Stan Sharkey
Stan Sharkey died in June 2024, aged 91.
NLP Debt Seminar
Frank Stilwell, Pat Ranald, Laurie Aarons, Stan Sharkey and Sue McCreadie.
"It's time to act"
"It's time to act" was a 1991 statement calling for the formation of the New Left Party.
Sydney sponsors were : Brian Aarons, Allan Ashbolt, Charles Bowers, Christine Brunt, Jack Cambourn, Peter Cantrill, Denis Fitzgerald, Larry Hand, Beverley Hewett, Robin Hopwood, Betty Hounslow, Sonia Laverty, Carol Matthews, Peter McClelland, Audrey McDonald, Daren McDonald, Tom McDonald, Brian McGahen, Stacey Miers, Jack Mundey, Warwick Neilley, Cristina Pastore, Wally Pritchard, Pat Ranald, Tanya Ritchie, Noeline Rudland, Stan Sharkey, David Simpson, Joyce Stevens, Frank Stilwell, Jenepher Surbey, Dom Syme, Margaret Thornton, Ted Wheelwright, Juana Zepeda, Jorge Zepeda, Tom Zubrycki.
Broadside Weekly sponsors
Sponsors of the the Broadside Weekly listed in issue number 3, June 17, 1992, page 15 included Stan Sharkey.
Broad Left Weekly sponsors
160 people sponsored the Broad Left Weekly in a pamphlet published in the January 30 1991 Tribune - including Stan Sharkey.
Stan Sharkey
"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 Stan Sharkey.
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.
Stan Sharkey was among the list of sponsors.
ACU
In 1983, Prime Minister Bob Hawke's newly elected Labor government introduced the Prices and Incomes Accord, with the support of trade union officials from the CPA. The accord was an agreement between the federal government and the Australian Council of Trade Unions that limited unions engaging in industrial action for better wages and conditions, in return for promised increases to the "social wage".
The SPA and other left groups correctly opposed the accord as a tool for driving down workers' wages and living standards, while shackling unions.
A large group of SPA union officials, however, disagreed with the party's anti-accord position. They preferred to side with the Hawke government and ALP and CPA union officials in implementing the anti-worker accord.
A handful of these pro-accord officials were expelled from the SPA in 1983. A series of resignations from the SPA soon followed.
The split was mainly concentrated in NSW. The union officials who left the SPA included Pat Clancy, Bill Brown, Tom McDonald and Stan Sharkey from the Building Workers' Industrial Union (BWIU). Others were Pat Geraghty from the Seamen's Union of Australia (SUA), Tom Supple, Merv McFarlane and Wal Jennings from the Waterside Workers' Federation (WWF) and Don Henderson and John Garrett from the Firemen and Deckhands Union (FDU).
Numerous Maritime Unions Socialist Activities Association members also joined the avidly pro-Moscow and pro-accord Association for Communist Unity (ACU) that was formed by Clancy, Brown, McDonald and Sharkey in 1984.