Newcastle
The Lives and Times of a City
“An affectionate and information-packed picture of a great city.”
- Bob Hudson
“Australian penal station to begin with, Newcastle was the exemplar of an Australian industrial city, a dirty old town of ferocious political loyalties, smiling through the coal dust, keeping secrets close and making small claims for its secretly cherished treasures. Newcastle has been a brutal arena of great conflicts between Labor and the Communist party, and on its brow one reads the unadorned drafts of Australian history and, one hopes, Australian survival and climate hopes.”
- Tom Keneally
“It’s a wonderful collection of all the stories, big and small, that are a part of Newcastle’s fabric…The book is a conversation starter to get us all thinking about what we love about our city now, what needs to change, what we want our city to be in the future and how we want to get there.”
- Dr Ross Kerridge, Lord Mayor of Newcastle
“To everyone who has lived, loved or had a passing interest in Newcastle the book is great.”
- Marcus Westbury, Renew Newcastle founder