In May 1886, David Andrade, his brother Will and half a dozen others formed the Melbourne Anarchist Club[?] (MAC), the first anarchist organization in Australia. Andrade became the MAC secretary and one of its main propagandists.
The MAC produced the journal Honesty[?]. In a news agency at Brunswick and later in Liberty Hall, Russell St. Melbourne the brothers operated the first anarchist book shops in Australia.
Andrade's main works include Money: a study of the currency question[?] (1887), Our Social System[?] (n.d.), An Anarchist Plan of Campaign[?] (1888), and The Melbourne Riots and how Harry Holdfast and his Friends Emancipated the Workers[?] (1892).
In the early 1890s, Andrade was the secretary of the Unemployed Workers Association[?].
Andrade explains, "We are ruled by a lot of robbers. Our legislators are more degraded than a person who abuses a woman or a child and I have no confidence in them."
Andrade was burnt out in the disastrous 1898 fires[?]. He appears to have been financially ruined by this. In 1903, he was imprisoned at the Yarra Bend Asylum[?] and died in 1928 at the Ballarat Mental Asylum[?].
Andrade adds, "Socialism is a matter of justice. It acknowledges the rights of the poor to dignity and self determination, promulgating co-operation as the cure for the wrongs of capitalism."
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