Bob Pringle (trade unionist)
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Bob Pringle (11 August 1941 – July 1996) was a left-wing activist and construction worker in the Builders Labourers Federation who was active in left-wing campaigns in the 1960s and 1970s in New South Wales.[1]
Robert Arthur Pringle was born in Toowoomba, Queensland on 11 August 1941.[2]
He helped the green bans, Aboriginal Tent Embassy and protests against the Springboks. He drowned while swimming in 1996.[3][4] A wake was held in Harold Park Hotel, and his funeral service was held on 7 August 1996. He was survived by his step-daughter Jane.[5]
