Whynot street is a short street in the Brisbane suburb of West End. Former resident and poetry reader Bronwen Levy discusses the history of the street, and reads a poem Oodegeoo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) wrote about it.

Whynot Street
Officiously they hawked about
‘Petition’ to keep abos out,
And slavishly, without a peep,
The feeble yes-men signed like sheep.
And are we still the ousted, then,
And dare you speak for decent men?
This site was ours, you may recall,
Ages before you came at all.
‘No abos here!’ Why not, Whynot?
And if black-balling and boycott,
First black-ball pride and arrogance
Boycott this vile intolerance

Source: Kath Walker, “My People” (Milton, Jacaranda, 1970), p 16

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