Sydney Domain Speakers Corner

Since the 1950 s religious zealots nutters political extremists homophobes hippies and academics have been climbing atop their soapboxes and shouting well anything and everything they feel.

Sydney domain speakers corner. John spoke in london s hyde park and in sydney s domain. For more historical photographs of speakers corner in the domain and in hyde park london go to victor zammit s site pictures htm stephen maxwell has been a speaker at the domain for more than thirty years. Impassioned speakers declared points of view on politics sexuality or religion while punters young and old came to be entertained informed or to join in the debate this exhibition features the work of two sydney photographers raymond de berquelle and. Speakers corner in the sydney domain began in 1878 when pastor daniel allen of the particular baptist church in castlereagh street sydney spoke there expounding his baptist social reform ideals.

We are very fortunate to have him. Speakers corner in the sydney domain began in 1878 when. For more of webster. Come listen to the soapbox speakers in sydney s domain every sunday from 2pm until 5pm.

Since 1878 the domain has acted as the home of so called free speech in sydney acting as a barometer for public public opinion speakers corner was an important political forum of the day. Aboriginal speakers were active there from the late 1930s including civil rights campaigners such as jack patten tom foster pearl gibbs and william bill ferguson. Speakers corner sydney sydney australia. The sydney tradition sees so called soapbox speakers perch themselves on top of ladders and pit their ideas against those of the crowd criticism and heckling are commonplace and often encouraged.

For almost a century speakers corner in sydney s domain provided a forum for individuals to exercise freedom of speech. 220 likes 8 talking about this. 1972 documentary on soapbox orator john webster. Here is an excerpt from his absorbing book the history of soapbox oratory.

Speakers corner was established in the eastern end of the domain near the art gallery of nsw in 1878. Directly opposite the nsw art. Just over the road from the art gallery of nsw on the fringe of the domain is speaker s corner. There is a speakers corner in the domain in sydney established in 1878.

The speakers talk every sunday afternoon from 2 pm until 5 pm and have a website. He has written a book on the subject travelled to many speakers corners throughout the world and participated he is the author of steve maxwell s passing parade and he has spoken at sydney s speakers corner for yonks. 2 reviews of speaker s corner wanna get yelled at and lectured by a series of madmen on milk crates.