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About Max Bound
- Max Alan Bound (5 October 1924 – 9 August 2012) was an Australian trade unionist and environmental activist. Bound left school at the age of thirteen and cycled through a variety of jobs as a coalminer, cleaner, tram conductor and labourer before the Communist Party of Australia, seeing his work setting up the Cobblers Club in Devonport, appointed him an unpaid organiser.
- Bound stood as a Communist for numerous elections and was often the sole Tasmanian to represent the party at federal elections.
- He was more broadly involved in the union movement, and was a key member of the small group of Tasmanian Trades & Labor Council delegates who opposed the building of the Franklin Dam.
- During the 1960s he vigorously opposed the Vietnam War and conscription, and around this time completed a Bachelor of Environmental Design at the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education.
- He was involved in the foundation of the Trade Union Community Research Centre, the Social Economic Ecological and Cultural Alliance, and the Social and Educational Research Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundation.
- In 2011 he published a book on political economy, Greed or Survival?, based on previously written papers.
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