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Jack Mundey, unionist, environmentalist, local government Councillor and former Secretary of the NSW Branch of the Builders Labourers Federation, describes his family background and early life in Atherton Tableland region, Qld.; early involvement with peace movement; joining the Builders' Labourers Federation; corruption; membership of Communist Party; militant rank and file; relations with Labor Party; industrial; social, political concerns of BLF; strikes, early 1970s; length of term of office for union officals; green bans; Kelly's bush; scab labour; BLF agreement with National Trust; urban environmentalism; bribery; BLF destabilisation; Norm Gallagher & demise of NSW BLF; Mundey's expulsion from BLF executive; composition of BLF membership; green ban movement; developer corruption; violence; deregistration of BLF; court action against Gallagher; Lundey's involvement in environmental movement; election to Sydney City Council; sacking of SCC, 1987; motor vehicles & greenhouse effect; involvement with Communist Party; capitalism; Gorbachev's resignation as General Secretary of the Communist Party; collapse of socialism; Stalin; nationalism.
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