Here’s where to start with some Aquarius basics. Enjoy.
Rainbow Dreaming
A wonderful exhibition of Aquarian stories that live on!
Book from the exhibition: Prabhu, H., & Batterbury, G. (2013). Rainbow dreaming: tales from the age of aquarius (Aquarius Festival 40th anniversary edition ed.). Rainbow Collective.
Books about Aquarius
Jiggens, J. (1983). Rehearsals for the Apocalypse: Part one: the Aquarius Festival, May 12–22, 1973. J. Jiggens. A poetic evocation of the 1973 Aquarius Festival.
Smith, M., & Crossley, D. (1975). The Way Out: radical alternatives in Australia. Lansdowne. A compilation of writing including pieces by several Aquarians including Johnny Allen and Graeme Dunstan.
Writing about the Aquarian legacy
Bible, V. (2016). On Common Ground: Cultivating Environmental Peace: A History of the Rainbow Region [Doctoral Thesis, University of New England]. Armidale, NSW.
Bork, G. (2017). Walking the Reciprocal Restoration Talk, Rainforest, Eastern Australia [Southern Cross University]. Lismore, NSW. https://reciprocalrestoration.org
Burnam, B. (1987). Aboriginal Australia and the Green Movement. In D. Hutton (Ed.), Green politics in Australia : a collection of essays (pp. 91-104). Angus & Robertson.
Cock, P. (1979). Alternative Australia: Communities of the Future? Quartet Australia.
Derrett, R. (2008). Regional festivals : nourishing community resilience: the nature and role of cultural festivals in Northern Rivers NSW communities
Garbutt, R. (2019). Creating Space for Protest and Possibility: Nimbin, Australia, from 1973. Contention (Brooklyn, N.Y.), 7(1), 66-80. https://doi.org/10.3167/cont.2019.070106
Garbutt, R. (2014). Aquarius and Beyond: Thinking through the Counterculture. M/C Journal: A journal of media and culture, 17(6). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/911
Hale, Mandie.UNIQUE Creative Homes of Nimbin and Surrounds.
Kijas, J. (2011). Caravans & Communes: stories of settling in the Tweed 1970s & 1980s. Tweed Shire Council.
Marsh, V. (2014). The Evolution of a Meme Cluster: A Personal Account of a Countercultural Odyssey through The Age of Aquarius. M/C Journal, 17(6). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.888
Newton, J. (1988). Aborigines, Tribes and the Counterculture. Social analysis(23), 53-71.
Norst, M. J. (1999). A Warrior for Peace: Burnum Burnum. Kangaroo Press. With a story about Burnum Burnum’s relationship with the Aquarian community.
Ricketts, A., & Kia, A. (2018). Enabling Emergence: The Bentley Blockade and the Struggle for a Gasfield Free Northern Rivers. Southern Cross University Law Review, 19, 51-76. (S. Cross U. L. Rev.)
Rolls-Gordon, N. (2016). Where The Heart Is: What we can Learn about Social Sustainability from Intentional Communities [Southern Cross University]. Lismore, NSW.
Scantlebury, A. (2014). Black Fellas and Rainbow Fellas: Convergence of Cultures at the Aquarius Arts and Lifestyle Festival, Nimbin, 1973. M/C Journal: A journal of media and culture, 17(6). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/923
Seed, J., Macy, J., Fleming, P., & Naess, A. (1988). Thinking like a mountain: towards a council of all beings. New Society Publishers.
Shields, K. (2000). In the tiger’s mouth: an empowerment guide for social action.
Taylor, A. L. (1981). Retreat or Advance: new settlers and alternative lifestyles in the Rainbow Region. Dept of Geography, University of New England.
Wilson, H. (2003). Belonging in the Rainbow Region: cultural perspectives on the NSW North Coast. Southern Cross University Press.
Podcasts and Media
Kendell, J., & Tait, P. (1995). Nearly normal Nimbin. Gaia Films.
Richmond-Tweed Oral History Group – Under the Rainbow
Shoebridge, B. (2016). The Bentley effect : the story of a social movement.
Shostak, S. (2015). Mullumbimby’s Madness: The Legacy of the Hippies. Mullumbimby, NSW, Brunswick Valley Historical Society.