Kenneth Kenafick

Background

Kenafick was born at Norseman in Western Australia, and studied at the University of Western Australia for a Master of Arts (1932).

Career

Three volumes of his poetry, written under the pseudonym James Kennedy, were published in 1935-1939. He was Secretary of its successor, the League for Freedom, for many years. He retired in 1968 and moved to South Australia, and he died at Loxton in 1982.

Membership

He was a member of the Victorian Teachers" Union and the Australian Labor Party, although he broke away from the party in support of Maurice Blackburn in 1942, becoming secretary of the Number Conscription Campaign from 1943 to 1946.

Connections

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