Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever
- Written by Jeanti St Clair, Lecturer in Journalism, Southern Cross University
A scene at the first Aquarius Festival, Nimbin, 1973. Flickr/Harry Watson Smith, CC BY-SA
In the north-east corner of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales is a small former dairying and banana farming community. Today, however, that village is unrecognisable.
Nimbin is now widely acknowledged as Australia’s...