 right|300px|thumb|the royal george building in april, 2004. it has been renamed the slip inn. the sydney push met in the "back room", a little above ground floor, at left. the sydney push was a predominantly left-wing intellectual subculture in sydney from the late 1940s to the early 1970s. well known associates of the push include jim baker, john flaus, harry hooton, margaret fink, sasha soldatow,a 1970s associate, subject of david marr's a spirit gone to another place the sydney morning herald obituary, 9 september 2006 lex banning, eva cox, richard appleton, paddy mcguinness, david makinson, germaine greer, clive james, robert hughes, frank moorhouse and lillian roxon. from 1961 to 1962, poet les murray resided in brian jenkins's push householdalexander peter f. les murray: a life in progress, oxford university press uk, 2000 at glen street, milsons point, which became a mecca for associates visiting sydney from melbourne and other cities. the push operated in a pub culture and comprised a broad range of manual workers, musicians, lawyers, criminals, journalists and public servants as well as staff and students of sydney universityâpredominantly though not exclusively in the faculty of arts. rejection of conventional morality and authoritarianism formed their main common bond. from the mid-1960s, people from the new south wales university of technology (later renamed the university of new south wales) also became involved. ==academic contributors== amongst the key intellectual figures in push debates were philosophers david j. ivison, george molnar, roelof smilde, darcy waters and jim baker, as recorded in baker's memoir sydney libertarians and the push, published in the libertarian broadsheet in 1975.see baker a j "sydney libertarianism and the push" or at "sydney libertarians and the push" on prof. w l morison memorial site other active people included psychologists terry mcmullen and geoff whiteman, educationist david ferraro, june wilson, les hiatt, ian bedford, ken maddock and alan olding, among many others listed in the article. an understanding of sydney libertarian values and social theory can be obtained from their publications, a few of which are available online.articles and essays of and by sydney libertarians[http://marxists.architexturez.net/h
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