Adrian Graves
Adrian Graves is an economic and social historian who enjoyed a career in scholarship and administration at universities in England, Scotland and Australia. His political activism included the peace movement, Australian Indigenous rights, various anti-racist organisations including the anti-apartheid movement, and workplace trade unionism in both the UK and in Australia. He was Coordinator of the SEARCH Foundation between 2014 and 2018.[1]
"After the Referendum"
SEARCH Foundation Voice Truth Treaty Working Group (2024) published "After the Referendum: Learning from the fight for justice for Australia’s First Nations people" in December 2024.
Editorial Collective of the SEARCH Foundation Voice Truth Treaty Working Group: Jane Durie, Chris Elenor, Geoff Evans, Frank Panucci, Stephen Rix, Greg Strickland, Edward Tilton.
Other contributors to the publication:
Sam Altman, Martha Ansara, Ben Bartlett, Jim Crosthwaite, Deborah Durnan, Adam Farrar, Adrian Graves, Deborah Hartman, Paul Kaplan, Bob Makinson, Penny Sara, Rebecca Thompson, plus other activists and First Nations people who prefer not to be named.[2]
SEARCH National Members Forum, 2024
Members Discussion Session - Socialist Reponses to the crises and SEARCH’s Role
Our final session involves a report back from the breakout sessions by rapporteurs Matt Byrne, Elliot D'Arcy and Caitlin Perry, and then a roundtable of SEARCH members, facilitated by Brian Aarons, discussing socialist responses to the issues raised over the weekend. The roundtable features SEARCH members Louise Connor, Daren McDonald, Adrian Graves, Victoria Brookman, Rebecca Thompson and Bart Shteinman. That is followed followed by an open floor discussion, where once again members will have a chance to express their views.[3]
SEARCH board member
In 2018 Adrian Graves was SEARCH Foundation VP.
SEARCH Foundation 2018 AGM
Sydney attendees of SEARCH Foundation 2018 AGM included David Pink, Luke Whitington, Alan Anderson, Sam Altman, Rex Hewett, Gillian Workman, Carmen Blanco, Rachel Zeng, Nicholas Harrigan, Pat Ranald, Peter Murphy, John Poulos, Helen Hewett, Richard Walsham, Alice Strauss, Amalina Wallace, Cathy Crawley, Patrick Angel, Marcus Strom, Anthony McLaughlin, Adrienne Shilling, Dylan Griffiths, Chris Elenor, Paula Rix, Don Sutherland, David McKnight, Jesse Krause, Zac Gillies-Palmer, Ama Somaratna, Georgina Goddard, Holly Brooke, Victoria Brookman, Shannen Potter, Cian Galea, Lee Rhiannon, Russ Hermann, Masih Sadat Shafai, Leila Barreto, Bob Makinson, Sally Trevena, Cat Kutay, Adam Farrar, Daren McDonald, Adrian Graves, Evan Gray, Audrey McDonald.
2016 run
In 2016 Adrian Graves stood for the SEARCH Foundation board, nominated by Leonie Ebert and Don Jarrett.
SEARCH Foundation 2015 AGM
Sydney members who attended the SEARCH Foundation 2015 AGM included Brian Aarons, Sam Altman, Linda Burnett, Graham Chuck, Steve Cooper, Graham Drew, Chris Elenor, Adrian Graves, Ray Harrison, Tony Hawkins, Russ Hermann, Winton Higgins, Ron Marriott, Tom McDonald, Audrey McDonald, Daren McDonald, David Mendelssohn, Peter Murphy, Warwick Neilley, Declan O'Byrne, David Pink, Oliver Plunkett, John Poulos, Pat Ranald, Mark Stevens, Don Sutherland, Casey Thompson, Sally Trevena, Mick Tubbs, Richard Walsham, Jacqueline Widin, Lindsay Wood.
SEARCH Constitutional Sub-committee, 2017
Brian Aarons, Adrian Graves, Ama Somaratna, Jacqueline Widin, Peter Murphy, Amalina Wallace.
SEARCH Foundation
SEARCH Foundation leadership 2016, President: Jacqueline Widin Vice-President: Matt Kunkel Treasurer: Chris Elenor Committee members Tony Hawkins, Adrian Graves, Brian Aarons, David Pink Danae Bosler, Sally Trevena, Carmen Blanco.[4]
Bentley Effect
In 2015 SEARCH Foundation was involved in an Bentley Effect documentary by Brendan Shoebridge and Susie Forster.
With Adrian Graves, Professor Stewart Clegg, Naomi Klein.
SEARCH Environment Committee
SEARCH News September 2015 Sam Altman, Steve Bolt, Drew Hutton, Bob Makinson, David McKnight, Paul Norton, Jacqueline Widin, Brian Aarons, Vicki Findlay, Sally Trevena, Chris Elenor, and Adrian Graves.
SEARCH Foundation new members
In October 2014, the following people, including an unprecedented number of younger people, have joined: Peter Shalless, Mima Dean, Ian McComb, Brian Beer, Jean Curthoys, Mark Roberts, Philip Bain, Adrian Graves, Bronwyn Ridgway, Greg Brown, Kate Alway, Abe David, Emma Kerin, Sally Babidge, Rosemary Engel, Van Badham, Evan Gray, Jay Tharappel, Mark Taylor, Anna Amelia, Patrick Wright, Jeffrey Vongmany, Andrew Mason, Kieran Latty, Axeris Sondyre, Dylan Lloyd and Martina Nightingale.[5]