People Australia

9 October, 1936
Willoughby, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

8 April, 1996 (aged 59)
Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

cancer (leukemia)

• Catholic

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.

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• Doyle, James (colleague)

• Marist Brothers' College (Mosman, Sydney) (student, 1949-1951)

• wool classer (1951-1954) New South Wales, Australia
• shearer (1954-1958) New South Wales, Australia
• trade union official (1958-1963) South Australia, Australia
• labour party organiser (1963-1974) South Australia, Australia
• political activist (1963-1974) South Australia, Australia
• labour politician (1974-1988) Federal, Australia
• Member of Lower House (1974-1988) Federal, Australia
• business agent (1988-1996) New South Wales, Australia

• Officer of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1990)

• Mick Young Scholarship Trust (eponym)

• Australian Workers' Union (SA) (organiser, 1954-1963)
• Eureka Youth League (NSW) (member, 1954-1957)
• Broken Hill Pastoral Workers' Committee (NSW) (secretary, 1956)
• Parliament of Australia (House Reps - member, 1974-1988)
• Multicultural Advisory Council (chair, 1994-1996)

• anti-nuclear activist (politician)
• ALP (SA) (organiser, 1963-1974)

• ALP (federal) (politician, 1974-1988)