Perth Indymedia

Jack Mundey. Leader of the NSW branch of the Builders Labourers' Federation. Member of the Communist Party of Australia. On first blush, hearing that bio, one might take him to be an obscure figure, a man of little consequence. Yet he played a monumental role in post-war Australian history, and his impact on modern environmental politics is arguably without parallel. Mundey passed away earlier this month. Indymedia's Raymond Grenfell had the opportunity earlier this morning to speak to Professor Verity Burgmann, Adjunct Professor of Politics in the School of Social Sciences at Monash University, and co-author of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activism and the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation.