 4, 181–2.

Patten, above n II, 10.

Ibid 12. A hole in the window sash was made by the .38 calibre bullet.

Ibid 13.

Ibid 15.

See Day, above n 4, 232–3, for a discussion of the possibility that Herb was in fact the real ringleader.

Patten, above n 11, 18.

‘Truth’, 3 December 1916, quoted in Patten, above n 11, 18. See also Day, above n 4, 216.

Fitzgerald J D , ‘Studies in Australian Crime’ (Cornstalk Publishing, 1924) 145. Fitzgerald was a member of the NSW Legislative Council, and part of the cabinet meeting which considered the death sentences against Franz and Kennedy: Day, above n 4, 10 and Patten, above n 11,20.

Commonwealth, Parliamentary Debates, Senate, 19 December 1916, 10169 (Thomas Bakhap).

Patten, above n II, 19.

Day, above n 4, 288.

NSWSR, 7/5590, Kevin Kennedy to Jeanette Kennedy, quoted in Day, above n 4, 213.

Turner, above n 2, 87, 89.

According to Day, this novel was ‘written partly in response to the case in Russia in which a young student was murdered by a radical and in many senses fanciful group headed by Sergey Nechaev, who had been an associate of Mikhail Bakunin’: Day, above n 4, 287.

Coetzee J M , The Master of Petersburg (Vintage Books, London, 2004) 42–6.