User:Lyn Gain

Lyn Gain was one of the youngest and last members of the Sydney Push in the days of the Royal George hotel in 1962, considerably prior to the influx of Kensington Libertarians led by Wendy Bacon in the late sixties. She worked for the NSW Council of Social Service for sixteen years, the last six (1989 to 1995) as the Director. In 2013 Lyn Gain wrote Witch Girl and the Push: Social history as you've never read it, which takes issue with many previous writings about the Push by outside commentators. Specifically this book argues that the relevance of Sydney Libertarian social theory has not been negated by feminism, post-modernism or the permissive society, and that a number of Push members are alive and well and active in social analysis. In reference to Alan Barcan's latest book, Lyn Gain says: "I do wish they would all stop saying that we are dead."