Background
Aarons was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but was brought up in Sydney. He is the son of the late Laurie Aarons, former secretary of the Communist Party of Australia.
Aarons was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but was brought up in Sydney. He is the son of the late Laurie Aarons, former secretary of the Communist Party of Australia.
He was educated at Fairfield Boys High School and North Sydney Boys High School.
He was a political adviser to NSW Premier Bob Carr. Mark Aarons" activism started at North Sydney Boys High School in the mid-1960s especially in organising students to protest the Vietnam War. His 1986 American Broadcasting Company radio documentary series ‘Nazis in Australia’ prompted the Hawke government’s inquiry into war criminals and formation of Special Investigations Unit.
Mark Aarons was a member of the Communist Party of Australia from 1969 to 1978, and a Young Communist organiser in 1977.