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		Creator		Healy, Kevin, 1909-
		Title		Kevin Healy - papers, 1937-1999
		Level of Description		Collection
		Date of Work		1937 - 1999
		Type of Material		Textual Records
		Call Number		MLMSS 6918
		Physical Description		1 box - 0.13 Meters Textual Records Textual Records - (computer printouts) Textual Records - (photocopy) Textual Records - (typescript) Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy) Textual Records - (typescript, processed) Textual Records - (typescript, carbon) Clippings Clippings - (photocopy) Textual Records - (printed)
		Administrative / Biographical Note		Kevin Martin Healy was born in Fremantle, Western Australia, in 1909. Two years later his father returned to his native Ireland with the family. Healy returned to Western Australia in the late 1920s. Among a succession of labouring jobs, he was a shed hand during the 1930 shearers' strike at Carnarvon. He joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1937. In 1949, as Chairman of the Party's West Australian State Committee, he was charged with sedition under the Crimes Act 1914-1942. He was subsequently acquitted after having prepared his own defence. Healy moved to N.S.W. in the early 1950s. He worked at Mort's Dock until its closure late that decade. In 1992 he founded the Ryde Aboriginal Interest Group to raise an awareness of Aboriginal contributions to Ryde City during the municipality's bicentennial celebrations. He is married to artist and peace activist Evelyn Healy.
		Contents		Papers including his 1949 sedition trial in Western Australia, including copies of case documents from Australian Archives; correspondence with, among others, his parents, 1937-1939; J. D. Blake, 1949, 1998; Laurence W. Maher, 1987; and D. W. Mcleod, 1989, concerning supplies of the author's book How the west was won : the native question in the development of Western Australia (1984); and copies of letters of Evelyn Healy; 'Eureka and the Communist Inheritance', being biographical notes on Kevin Healy, compiled by Anne Beggs Sunter, 19-20 Apr. 1997; and newscuttings and printed material
		Source		Presented by Kevin Healy in 1999


		Author/Artist		Blake, J. D. (John David), 1909- Healy, Evelyn, 1912- Maher, Laurence W. McLeod, D. W. (Donald William) Sunter, Anne Beggs
		Subject		Communists -- Western Australia. Trials (Sedition) -- Western Australia.