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Life Summary

Name	Leonard Phillips Fox
Born	28 August, 1905 Malvern, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died	3 January, 2004 (aged 98) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Religious Influence	Congregational Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Fox, Helen Irene (mother) Fox, David Henry (father) Porker, Louise Helen (sister) Fox, Carol Margery (sister) Halfpenny, Frances Rosetta (sister) Porker, Murray Gladstone (brother-in-law) Halfpenny, Albert John (brother-in-law) Fox, Solomon Alexander (uncle) Fox, Violet (aunt by marriage) Fox, Rosetta (grandmother) Fox, Alexander (grandfather) Fox, Charles Philip (cousin) Cartwright, Rosetta Fairthorne (cousin) McCance, Dorothy (cousin) Fox, Lionel (cousin) Fox, Victor (cousin) Fox, Philip Moerlin (cousin) Schneider, Shirley Laura (cousin) McWilliams, Robert George (colleague) Bandler, Ida Lessing Faith (acquaintance)
Education *	Scotch College (Melbourne) (student, 1919-1923) University of Melbourne (student, 1924-1927)
Occupation or Descriptor *	communist (1935-1970) New South Wales, Australia Indigenous rights activist/supporter (1935-2004) New South Wales, Australia contemporary-affairs commentator (1940-1970) New South Wales, Australia journalist (1940-1970) New South Wales, Australia pamphleteer (1940-1980) New South Wales, Australia political activist (1940-2004) New South Wales, Australia painter (1950-1980) New South Wales, Australia poet (1950-1990) New South Wales, Australia newspaper editor (1958-1970) New South Wales, Australia socialist (1970-2004) New South Wales, Australia autobiographer/memoirist (1980-1997) New South Wales, Australia
Key Events *	referendum on Indigenous rights (1967) (activist supporting it) Spanish Civil war, 1936-39 (supported Republicans)
Key Organisations *	Melbourne University Rifles (member) Movement Against War and Fascism (member, 1934) Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (member, 1958)
Political Activism *	Communist (activist, 1935-1970)
Workplaces *	Scotch College (Melbourne) (schoolteacher, 1928-1932) Progress (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1940-1945) Soviets Today (Sydney) magazine (editor, 1940-1940) Tribune (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1946) Common Cause (Sydney) newspaper (journalist, 1958-1970) Common Cause (Sydney) newspaper (editor, 1965-1970)

* Dates are approximate