Ken Gott
Kenneth Davidson Gott (22 February 1922 – 12 March 1990) was one of the leading left wing activists in Melbourne in the decades after World War Two. Along with Stephen Murray-Smith (1922–1988) he was a student leader and member of the University branch of the Communist Party of Australia in the 1940s. Career Gott commenced studies at the University of Melbourne in 1941 joining the Melbourne University Regiment on 6 December, the day of the bombing of Pearl Harbour by the Japanese. He was given approval to return to his studies, and was later declared unfit for active service. He subsequently worked in a number of unskilled jobs, and casual work at the Melbourne Herald newspaper, as well as research for trade unions. In 1950 he travelled overseas to Prague, to head the International Union of Students weekly news service. Gott left Czechoslovakia, and was expelled from the Communist Party, disillusioned by the 1956 Russian invasion of Hungary and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's terror. However, he remained a political activist assisting the Communist Party press and undertaking research on behalf of the Australian Labor Party and took a significant role in subverting the Communist efforts to manipulate the 1959 ANZ