Vale, Bill Hartley

Bill Hartley died on the weekend, aged 75. He will be missed very much, by many people from across Australia and beyond. I shall miss him.

He came over to Victoria from Western Australia in the 1960s to head the Victorian branch of the ALP, and by the 1970s his name was synonymous with the socialist hardline group.

Above all, he was a passionate defender of workers' rights, a man who devoted his life to the labour movement.

Sympathy to Janet Elefsiniotis.