Jozefa Sobski
Jozefa Sobski has been active in feminist, women’s and community organisations for many years. She started her activism in Sydney Women's Liberation in the 1970’s. She is currently Chair of the Board of Jessie Street National Women's Library and Vice President of the Haberfield Association. She was Convenor of WEL NSW for three years to 2016 and for a period from 2006-2010.
She was Convenor of WEL Australia from 2018-2019. She is a member of the TAFE Community Alliance. She was an inaugural member of the NSW Women in Education group and the Australian Women's Education Coalition. She is a qualified teacher of English and History and has a Masters in Adult Education. She worked in the Ministry of Education as a policy adviser on sexism and in TAFE in policy administration, as a Principal of a College and Director of South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE. She is a member of the National Foundation of Australian Women, Immigrant Women's Speakout Association and Emily's List.[1]
RADICALS Sydney Launch
May 20, 2021.
Despite a last-minute quasi-lockdown, a big mob of Sixties radicals and a bunch of their younger friends and supporters met at the Cypress Club on 6 May to celebrate RADICALS: Remembering the Sixties by Meredith Burgmann and Nadia Wheatley.
The book was launched by ‘Stompin at Maroubra’ Sixties icon Little Patty who said ‘The book is a mixed bag of great people – the best and the bravest – and they still have the fire in their bellies’.
That could also have described the assembled party-goers, who included three members of the 1965 Freedom Ride, four 78ers and many angry second wave feminists.
As well, there was Australia's first draft card burner Wayne Haylen QC (now a judge), the first woman elected to Federal Parliament from New South Wales, Jeannette McHugh, former Deputy Premier Carmel Tebbutt, and the first woman President of the Communist Party of Australia (in fact, first woman president of any political party in Australia) Judy Mundey. Also present was Jim Boyce, one of the seven Wallabies who refused to play the all-white, racially selected South African Springboks in 1971.
And let’s not forget Robbie Swan, Gary Williams, Jozefa Sobski, Bronwyn Penrith, Helen Voysey and John Derum, whose stories are told in the book.[2]
"STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS"
In April 1986 several hundred attendees of The Broad Left Conference in Melbourne signed an add in the National Times "STATEMENT REGARDING ABORIGINAL LAND RIGHTS".
Signatories included Jozefa Sobski.
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.
Jozefa Sobski was among the list of sponsors.