The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator was a Sydney newspaper published between 1848 and 1856.
19-643: (Redirected from Angus MacKay ) Angus McKay , MacKay or Mackay may refer to: Politicians [ edit ] Angus Mackay (Victorian politician) (1824–1866), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Angus Mackay (Queensland politician) (1834–1910), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly Angus McKay (Manitoba politician) (1836–1910), Canadian politician; first aboriginal Canadian elected to
38-637: A "people's candidate" in the Legislative Council elections of that year. Inspired by Chartist ideas, The People's Advocate became the unofficial mouthpiece for the Constitutional Association. It supported radical voices like Daniel Deniehy , Charles Harpur , Adelaide Ironside , Robert Lowe and John Dunmore Lang . It also acted as a foil to the squatting and mercantile focus of The Sydney Morning Herald . Terry Irving called The People's Advocate "the most famous radical paper of
57-502: The People’s Advocate in 1848 marked a distinct change in the nature, language and attitude of Australian radical print. It was the first colonial paper to demand that the workers, as producers of all wealth, receive a fairer share of labour’s produce, which its banner quote from Alphonse de Lamartine proclaimed every week: " Political economy has hitherto occupied itself about the production of wealth. It must now occupy itself about
76-514: The distribution of wealth ; so that the labourer may no longer be left without his fair share of the produce." The People's Advocate was established by Edward John Hawksley and the Sydney printer Francis Cunninghame. Cunninghame had previously been the editor of the Sydney Citizen but Hawksley, an English Catholic radical, wrote the majority of the paper's editorial content. The first issue
95-559: The 13th Century by Edward Reeve (1851), a play in verse, which was well received by several critics. The play was staged nearly a century later by May Hollinworth at Sydney's Metropolitan Theatre . The partnership was dissolved in January 1852, although Cunninghame continued to publish the paper from his printery in King Street. Edward John Hawksley (1807 – 2 July 1875) was a Unitarian who converted to Catholicism , and fought with
114-701: The British Legion in the Spanish Carlist Wars . After his arrival in Sydney he was employed as a teacher, became warden of the Sydney Holy Catholic Guild (1848), and wrote religious pamphlets. He edited and published the Sydney Chronicle (1846-1847) and the short-lived Daily News with Charles St Julian before working with Francis Cunninghame on the People's Advocate . From 1863-1870 Hawkesley
133-655: The Canadian House of Commons Angus McKay (Ontario politician) (1852–1916), physician and politician in Ontario, Canada Angus MacKay (Scottish politician) (born 1964), Member of the Scottish Parliament Others [ edit ] Angus Mackay, 6th of Strathnaver (died 1403) Angus MacKay (actor) (1926–2013), British actor Angus McKay, a minor character in the BBC Scottish TV drama Monarch of
152-612: The Glen Gus Mackay (Angus, born 1967), Zimbabwean cricketer Angus Mackay (historian) (born 1939), Scottish historian Angus MacKay (piper) (1813–1859), Scottish bagpipe player Angus MacKay (1840–1931), superintendent of the Indian Head Experimental Farm Angus MacKay (racing driver) (born 1946), British former auto racing driver [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with
171-604: The family settled into rented accommodation at 60 Susannah Place , The Rocks , where their next child, another daughter Ellen, was born in 1844. The family’s home has been preserved and now forms part of the Museum of The Rocks, with the living room and bedroom of the dwelling decorated in the style typical of the 1840s. Before starting The People's Advocate , Francis Cunninghame acted as the shipping reporter at The Australasian Chronicle between 1842 and 1848. In 1847 Cunninghame worked with William Vernon and William Kennedy to publish
190-734: The following year joined in purchasing the Bendigo Advertiser , subsequently assisting his co-partners in starting the McIvor Times and the Riverine Herald . Mackay was returned to the Victorian Assembly for Sandhurst in March 1868, and held the seat until April 1877. He again represented Sandhurst from July 1877 to February 1880 and from July 1883 February 1886. From 9 April 1870 to 19 June 1871 and 10 June 1872 to 7 August 1875 Mackay
209-437: The period". In the tumultuous period between the unrest of 1848 and the establishment of New South Wales' representative government in 1856, it was E.J. Hawksley and The People's Advocate , more than any other paper, that pushed the case for democratic reforms. Don Baker writes that Lang understood the weight that The People's Advocate 's reputation carried among the radical constituency. So despite his anti-Catholic rhetoric, it
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#1732872382272228-580: The radical paper The Citizen , which had begun operation the previous year. With the start of the NSW gold rush , Cunninghame left for the Turong Goldfields. In 1851, in both August and September the Advocate published letters from him on life in the goldfields. After the partnership with Hawksley ended, Cunninghame continued as printer, taking over the premises of Thomas Trood at 113 King Street, Sydney. In 1869
247-524: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angus_McKay&oldid=951936693 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Angus Mackay (Victorian politician) Angus Mackay (26 January 1824 – 5 July 1886)
266-458: Was Minister of Mines . He was married; they had two sons, and three daughters. The People%27s Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator was a newspaper that advocated on issues of importance for the working classes of New South Wales . It played a prominent part of the political scene in Sydney from 1848 until 1856. The appearance of
285-605: Was a founder of the radical Constitutional Association in 1848 before becoming a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia) , as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly . Mackay was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of Murdoch Mackay and his wife Elizabeth, née MacLeod. Mackay was taken to Sydney , N.S.W., by his parents when only three years old. He was educated at the Australian College, and
304-684: Was employed at the Government Printing Office, before retiring to Fiji where he died in 1875. Hawksley's daughter, Eliza, married the widowed St Julian and settled in Fiji too. Francis Cunninghame (c. 1813 – 14 May 1884) was an Irish printer who emigrated to the colony with his wife, Ellen, and daughter, arriving on the Arkwright on 8 February 1840. His first work was to print the Sydney Morning Herald . Not long after arriving in Sydney,
323-736: Was intended for the Presbyterian ministry, but became a schoolmaster, and meanwhile contributed to the Australian Magazine and also to the Atlas, a Sydney paper, established by Mr. Robert Lowe (now Viscount Sherbrooke). In 1847 he became editor of the Atlas, but resigned in 1850 to become manager of a business belonging to Henry Parkes at Geelong, Victoria. Returning to Sydney, he was attached to The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator , but again took up his residence in Victoria in 1853, and in
342-528: Was published in December 1848. One month earlier, Edward Hawksley, in collaboration with Henry Parkes , Richard Hipkiss, J K Heydon, Francis Cunninghame, Angus Mackay , Benjamin Sutherland and other radicals, formed the Constitutional Association to press for democratic government. David Kemp in his book, Land of Dreams: How Australia Won Its Freedom, notes that the group initially formed to promote Robert Lowe as
361-476: Was within its pages that Lang looked to rehabilitate his reputation and to advance his case for election to the NSW Legislative Council . According to Baker, "Hawksley was so completely taken in that his careful, judicious leading article acquitted Lang of all charges against him." They published at least one literary work under the imprint Hawksley and Cunninghame: Raymond, Lord of Milan, a Tragedy of
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