Rod Noble
Rod Noble, an electrician by trade. Rod Noble worked at the Newcastle steelworks and for 15 years as Newcastle Trades Hall Council Research Officer before becoming an academic at the University of Newcastle in 1990. He was a founding member of the Newcastle People’s Chorus and is currently editor of Australian Socialist. Rod was a friend and comrade of Vera Deacon’s for more than 25 years.
He was active in the Communist Party of Australia, then with the SEARCH Foundation.
Anti-AUKUS
Rod Noble and Bruce Haigh.
Broad Left 30th Annual Red Flag event
Hunter Broad Left Invitation , 30th Annual Red Flag Event, Saturday 26 November 2022.
Barrack-Nichols Room, 2nd floor, Hunter Union Building, 408 King St, Newcastle.
This popular annual event enables progressive people from the region to get together for a relaxing and informative end of year celebration, followed by dinner afterwards at City West Club.
Guest Speaker: Professor Clinton Fernandes (UNSW)
Speaking on – The International Rules Based Order, AUKUS and Australia as a Sub-Imperial Power.
Entertainment by Newcastle People’s Chorus
Organised by Hunter Broad Left:
Labor Left ; SEARCH Foundation; Progressive Labour Party, Non-party Left.
Dianne Barrack, Carmen Blanco, Gil Bunn, Joan Dawson, Steve Kelly, Giles Martin, Judy Morley, Fran Munt, Rod Noble, Leigh Shears.[1]
Australian Socialist Editorial Collective
In 2019, the Australian Socialist Editorial Collective comprised: Ben Bartlett, Bob Boughton, George Campbell, Mike Donaldson, Rod Noble, Lars Norberg, Scott Poynting, Wayne Sonter, Bruce Toms, Chris Warren and Kathleen Weekley.
Postal Address: P.O. Box 45, Hamilton, Newcastle, NSW, Australia, 2303.
2018 Red Flag dinner
Melbourne activist and academic, Ms Alex Edney-Browne spoke at the Newcastle Red Flag Dinner on what she says are the increasing links between the weapons industry and Australian universities. She said universities were places that should teach the resolution of conflict through more peaceful means.
“Universities should not be doing research that contributes to the death of people,” Ms Edney-Browne said.
She said a number of Australian universities had embarked on joint ventures or partnerships with big weapons companies including Lockheed Martin, Thales, Raytheon and BAE. She said these companies liked to call themselves “defence” manufacturers but they were really about promoting war, not defence.
Hunter Broad Left spokesperson Rod Noble said: “This is very relevant to us here in Newcastle, given the proximity of the RAAF base at Williamtown and the links that the University of Newcastle has already established with the RAAF and some of the major companies,” Mr Noble said.[2]
SEARCH Foundation
Paul Adams, Max Bound, Rod Noble, John Poulos, Michael Tubbs and George Venturini were all authors and SEARCH Foundation members or supporters.
SEARCH Foundation Sydney
Apologies to the SEARCH Foundation 2014 AGM included Rod Noble .
SEARCH Foundation 2009 AGM
Proxies: The list of valid proxies received at the SEARCH office by 11am Eastern Summer Time on November 27, 2009 was read out:
Leonie Ebert, Pat Healy, Carmel Shute, Grahame McCulloch, Mark Aarons, Robyn Ravlich, John Varley, Martha Ansara, Gillian Workman, John Kaye, Lee Rhiannon, Carmen Blanco, Ray Harrison, Joe Palmada, Margaret Kirkby, Paula Rix, Kevin Cook, Janice Workman, George Zangalis, Russ Hermann, Chris Ray, Tristan Ewins, Brendan O'Kane, Pat Toms, Rod Noble, Peg Hewett, Cathy Crawley, Maurie Mulheron, Dave Ferguson, Judy Ferguson.
"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 Rod Noble.