How to make trouble and influence people: Pranks, hoaxes, graffiti and political mischef-making from across Australia

Iain McIntyre's book How To Make Trouble And Influence People describes the secret ludic history of creative troublemaking in Australia over two centuries. It began as a series of zines and is now published by Breakdown Press to impress new readers and inspire new acts of defiance.

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