John Fisher (Australian journalist)

John Fisher (7 June 1910 – 25 August 1960) was an Australian journalist and son of Prime Minister Andrew Fisher.

Fisher was born in

Egon Erwin Kisch, who was prohibited from entering Australia by the federal government (Kisch was to speak at a congress of the Movement Against War and Fascism). Fisher was involved in having the ban overturned and returned with Kisch to Europe in March 1935, helping to translate Kisch's Australian Landfall into English.^[1]

In 1935 Fisher settled in Moscow, where he worked on The Moscow News and wrote for International Literature. He travelled frequently to Brussels, London and Berlin and supported the Republicans in Spain, helping organise Australian support for the Spanish Republicans. He was assistant foreign editor for the Labor Daily and the communist Tribune until it was banned in May 1940. He unsuccessfully ran for Labor Party preselection for his father's old seat of Wide Bay, and at the 1940 federal election ran as a State Labor Party candidate for Hume, winning 4.9% of the vote. On 19 August 1941 he married Hansard stenographer Elizabeth Skelton in Sydney.^[1]

On 6 June 1942 Fisher left for

Adelaide and was buried in the cemetery in Centennial Park.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Inglis, Amirah (1996). "Fisher, John (1910–1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 19 December 2011.

[adb-1] Inglis, Amirah (1996). "Fisher, John (1910–1960)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Australian National University. Retrieved 19 December 2011.

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