{"id":1390,"date":"2016-12-12T17:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T03:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/?page_id=1390"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T02:50:02","slug":"1390-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/1390-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shady Acres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However modern we might feel, corruption is a pre-existing and ongoing fact of Sydney life. Certainly this is the implication of Lesley Muir\u2019s marvellous book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 Elizabeth Farrelly<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The early years of the New South Wales Government reads like a \u2018who\u2019s who\u2019 of 19th century corrupt politicians\u2014in many ways echoing the more recent scandals that have cast a shadow over the State. Lesley Muir\u2019s new book, <em>Shady Acres<\/em>, takes us on an illustrated tour through the Henry Parkes and John Robertson era which saw massive transport and land developments, expansions which became the foundations of modern Sydney. Beneath the dazzle of these prosperous transformations Lesley Muir demonstrates that the NSW Government made its planning decisions to suit the interest of developers\u2014decisions which Sydney is living with to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The sheer magnitude of the transformation of Sydney and its outskirts since the 19th century is startling; the transformation of the NSW government\u2014or lack thereof\u2014even more so. This all too familiar subject of development scandals and widespread political corruption shows how vested interests set the agenda, constructing modern Sydney on a patchwork of shady acres<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>About the author<\/h4>\n<p>Dr Lesley Muir, Senior Vice President of the Royal Australian Historical Society and professional historian, died in 2012. This book is based on years of profound and forensic research which brought the extent of NSW Government corruption in the 19th century to light. She died with her work nearly finished. Her husband, Brian Madden and colleague and friend, Joy Hughes, then prepared the manuscript for publication<\/p>\n<h4>Reviews<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halsteadpress.com.au\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ARH_August-2017_pp29-30.pdf\">Australian Railway History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; However modern we might feel, corruption is a pre-existing and ongoing fact of Sydney life. 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