Some brief notes. Largely incomplete.
An anarchist bookshop started in 1997, and closed up 2016 (according to a facebook post). But according to this they have been running for 25+ years? They have been working with Tutu and Little Fish Art Gallery (political status unknown).
There is another unrelated Canadian(?) bookshop with the same name.
Their "temporary" blog (was quite permanent)
https://blackrosenewtown.wordpress.com/
Last available snapshot of their old site before they began redirecting people to wordpress
https://web.archive.org/web/20131202205454/http://www.blackrosebooks.org/
Their Facebook page still up
https://www.facebook.com/groups/522569864428087/buy_sell_discussion
First archived in 1999. Their first event appears to have happened in 1997. Was a movement aimed at reusing the streets for parties and pedestrian use.
https://web.archive.org/web/19990203102934/http://members.xoom.com/sydneyrts/
Website later found on CAT.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061011205919/http://www.cat.org.au/rts/
An anarchist group. Also known as CAT or cat@lyst. Started in 1994, hosted on Axxs, and existed until about 2012. Lots of information hidden in the sidebar. Final archive before the site was removed:
https://web.archive.org/web/20120513002058/http://www.cat.org.au/
The site before 2007 can be found here (which looked quite different to the previous link)
https://web.archive.org/web/20061010173147/http://www.cat.org.au/main.html
The final announcement before the switch to the new 2007 site can be found here
Older archives show a mirror was hosted by S. Fraser on a University of Sydney server. A plethora of old links can be found there (as well as the standard site). Lists Black Rose as a point of contact.
Their new 2007 site seems to only have lasted a few years (until 2009), and included for a brief period an archive to post Predator's old site. Majority of posts after made by a user with the handle "Stacy".
https://web.archive.org/web/20091010083046/http://cat.org.au:80/~predator/
CAT seems to have had their fingers in everything (IWW, STUCCO, Cave Clan, RTS, Indymedia, to name a few)
Project by CAT. Listed events for cities in Australia and provided links to indymedia. A huge list of activist groups in Sydney can be found under the groups section, with a total listing of 262 groups before the last archive in Jan 2008 (tho some listings appear to be spam?)
https://web.archive.org/web/20071115202708/http://active.org.au/sydney/
A project with a similar name (possibly the same project) but different url and with a youth liberation edge existed as well.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991006020203/http://www.activate.8m.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20020926143914/http://www.activate.8m.com:80/
Another project by CAT. Website for independent media. Latest working archive is from 2008. Did not last nearly as long as the Australian indymedia site (which stopped in 2015).
https://web.archive.org/web/20081009060713/http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/
A server funded by NetAxxs at least until around 2011.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110624210300/http://axxs.org/
They seem to have an older geocities website which links to their "main site" that ceased to exist after 1999.
https://web.archive.org./web/19990427040807/http://web.access.net.au/%7Eaxxs/index.htm
A website is still up, seemingly reminiscing.
Created in 2004. FOSS workers collective for front+backend web development. Member of Open Source Industry Australia (osia.net.au / osia.com.au) and Engage Media (engagemedia org)
https://web.archive.org/web/20110218035429/http://www.netaxxs.com.au/about.php
There seemed to have been a hack that affected cat.org.au and axxs.org around 2010 (as well as hardware failure in 2009). Website got considerably more corporate/casual looking from 2012 onwards:
https://web.archive.org/web/20220125192851/https://netaxxs.com.au/
The website is still up however it is now replaced with a black rose and a picture of a dog.
Still available (but no events listed). Was functional at least until 2016, and was an activist calendar similar to the contemporary Green Left Activist calendar we have nowadays (greenleft.org.au/events))
https://web.archive.org/web/20160322182354/http://burntout.squat.net/
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