I joined the huge crowd who walked behind the hearse
carrying Col James to the Redfern Community Centre on Saturday 1st
March. Here a wonderful wake and
memorial service went on for hours as people celebrated the life of this great educator. A wide cross section of people – local Redfern
people, social justice activists, academics,
students and architects of all stripes - were there to honour the brilliant
life of this ‘quiet revolutionary’. One of the many great speakers asked would Sydney
University employ him if he applied for a job today? Probably not. Thank God they did back then. And he’s already in the history books. Vale
Col (‘make housing a verb’) James. SMH Obit.
