OBITUARY: Hunter union giant Peter Barrack remembered

Ian Kirkwood
Updated January 27 2020 - 8:18am, first published 5:00am
A LIFE OF ACTIVISM: From top left, retiring in 2000; with right-wing union official Kevin Maher and John Howard; retired with his wife Di; and in 1989 after Newcastle's bid to build the Anzac frigates.
A LIFE OF ACTIVISM: From top left, retiring in 2000; with right-wing union official Kevin Maher and John Howard; retired with his wife Di; and in 1989 after Newcastle's bid to build the Anzac frigates.

ACCOLADES have begun to flow for Peter Barrack, the progressive activist and long-term Newcastle Trades Hall Council secretary, who died on Friday, aged 84.

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Ian Kirkwood

Ian Kirkwood

Journalist

Reporting journalist at the Newcastle Herald since 1987. Editorial writer, general reporter, industrial relations, industry and coal.

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