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George Zangalis was born in Greece in 1931, the fourth in a
family of five children. He grew up and did his secondary education during
the Resistance of the Greek people and his own family against the German
occupation and the Anglo-American imposed civil war.
He came to Australia in
February 1950. He became immediately involved in the working class and
progressive organisations in the Greek community , the wider Australian
Labour Movement and the fledgling multicultural campaigns, a commitment he
keeps to this day.
He worked at first in the car industry, then as a political organiser for
the Communist Party of Australia and since 1970, until his retirement in
1996, in the Victorian Railways and the Australian Railways Union where in
1975 he was elected fulltime organiser, and in 1988 president.
He has been a foundation member and leading official of the Ethnic
Communities Council of Victoria, the Federation of Ethnic Communities
Councils of Australia, and Community Broadcasting.
He served for several years on the ABC State and National Advisory Council
and the SBS board in the early 1980’s.
He is currently president (and a current affairs broadcaster) of Melbourne’s
ethnic communities radio station 3ZZZ, and president of the National Ethnic
and Multicultural Broadcasters’ Council of Australia.
He is married to Cavell Zangalis. They have two children, Paul and Vasso and
two grand children. |
