Bruce Hartnett
Bruce Hartnett
The Broad Left Conference
The Communist Party of Australia, Association for Communist Unity and others organized The Broad Left Conference, which was held 1986 28th-31st March, at the NEW SOUTH WALES INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Broadway, Sydney.
Bruce Hartnett was among the list of sponsors.
Socialist Forum
Prominent members of the Socialist Forum included Julia Gillard (former president of the Australian Union of Students), Jenny Macklin, Bernie Taft and Mark Taft (the latter is now a Victorian County Court judge), Bill Mountford (then an AMWU research officer and CPA admin officer, appointed director of the Australian Manufacturing Council by John Button in 1988, later a partner at Arthur Andersen, CEO of the Victorian WorkCover Authority, and now a commissioner at the Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commisson), Bruce Hartnett (now chairman of the Victorian State Services Authority and a trustee of several superannuation funds), his wife Louise Einfeld, Linda Rubinstein (a member of the CPA national executive, later a senior ACTU industrial officer, now manager of pro-bono work at Holding Redlich, and also a director of several industry superannuation funds), Wally Curran, Sue Mountford, Max Ogden (a long-time AMWU official and CPA member, eventually director of Melbourne University’s Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development), Philip Hind (then a director of the Australian Association for Armed Neutrality), Jim Frazer (Victorian secretary of the Australian Railways Union and a former CPA member), and Vern Hughes (later a co-founder of Stephen Mayne’s People Power and a ‘research scholar’ at the Centre for Independent Studies).
Socialist Forum comrades
Socialist Forum AGM November 25, 1987.
Present Ross Adamson, John Alford, Margaret Davies, Pier De Carlo, Peter Dyer, Lesley Ebbels, Liz Fyfe, Julia Gillard, Bruce Hartnett, Philip Hind, Jane Hollingshead, Vern Hughes, Gerry Kitchener, Max Lorkin, John Mathews, Rivkah Mathews, Bette Moore, Phil O'Donoghue, Max Ogden, Harry Parsons, Steve Prytz, Julia Pullen, Candy Strahan, Hal Swerissen, Bernie Taft, Mark Taft, Michael White, Lindsay Woods, Trudy Wyse.
Apologies Arthur Apted, Mark Burford, Sarah Charlesworth, Dave Davies, Leigh Hocking, Sue Mathews, Gerard Mullaly, Elizabeth Parsons, Rob Reid Smith, Linda Rubinstein, Meredith Sussex, Col Sutherland.