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Wheels within Wheels is not about the wheels which drive your local bus, but the hidden wheels which have run Sydney's buses for many years:The wheels of politics - because transport has always been influenced by politicians, and not always for the right reasons.
The wheels of money - because too often public funds have been spent on unworthy causes.
But not all politicians made wrong decisions, and not all money invested in Sydney's buses was wasted.
Wheels within Wheels is the history of how Sydney's bus services developed and changed over six decades, including the story of how one bus owner stood up to the government, won five court cases in a row and got the law changed.
About the author
Peter Hughes is a poet, painter and the editor of Oystercatcher Press. His books include Nistanimera, The Summer of Agios Dimitrios and Allotment Architecture. His Selected Poems came out from Shearsman in 2013. This co-incided with the publication, by the same press, of 'An intuition of the particular': some essays on the poetry of Peter Hughes, edited by Ian Brinton. Hughes' versions of Petrarch's sonnets were published by Reality Street.
