Significant People

In 1970, the NSW Government planned to knock down all the old buildings in The Rocks and build skyscrapers there instead. This plan was fought by the local community who lived there, who did not want their houses destroyed. They asked Jack Mundey to help them fight the Government. Jack was the leader of a builders union so he could tell all his builders not to work on the government's plan to destroy The Rocks. At the time, Jack was not following the government's plan so he was doing something illegal and was arrested. Jack won the fight and today we know that Jack had the right idea to save all the old building. He has been commemorated (remembered) by plaques, memorials and a place in The Rocks Named after him.