Max Bound

Max Alan Bound (5 October 1924 – 9 August 2012) was an Australian trade unionist and environmental activist.

Bound left school at the age of thirteen and cycled through a variety of jobs as a coalminer, cleaner, tram conductor and labourer before the Communist Party of Australia, seeing his work setting up the Cobblers Club in Devonport, appointed him an unpaid organiser. Bound stood as a Communist for numerous elections and was often the sole Tasmanian to represent the party at federal elections. He was more broadly involved in the union movement, and was a key member of the small group of Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council delegates who opposed the building of the Franklin Dam. During the 1960s he vigorously opposed the Vietnam War and conscription, and around this time completed a Bachelor of Environmental Design at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. He was involved in the foundation of the Trade Union Community Research Centre, the Social Economic Ecological and Cultural Alliance, and the SEARCH Foundation.^[1]

SEARCH Foundation

Paul Adams, Max Bound, Rod Noble, John Poulos, Michael Tubbs and George Venturini were all authors and SEARCH Foundation members or supporters.

Tasmanian Times

Max Bound, Tim Thorne, John Biggs, Austra Maddox contributed an article to the Tasmanian Times, "Ecology, Health and Justice" November 28, 2010.^[2]

NOW WE THE PEOPLE

In July 2001, endorsers of the SEARCH Foundation's NOW WE THE PEOPLE conference in Sydney included Max Bound.

SEARCH Foundation, 1992, AGM

Proxies to SEARCH Foundation November 14, 1992 AGM.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Annette Cameron. SOUTH AUSTRALIA: David Thomason, Jack Humphrys, David Prendergast, Gwyneth Regione, Arthur Shertock, John Wishart, Hal Pritchard, Don Jarrett, Kay Alexiou, Glen Giles, Charlie Whomes, Jen Whomes, Leslie Millward, Roger Keyes, Elizabeth Johnston, David Winderlich, Brian Hackett. TASMANIA: Max Bound. VICTORIA: Richard Walsham, Olga Silver. ILLAWARRA: Sally Bowen, Doreen Gillam, Malcolm Andrews, Hilda Andrews, Bill Williams, Stan Wilson. SYDNEY: Edith Gilmour, Carol Aarons, Dom Syme, Kath Syme, Pat Healy, Lorna Gilmour. QUEENSLAND: Agnes Hall, Frank Bishop, Robert Bishop.

Broadside Weekly sponsors

Sponsorof the the Broadside Weekly listed in issue number 3, June 17, 1992, page 15 included Max Bound.

"It's time to act"

"It's time to act" was a 1991 statement calling for the formation of the New Left Party.

Tasmania sponsors were : Max Bound, Ros Harvey, Dennis Wild.

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.

Max Bound was among the list of sponsors.

Bulletin Number 2/86

The Broad Left Conference Bulletin Number 2/86

References

[1] [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Bound]

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