"It's 40 years since the Builders Labourers' Federation imposed green bans across the inner city of Sydney. Meredith Burgmann looks back on the lessons of the green bans era for urban environmentalists today.
Forty years ago a small labourers' trade union executive made a decision that was to change the face of environmental activism around the world and save Sydney from much of the massive overdevelopment of the 1970s..."
