Margo Moore
Margo Moore was part of the collective which set up CONTROL the abortion referral service and then Leichhardt and Liverpool Women’s Health Centres in the early 1970s, and later a member of the Communist Party of Australia.[1]
Marrickville CPA
Betty Hounslow was a socialist feminist and a member of the Socialist Lesbians, later Socialist Lesbians and Male Homosexuals. She was briefly a supporter of the Trotskyist Communist League, then joined the Communist Party of Australia from the 1980s until it was wound up in 1991. Betty was an original member of the Marrickville Branch of the CPA and along with Joyce Stevens, Margo Moore and others, engaged and furthered socialist feminism activism within and outside the party.
CPA Gay Collective
In the 1980s Geoff Evans was aware of gay activists in the CPA – Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen. Evans then became organiser for the Sydney District of the CPA. He was interested in supporting communists in the gay movement and the CPA Sydney Branch had formed a homosexual collective. Geoff joined the group to provide support for a central human rights struggle, but as a straight man. His friend and housemate, Marilyn McCormack and Kim Back, an ex-lover were members, plus Lance Gowland, Brian McGahen, Barry Power, Graham Chuck and Peter Murphy. The collective was relatively small – about 8 – 10 people. It discussed politics in the gay movement, sexism among gay men, the politics of lesbian separatism. Perhaps Joyce Stevens, Margo Moore attended – there was an overlap between the gay and women’s collectives.[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 Margo Moore.