Before he was abducted, Arthurhad arranged a meeting between the Victoria Street residents' group and the NSW Builders Labourers Federation (BLF) the radical branch of one of the country's most powerful unions. Arthur had organised a group of about 50 neighbours to oppose a developer's plans to knock down their homes on Victoria Street in Kings Cross. Juanita Nielsen never joined the residents group, but she owned a local newspaper, NOW, which fiercely defended the residents and opposed Theeman's plans for her street. I cradled her up to my shoulder. The BLF had already supported community groups across Sydney trying to stop the destruction of sites for environmental or heritage reasons. But they dont get that opportunity because their mother couldnt stand their crying., Last month, as she contemplated a life behind bars, it was Waneta Hoyts turn to weep. Sky-high apartment towers and modernist concrete office buildings began popping up all over the city. Arthur left that day and never returned to live in Kings Cross. "In one day we were all hauled out and arrested. What unfolded over the next two days became known as the "Victoria Street Siege" and it marked a turning point for the street. By some strange coincidence I caught this movie on the same day that I saw "Lord Jeff"(1938), from M-G-M. "There's too much money around," Victoria Street resident, Juanita Nielsen, said at the time. Says Vanek: I thought, three in a row? Later in the fight for the street, Bacon says someone left an orchid at her door on Valentine's Day which contained a bullet and a message: "Have a good day, but avoid barbershops". Aventuras de un yanki (1942) - IMDb Arthur King had lived in the Cross for three years before his kidnapping. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Planning reforms in the 60s by NSW Liberal premier Robert Askin gave developers enormous power and stripped the rights of tenants. "What it does is reserves the most favoured areas for the wealthy. One showed Arthur a wad of bills amounting to $5000 which he says they'd been paid to get him out of the way for a few days. Tim Norman's Current Girlfriend {Juanitra} Says he reminded her of her Things ramp up further when the powerful union boss Jack Mundey steps in and imposes a series of green bans. Two and a half days after they first arrived, they drove back to the city. See production, box office & company info, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Hear more of the fresh leads into Juanita Nielsen's disappearancein the ABC's new true-crime podcast,Unravel: Juanita. "It was the first time this had happened in a generation," says Ian Milliss, who joined the squatters from his house at the bottom of Victoria Street. Date apprehended. "It really became very intense. He lay there for several days as the two men talked on the phone, watched TV and listened to the radio. Waneta met Tim Hoyt on a school bus in ninth grade. Forty-eight days later, confessed Waneta, she killed him. In Victoria Street today, the former Crest Hotel opposite Kings Cross Station has been replaced by the polished mint green tiles of the new Omnia apartment building, just metres from the iconic neon Coca Cola sign. Then, very early on the morning of January 3rd, 1974, the squatters got word of something big. Through his peephole in the boot, Arthur says he saw the men had parked outside the Venus Room the Kings Cross club run by Jim Anderson, a right-hand man of notorious crime boss Abe Saffron.

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