Kim Windsor
Kim Windsor
Socialist Forum
There was also Stefano de Pieri (ministerial advisor to the Cain government and later a celebrity chef), Candy Broad (née Strahan), then administrator of the Labor Resource Centre, later chief of staff for Joan Kirner, a key figure in the founding of EMILY's List Australia, and a state minister in the Bracks and Brumby Victorian governments), Sara Charlesworth, Max Lorkin (AMWU official), Arthur Apted (now executive chairman of the Sustainable Agriculture Fund, a private investment fund that buys up rural property and manages farms), Bob Hogg (Hawke advisor, former Victorian ALP secretary and partner of Maxine McKew) and his then-wife Caroline Hogg (state MP), Andrew Dettmer (now Queensland AMWU secretary and state ALP president), Tony Lang (a partner at Slater & Gordon, now a Melbourne barrister and board member of the Victorian Council of Social Services), Shane Tregillis (later a capital-market regulator for the central bank of Singapore, then commissioner of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, now chief of the Financial Ombudsman Service), Evan Thornley (then president of the Melbourne University student union, later a McKinsey consultant, founding director of the activist group GetUp and thinktank Per Capita, chairman of the online advertising firm Looksmart, Victorian Labor MP and now CEO of the electric-car firm Better Place), Michael O'Connor (Gillard’s successor as president of the Australian Union of Students and now national CFMEU secretary), John Alford (Monash University student unionist, then a research officer at the Railways Union, author of Gramscian articles on ideology in the ALR, now professor of public management at Melbourne Business School), Ben Kiernan, Charlie D'Aprano (former CPA member and ex-husband of Women’s Liberation activist Zelda D'Aprano), Kim Windsor (then a researcher for the Labor Resource Centre, now operating a management and ‘strategic change’ consultancy), Douglas Kirsner (once a New Left ‘Freudo-Marxist’ philosopher, these days an executive board member of the B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation Commission), Grant Hehir (then a staffer to Labor-left MP Stewart West, now secretary of the Victorian Department of Treasury and Finance), Mark Burford (author of a 1983 article in the Journal of Political Economy called ‘Prices and Incomes Policy and Socialist Politics’, which argued that ‘socialists in the labour movement’ must support the Accord ‘as a policy that indeed has socialist components’, using it to pursue ‘socialist aims in the Australian setting’; later a senior administrator in the Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet under Jeff Kennett and Steve Bracks, and an advisor to Julia Gillard; now a management consultant at Nous Group, and a board member of the ‘progressive’ think-tank Centre for Policy Development) and Bruce Wilson.[1]
September 1984 Socialist Forum meeting
Socialist Forum September 12, 1984.
Present Eileen Chapman, Dave Davies, Peter Dyer, Julia Gillard, Bruce Hartnett, Debbie Kiers, Jenny Macklin, Sue Mountford, Bob Pease, Linda Rubinstein, Rob Reid-Smith, Mark Taft.
Apologies David Bunn, Max Ogden, Kerry Peake.
In attendance by invitation Tony Lang.
New members Annie Austin, Les Ayres, Lyn Bearlin, John Blackwell, Phillip Carswell, Helen Casey, Sara Charlesworth, Wally Curran, Margaret Davies, Jan Diner, Frank Dowsett, D. Excell, Phillip Elkins, Inga Fersterer, Sally Gardner, Arthur Greig, Rod Gudgion, Philip Herington, Leigh Hocking, Peter Holding, Alan Hough, David Knight, Stephen Lavender, Hugh McBride, Michael McKay, Jenny Macklin, Dorothy McManus, Neill Marshall, Steven Mathews, Meg Montague, Bill Mountford, Tony Nippard, Ewan Ogilvy, Deborah Olle, Michael Pitcher, John Reeves, Les Rosenblatt, Helen Schapper, John Sendy, Rosemary Simons, Charles Smith, Kerry Stubbings, Colin Sutherland, Gregory Thomas, Dominica Whelan, Kim Windsor, Trudy Wyse, Greg Pettiona.