Amazon Acres
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Amazon Acres was a separatist feminist commune that operated in northern New South Wales, Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. Amazon Acres was ruled by consensus which participants admitted was challenging.[1][2]
The commune was governed by the Three Ms:[1][3]
- No men
- No meat
- No machines.
Like most other separatist feminist communes Amazon Acres ultimately failed, partly because the vast majority of young women who were brought up in the commune chose to leave during their teenage years and return to normal society.[1][4]
Amber Jackson spent most of her childhood in the commune. She describes the freedom and independence of the commune. This, though, was an illusion as she also sites the lack of self-sufficiency for its closure.[5]