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Foreword to the above booklet : Wikipedia that bastion of truth, devotes over half of its entry for Tecoma to the McDonalds controversy. History can explain the present and capturing that present makes for a better future. While Tecoma remains immersed in its David and Goliath struggle with multinational McDonalds, photographers Glenn Stephenson and John Weeks have captured our present with prescience and sensitivity.

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High Resvolution, the exhibition presents but a fraction of their works, but what is there cuts through to the personal, the idiosyncratic account.

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Their images reveal who we are and how we relate to the world now. But is there anything in our past that hinted at why small town Tecoma of all small towns would become the David in the struggle with the corporate giant McDonalds? We have selected a tiny portion of Charles Hammond's collection from the State Library of Victoria to provide some hint of how we might have got here. There is something of the cultivated larrikan in Charlie Hammond. The moving record of his life with 'sweetheart' Gussie, his delightful illustrations of early Tecoma, garden birds and long-gone tea parties reverberate still.

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Even his concrete garden creatures provide an echo for the Tecoma gnomes. We thank all our contributors. Glenn Stephenson, John Weeks, all the other photographers, Charles Hammond Collection from the State Library of Victoria.

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A Thank You, as stated in the booklet :

Thank you Glenn Stephenson, John Weeks and all the other contributors for the photography, to the Tecoma 8 for their bravery and to all the community who have given their time, their money and their love in a hundred creative ways to protect the Dandenong Ranges from corporate domination