Kenneth Joseph Kenafick

Kenneth Joseph Kenafick was born on the 11^th April 1904; he died on the 26^th January 1982. He is also known with his pennames James Kennedy and Leo Conon; he is an Australian poet, author and an anti-conscription campaigner.

Kenneth Joseph Kenafick was born at the city of Norseman in the Western part of the country; he studied at the University of Western Australia for a Master of Arts in the year 1932. He became a teacher and studied at the Melbourne Teachers' College and teaching at high schools throughout Victoria.

Three volumes of his poetry that were written under the penname James Kennedy were published from the year 1935 to the year 1939. Kenneth Joseph Kenafick was a member of the Victorian Teachers' Union and the Australian Labor Party though he left to join the Maurice Blackburn in the year 1942, and there he became the secretary of the No Conscription Campaign from the year 1943 to the year 1946. Kenneth Joseph Kenafick retired in the year 1968 and relocated to the South Australia and he died at the Loxton in the year 1982.

Publications

Ø  Maurice Blackburn and the No-Conscription Campaign in the Second World War (1948)

Ø  The Australian Labour Movement in Relation to War, Socialism and Internationalism (1958)