Rob Durbridge
Rob Durbridge was an Australian activist.Former llSEARCH Foundation President]], a founder of the Institute of Employment Rights and a former official of the Australian Education Union.
SEARCH Foundation
In 2013, Durbridge was President of the SEARCH Foundation.
Background
Rob Durbridge wass a part-time teacher, and formerly worked for the Australian Education Union as Federal Industrial Officer and Federal Secretary. He is a public school and TAFE teacher and an advocate for reform to end school privatisation in favour of quality public education and improved conditions for educators.
Durbridge was elected President of the SEARCH Foundation in 2008 and is particularly committed to the renewal of Left politics. He has been engaged in Left politics since the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s and joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1973, becoming the State Secretary in South Australia, a joint National Secretary and member of the CPA National Committee and a founding member of the SEARCH Committee on the CPA’s closure in 1991.[1]
Also a member of the New Left Party.
Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013
The SEARCH Foundation's Australian Left Renewal Conference, 2013, was held, the weekend of April 6-7, 2013,University of Technology Sydney.
Participatory Forum III
Strategic Priorities for the Left
- Panel: Rob Durbridge (SEARCH Foundation)
- Holly Creenaune (United Voice)
- Keelia Fitzpatrick (Victorian Trades Hall)
- Maurie Mulheron (NSW Teachers Fed)
- Senator Lee Rhiannon (NSW Greens)
- Senator Doug Cameron (ALP Socialist Left)[2][3]
75th anniversary of the CPA
75th anniversary of the Communist Party of Australia celebration in Melbourne, 21 October 1995.
Speaker John Halfpenny.
The Organizing Committee Rob Durbridge, Janna Thompson, David Ettershank, Richard Walsham, Peter Gibbons, Carmel Shute, Peter Weimar, Michael Evans, Sol Marks, Olga Silver, Louise Connor, Llewellyn Johns, Kate Kennedy, David Ettershank, Julius Roe, Rob Dunne.
"Livable Cities"
Rob Durbridge New Left Party, Joe Camilleri Rainbow Alliance, Jo Vallentine WA Greens.
NLP ACTU function
Roberta Moore, Rob Durbridge, Tom McDonald.
"It's time to act"
"It's time to act" was a 1991 statement calling for the formation of the New Left Party.
Melbourne sponsors were : Marian Aveling, Susan Barclay, Lynda Blundell, Laurie Carmichael, Frank Cherry, Ruth Crow, Mick Doleman, Rob Durbridge, Kiri Evans, Ralph Gibson, Angela Sdrinas, Carmel Shute, Theo Sidiropolous, Mike Sutherland, Jil Toovey, Rob Watts. .
CPA
In 1989 the Communist Party of Australia National Executive was Brian Aarons, Louise Connor, Rob Durbridge, Michael Evans, Warwick Neilley and Adrian Shackley.[4]
Bringing Roxby Down
Rob Durbridge with Catriona Steele
References
- ↑ Foundation, who we are, accessed Jan. 2, 2014
- ↑ Australian options, Australian Left Renewal Conference – secure jobs in a green future, Posted by Howard Guille on March 26, 2013
- ↑ Australian options, Australian Left Renewal Conference – secure jobs in a green future, Posted by Howard Guille on March 26, 2013
- ↑ [Tribune August 2 1989 page 11]