In 14 May 1886, David Andrade, his brother Will and half a dozen others formed the Melbourne Anarchist Club, the first anarchist organisation in Australia. Andrade became the club secretary and one of its main propagandists.
The Melbourne Anarchist Club produced the journal Honesty, an Australian organ of anarchism which had substantially the same principles as those championed by Benjamin Tucker's Liberty.[3] In a news agency at Brunswick, now an inner suburb of Melbourne, and later in Liberty Hall, Russell St. Melbourne the brothers operated the first anarchist book shops in Australia. Andrade was a vegetarian and with his brother operated the first vegetarian restaurant in Melbourne.[4]
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).
He became a settler with his family at Fern Tree Gully. However, bush fires destroyed everything around 1898. He was admitted to the Yarra Bend Asylum, with his wife and four children left without support.[5] On 1 December 1903, he was admitted to the Ballarat Hospital for the Insane. According to hospital records, at the time he was "in good bodily health and suffered from delusional insanity." He became gradually weaker from old age in his final years, and died at the hospital on 23 May 1928. The cause of death was found to be senility and heart failure.[6][7] He was buried on 25 May at St Kilda Cemetery.[8]
^Andrade, David A. "What is Anarchy?". Liberty #100. pp. 6–8. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
^Reeves, Andrew. David Alfred Andrade (1859–1928). Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
^McElroy, Wendy (2003). "Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, and Individualist Anarchism". The Debates of Liberty: An Overview of Individualist Anarchism, 1881–1908. Oxford: Lexington Books. p. 7. ISBN0-7391-0473-X.
^Scates, Bruce. (1997). A New Australia: Citizenship, Radicalism and the First Republic. Cambridge University Press. p. 22. ISBN0-521-57296-7
^Reeves, Andrew, "David Alfred Andrade (1859–1928)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, retrieved 18 April 2022
Melbourne's Radical Bookshops by John Sendy, (1983) International Bookshop Pty Ltd
A Reader of Australian Anarchism 1886–1896 by Bob James (1979) No ISBN
Anarchy by David Andrade in Honesty, Melbourne, February 1889, published in Anarchism in Australia: An Anthology 1886–1986 edited by Bob James, Melbourne (1986) No ISBN
